Rural Health Care Delivery

Modern China from the Perspective of Disease Politics

AvYi Hu

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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The book argues that disease politics in modern China has developed following the path from nationals to the people, and then to citizens, or from crisis politics and mobilization politics to life politics.

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-08-27
Mått:155 x 235 x 15 mm
Vikt:411 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:254
Förlag:Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
ISBN:9783662513071

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Samhälle och kultur inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Innehållsförteckning

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.