In order to control ever-increasing health care expenditure, Western and Asian countries are seeking to develop more efficient health care models. Studies on health care that focus specifically on Asian countries are rare, rendering this a unique and welcome addition to the literature. This book...

The United States is the world’s largest supplier of medical technology (medtech). At the same time, growth in key emerging medtech markets - especially China, India, and Brazil - represent significant export opportunities for U.S. manufactures to further bolster their competitiveness. Yet,...

Foreword / by Manoranjan Mohanty -- Prologue: A modern Silk Road in health / by Lincoln C. Chen -- The changing landscape of the commercialisation of medical care in China: an overview -- The commercialisation of public hospitals: institutional and financial reforms -- The changing landscape of...

China in the 1980s is in the midst of a social revolution as far-reaching as either land reform or the early years of the cultural revolution. The egalitarian ideals and collective solutions of the Maoist era have disappeared, and in their place is an ideology that validates individual rather...