RT Article
T1 Medical crowdfunding and the virtuous donor
JF Bioethics
VO 33
IS 2
SP 238
OP 244
A1 Moore, Bryanna
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1727521854
AB Patients and families are increasingly turning to crowdfunding to help them cover the cost of medical care. The ethics of crowdfunding has garnered some attention in the bioethical literature. In this paper I examine an ethical aspect of medical crowdfunding (MCF) that has received limited attention: the role of donors. I defend a virtue ethical approach to analyzing the role of donors in MCF. Vicious donation, where donors do not exercise the relevant virtues, can compound some of the ethical risks associated with MCF, as seen in the several recent, high-profile cases. My primary contention in this paper is that encouraging donors to think about how donating to a particular campaign would measure against the virtues I outline could help to discourage acts of ethically problematic donation to MCF campaigns.
K1 Distributive Justice
K1 Donation
K1 medical crowdfunding
K1 role-differentiated ethics
K1 Virtue Ethics
DO 10.1111/bioe.12527