Rural Health Care Delivery

Part I: 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.- Part II: 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 Country.- Part III: The People's Medical Care: A Brand New State and the Guideline for Health Care.- State of "the People".- Guidelines for Health Care Services.- Part IV: 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.- Part V: "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.- Chapter Four: "China's Road": The Cooperative Medical Services as a "Paradigm".- Part VI: 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?.- References.- Postscript.