Obligation - The Changing Physician-Patient Relationship and Healthcare Reforms in China

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.

List of contents

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Barefoot Doctors and Sense of Obligation.- Chapter 3. Informed Consent and Marketization of Healthcare.- Chapter 4. Public Hospital Reform and Physician Obligation.- Chapter 5. Systemic Healthcare Reform and State Obligation.- Chapter 6. Conclusion.

About the author

Jia Liu is an Associate Research Professor at the Institute of Public Policy, South China University of China. She holds a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include global justice, bioethics, and health care reform in China.

Product details

• Authors: Liu Jia
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2024
• EAN: 9789819964390
• ISBN: 978-981-9964-39-0
• No. of pages: 169
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 10 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 247 g
• Illustrations: XI, 169 p. 5 illus., 3 illus. in color.
• Series: IPP Studies in the Frontiers of China's Public Policy; IPP Studies in the Frontiers of China’s Public Policy
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General