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

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tu, Jiong (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : 2019.
Imprint: Springer,
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Subjects:
Social medicine.
Medical care.
Ethnology.
Medical Sociology.
Health Care.
Ethnography.
Online Access:Full-text access
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.

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