Accommodating the Chinese

Informationen zum Autor Michelle Campbell Renshaw is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide. Klappentext This in depth comparative study demonstrates that the hospital established in China-its planning and architecture, financing, and all aspects of day-to-day operation-differed from its counterpart at home. These differences were never due to a single, or even dominant cause. They were a result of a complex process involving accommodation, appreciation, negotiation, opportunism and pragmatism. Zusammenfassung This in-depth comparative study demonstrates that the hospital established in China - its planning and architecture, financing, and all aspects of day-to-day operation - differed from its counterpart at home. These differences were never due to a single, or even dominant cause. They were a result of a complex process involving accommodation, appreciation, negotiation, opportunism and pragmatism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Section I: The Historical Context 1. The Hospital - In Time and Space 2. Chinese Institutions Met by Prostestant Missionaries Section II: The Hospital - Its Physical Manifestation 3. In the Beginning 4. Putting Down Roots - The Doctor Builder 5. The Arrival of Architects Section III: Financing the Hospital Enterprise 6. Who Should Pay? 7. Who Did Pay? Section IV: The Patient's Experience 8. Entering a Hospital 9. Life on the Ward. Conclusion. Appendix A.

Product details

• Authors: Michelle Renshaw, Michelle Campbell Renshaw, Michelle Campbell (Visiting Research Fellow Renshaw, Renshaw Michelle Campbell
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2005
• EAN: 9780415972857
• ISBN: 978-0-415-97285-7
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Series: East Asia: History, Politics,; East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture; East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); History, HISTORY / General, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, Health systems & services, Health systems and services