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Rural Health Care Delivery Modern China from the Perspective of Disease Politics /

Diseases are everyday, ordinary occurrences intimately related to peopleỚ"s daily lives. However, as the metaphor of the ỚSSick Man of East AsiaỚ<U+00fd> emerged against the backdrop of a weak modern China, health care and the curing of diseases were turned into grand state politics wi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hu, Yi. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Subjects:
Social sciences.
Social Sciences.
Social Sciences, general.
Online Access:View fulltext via EzAccess
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Introduction
  • The Double Meaning of the ỚSSick Man of East AsiaỚ<U+00fd> and ChinaỚ"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 PeopleỚ"s Medical Care: A Brand New State and the Guideline for Health Care
  • State of ỚSthe PeopleỚ<U+00fd>
  • 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 ỚSSick Man of East AsiaỚ<U+00fd>: The Irony, Deconstruction, and Reshaping of the Metaphor
  • Part V: ỚSChinaỚ"s RoadỚ<U+00fd>: The Cooperative Medical Services
  • ỚSTo Put the Emphasis of Medical Care on the CountrysideỚ<U+00fd>
  • Mobile Medical Services
  • Cooperative Medical Services in Rural Areas
  • Chapter Four: ỚSChinaỚ"s RoadỚ<U+00fd>: The Cooperative Medical Services as a ỚSParadigmỚ<U+00fd>
  • 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.

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