The social practice of medical guanxi (personal connections) and patient-physician trust in China: an anthropological and ethical study

Zou, X; Cheng, Y; Nie, JB

Cheng, Y (reprint author), Sun Yat Sen Univ, Dept Sociol & Anthropol, Guangzhou, Guangdong, Peoples R China.

DEVELOPING WORLD BIOETHICS, 2018; 18 (1): 45

Abstract

In China's healthcare sector, a popular and socio-culturally distinctive phenomenon known as guanxi jiuyi (medical guanxi), whereby patients draw on t......

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