Overview
- Provides a unique set of perspectives on health care reform in China
- Provides contemporary Confucian, other Chinese, and Western perspectives on the perceived difficulties of market reforms in health care
- Provides an important overview of the health care system in China prior to the market reforms of the 1980s and 90s from Chinese scholars who are familiar with the full range of implications of those policies
- Provides reflections of contemporary Confucian and other perspectives on the role of trust in the doctor patient relationship
Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 96)
Part of the book sub series: Asian Studies in Bioethics and the Philosophy of Medicine (ASBP)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Introduction: Trust, the Market, and Bioethics
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Health Care Policy in China
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Trust, Profit, Scarcity, and Integrity: Confucian Thought and Traditional Morality
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The Market and Health Care
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Looking to the Future of China: Can Confucius Guide the Health Care Market?
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: China: Bioethics, Trust, and the Challenge of the Market
Editors: Julia Tao
Series Title: Philosophy and Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6757-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6756-3Published: 01 August 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7714-1Published: 16 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-6757-0Published: 08 July 2008
Series ISSN: 0376-7418
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0080
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 212
Topics: Philosophy of Medicine, Medicine/Public Health, general, Political Philosophy, Philosophy, general