This book explores the shifting nature of physician-patient relationship in China. Specifically, it takes the physician-patient relationship during the barefoot doctor program in 1968-1978, the marketization of healthcare in 1978-2002, and the healthcare reform in 2003-2020 as three historical periods, illustrating how the nature of the physician-patient relationship has changed over time. Analyzing the ways in which law and social policies-involving the doctrine of informed consent, public hospital reform, and systemic healthcare reform-have in different ways shaped and changed the practices of physicians and patients, which illustrates how the bond between them threatens to collapse. With a uniquely vivid depiction of Chinese healthcare issues, this book will interest sociologists, China scholars and more.
| ISBN: | 9789819964390 |
| Publication date: | 2nd December 2024 |
| Author: | Liu Jia |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Springer Nature Singapore |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 169 pages |
| Series: | IPP Studies in the Frontiers of China's Public Policy |
| Genres: |
Health systems and services Nursing and ancillary services Politics and government |
This book explores the shifting nature of physician-patient relationship in China. Specifically, it takes the physician-patient relationship during the barefoot doctor program in 1968-1978, the marketization of healthcare in 1978-2002, and the healthcare reform in 2003-2020 as three historical periods, illustrating how the nature of the physician-patient relationship has changed over time. Analyzing the ways in which law and social policies-involving the doctrine of informed consent, public hospital reform, and systemic healthcare reform-have in different ways shaped and changed the practices of physicians and patients, which illustrates how the bond between them threatens to collapse. With a uniquely vivid depiction of Chinese healthcare issues, this book will interest sociologists, China scholars and more.
Obligation features in the following genres: Health systems and services, Nursing and ancillary services, Politics and government
Obligation is available in Paperback
Obligation was written by Liu Jia and published by Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Springer Nature Singapore
Obligation has 169 pages
Yes it is part of IPP Studies in the Frontiers of China's Public Policy series
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