The China Cure

An insider’s perspective on how China’s healthcare is developing, where it offers lessons for the West and how it could shape the practice and delivery of medicine worldwide. This is a book about health under pressure, and about what becomes possible when a country of immense scale is forced to innovate in one of the most difficult and intimate domains of public life. Some of what emerges is impressive, some of it is troubling and much of it remains unresolved. China has embraced innovation and technology in health care to tackle its own huge healthcare burden. The strain of chronic ill health is both a challenge to the existing system and an opportunity for biotech development. China’s ability to operate at scale, develop novel pharmaceuticals and innovate in care delivery holds promise for global healthcare and has made it a global industry leader in a matter of decades. Ruby Wang offers an insider’s perspective of how China’s healthcare is developing, where it offers lessons for the West and how it could shape the practice and delivery of medicine worldwide.