Rural Health Care Delivery Modern China from the Perspective of Disease Politics /
Diseases are everyday, ordinary occurrences intimately related to people’s daily lives. However, as the metaphor of the “Sick Man of East Asia” emerged against the backdrop of a weak modern China, health care and the curing of diseases were turned into grand state politics with far-reaching implicat...
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Introduction
- The Double Meaning of the “Sick Man of East Asia” and China’s Politics
- Presentation, Discourse, and Absence
- Rural Health Care Delivery and State Building
- The Structure and the Content of this Book
- Part II: The Emerging Concept of Hygiene and Medicine from the State Perspective
- National Defense and Hygiene
- Abolishment of Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Rural Medical Care Delivery: The Experiment and Follow-up in Ding Country
- Part III: The People’s Medical Care: A Brand New State and the Guideline for Health Care
- State of “the People”
- Guidelines for Health Care Services
- Part IV: The Political Aspect of Hygiene: The Patriotic Hygiene Campaign
- Building a New and Clean State
- The Patriotic Hygiene Campaign and the Construction of Clean New People
- A Farewell to the “Sick Man of East Asia”: The Irony, Deconstruction, and Reshaping of the Metaphor
- Part V: “China’s Road”: The Cooperative Medical Services
- “To Put the Emphasis of Medical Care on the Countryside”
- Mobile Medical Services
- Cooperative Medical Services in Rural Areas
- Chapter Four: “China’s Road”: The Cooperative Medical Services as a “Paradigm”
- Part VI: A Public Country: The New Cooperative Medical Services
- A Risk Society
- New Cooperative Medical Service
- A Public Country and Its Expansion
- Conclusion: Disease Politics: A Nation-state or a Democratic State?
- The Logic of Disease Politics
- Curse to the Latecomer
- Local Knowledge and Localized Knowledge
- A Nation State? A Democratic State?
- References
- Postscript.
