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

by Yi Hu

Book Overview

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 implications. This book, starting with the argument for diseases being metaphors, describes and interprets such incidents in China's history as the Abolishment...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3662513072
• ISBN13: 9783662513071
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"