China Cure

The Rise of a Biotech, AI Medicine and Global Health Superpower
An insiders perspective on how Chinas 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 burdens. The strain of chronic ill health is both a challenge to the existing system and an opportunity to innovate in biotechnology and digital health. Chinas ability to operate at tremendous scale and pace has enabled it to become a global health leader in a matter of decades. Dr Ruby Wang offers an insiders perspective of wh