Health Care Transformation in Contemporary China Moral Experience in a Socialist Neoliberal Polity /

• Main Author: Tu, Jiong (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Social medicine.; Medical care.; Public health.; Ethnography.; Medical Sociology.; Health Services Research.

This multifaceted book examines the free market reform of the Chinese healthcare system in the 1980s and the more collectivist or socialist counter-reforms that have been implemented since 2009 to remedy some of the problems introduced by marketization. The book is based on an ethnographical study i...

Table of Contents:

• Abstract
• Illustrations
• Notes
• Introduction: The Politics and Morality of Health Care Transformation in China
• Rescue First or Money First? Commercialised Institutions, Calculating Professionals, and Neoliberal Governance
• From 'Care of the Self' to 'Entrepreneur of the Self': Reconfiguration of Patients' Responsibilities, Needs, and Rights
• Health Insurance Regime as Differentiation and Discipline
• Gift Practice in the Chinese Health Sector: Inequality, Power and Governance
• Power Game of Nao: Violent Disputes in the Chinese Medical Sector
• Practice of the Self: 'Barefoot Doctors' in Post-reform China
• Conclusion: Moral Experience in a Socialist Neoliberal Polity
• References
• Appendix I
• Appendix II
• Appendix III
• Appendix IV.