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.
Produktinformation
Utgivningsdatum2013-12-17
Mått155 x 235 x 24 mm
Vikt540 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor254
Upplaga2013
FörlagSpringer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
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.