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.

Author: Liu Jia
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 12/01/2023
Pages: 169
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9789819964369

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.