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

by Jiong Tu

Book Overview

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 in a Chinese county from 2011 to 2012, which investigated local people's experience of healthcare reforms and the various ways in which they have adapted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811345007
• ISBN13: 9789811345005
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"