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 their own
behavior to the constraints and opportunities introduced by these
reforms. It provides a vivid depiction of the morality and
emotionality of people's experiences of the Chinese healthcare
system and the myriad frustrations and sometimes desperation it
induces not only among patients with significant health problems
and their families, but also healthcare practitioners caught
between their desire to do right by their patients and the
penalties they personally incur if they do not adhere to
institutionalized cost-saving measures. The people's experiences
within China's health sector presented reflect many similar
experiences in the wider Chinese society. The book is thus a
valuable resource for researchers and graduate students interested
in China's healthcare reforms and scholars concerned with issues of
contemporary Chinese society.
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