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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 of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Patriotic Hygiene Campaign and the Cooperative Medical Services. In an effort to reveal the internal logic of disease politics in the transformation of the state-people relationship, the book analyzes key aspects including the politicization and inclusion of diseases in state governance, the double disciplining of hygiene, legitimacy construction of the state, the remaking of the nationals, and the expansion of the 'publicness' of the state. 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. In addition, a marked change has occurred in China's state building: increasingly standard, rationalized and institutionalized means have been employed while the non-standard means, such as large-scale mobilization and ideological coercion, had been historically used in China.

Table of Contents:

• 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
• 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 County
• The People's Medical Care: A Brand New State and the Guideline for Health Care. State of "the People"
• Guidelines for Health Care Services
• 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
• "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
• "China's Road": The Cooperative Medical Services as a "Paradigm"
• 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?

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Author/Creator:

Hu, Yi

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Rural health care delivery: modern China from the perspective of disease politics [by Hu, Y.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Rural health care delivery [by Hu, Y.] (ISBN 9783642399817; OCLC Number 867510500)

Subjects:

Medical policy — China

Medical care — China

China — Politics and government — 1949-

Medical care

Medical policy

China

Politics and government

Since 1949

Genres:

dissertations

Academic theses

General Notes:

Dissertation.
Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 254 pages)

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

RA395.C53 H895 2013eb

ISBNs:

9783642399824 (electronic bk.)
3642399827 (electronic bk.)
9783642399817 [Invalid]
3642399819 [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

Digital Object Identifier: 10.1007/978-3-642-39982-4

OCLC Numbers:

868592856