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GoFailMe

The Unfulfilled Promise of Digital Crowdfunding

By: Erik Schneiderhan,Martin Lukk

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GoFailMe

The Unfulfilled Promise of Digital Crowdfunding

By: Erik Schneiderhan,Martin Lukk

The gaping holes in the U.S. and Canadian social safety nets mean that many people live in a state of financial precarity that can instantly become untenable in the face of another big expense, such as a large medical bill or damaged property. Historically, people have turned to their communities, neighbors, families, and loved ones for help in these situations. Today, asking for money on the internet through crowdfunding is among the most popular ways of seeking and donating to charity, and for-profit enterprises have realized that tapping into this instinct for helping is extremely good business. GoFailMe reveals how these sites, most notably GoFundMe, enjoy massive revenue, without providing the help they promise. They fail most of their users while putting them through an emotional rollercoaster and using sneaky tactics to obscure that reality. With unprecedented access to interviews, surveys, and hundreds of thousands of crowdfunding cases across North America, Erik Schneiderhan and Martin Lukk take on pressing questions with critical insight: When do we turn to others for help? Who succeeds and who fails in the digital crowd? Whom do these sites benefit? Ultimately, the failure of GoFundMe and others is emblematic of the inability of the for-profit sector and Big Tech to engineer an end to social inequality.

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Stanford University Press

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1503636933

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The Medical Formulary of Al-Samarqandi

And the Relation of Early Arabic Simples to Those Found in the Indigenous Medicine of the Near East and India

By: Martin Levey,Noury Al-Khaledy

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The Medical Formulary of Al-Samarqandi

And the Relation of Early Arabic Simples to Those Found in the Indigenous Medicine of the Near East and India

By: Martin Levey,Noury Al-Khaledy

The Medical Formulary of Al-Samarqandi demonstrates the high development of pharmacology by the Arabs in the Middle Ages. It was far from a dark period in science for it was in this area, as well as in Arabic optics and chemistry, that experimental science first began to develop. This is shown by al-Samarqandi's work which describes many new drugs, chemical processes, and a more advanced pharmacological theory. No part of this work has ever before been brought to the notice of historians of medicine. For the first time, the authors give a complete translation of this Aqrâbōdhīn in order to present a complete picture of the pharmacological knowledge of the day. There is a comprehensive section of Notes and Comments with particular attention being drawn to the present-day usage of old Arabic drugs, the employment of the drugs in the much earlier al-Kindi Medical Formulary, and to the etymological discussion of Arabic plant names not studied in previous works on the subject. Finally there is a Glossary of Arabic-English terms and a selected Bibliography.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1512803928

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9781512803921

GoFailMe

The Unfulfilled Promise of Digital Crowdfunding

By: Erik Schneiderhan,Martin Lukk

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GoFailMe

The Unfulfilled Promise of Digital Crowdfunding

By: Erik Schneiderhan,Martin Lukk

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The Medical Formulary of Al-Samarqandi

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