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    Troublemaking in hospitals: Performed violence against the healthcare professions in China

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    Author
    Liu, T; Tan, X
    Date
    2020-06-12
    Source Title
    Health Sociology Review
    Publisher
    Informa UK Limited
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    Tan, Xiao
    Affiliation
    School of Social and Political Sciences
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    Liu, T. & Tan, X. (2020). Troublemaking in hospitals: Performed violence against the healthcare professions in China. Health Sociology Review, pp.1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2020.1779105.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/258915
    DOI
    10.1080/14461242.2020.1779105
    Abstract
    Yi Nao describes a type of violence displayed in Chinese hospitals which involves organised disturbances led by patients’ relatives and/or Yi Nao gangs. Drawing on media reports of Yi Nao, we argue that the phenomenon of Yi Nao transforms hospitals into ‘power arenas’ in which a struggle over moral and political resources (capital) takes place between patients, Yi Nao gangs, doctors, government agencies, and hospital management. Two interrelated rules that are crucial to understanding the ad hoc local strategies of the actors involved in Yi Nao are examined: the ‘publicity rule’, and the ‘rule of risk-avoidance’. We also argue that the political discourse of ‘stability’ has been internalised by the officials in the Chinese government and public hospitals in mediating social disputes. At the same time, Yi Nao actors use this discourse to creatively adapt to social resistance, as reflected in the disposition to use performative disturbance in pursuit of material or symbolic compensation.

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