Making Fast-Track Surgery Transportable: Sino-Danish Travel Work
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Making Fast-Track Surgery Transportable : Sino-Danish Travel Work. / Andersen, Signe Lindgård.
I: East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an international journal, Bind 15, 30.06.2021, s. 333–353.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Making Fast-Track Surgery Transportable
T2 - Sino-Danish Travel Work
AU - Andersen, Signe Lindgård
PY - 2021/6/30
Y1 - 2021/6/30
N2 - This article examines the concrete travel work that enables the global transport of Fast-Track Surgery (FTS), a set of evidence-based, standardized protocols and guidelines for perioperative recovery. Having ethnographically followed FTS training for medical staff from provincial hospitals in China's Gansu province at a local hospital in Denmark, I show how FTS is made transportable through interactions between Chinese and Danish healthcare professionals in a series of workshops, meetings and educational activities. I argue that the transportability of a health-promoting infrastructure like FTS is neither a matter of technology transfer nor of evidence as such. Rather, it requires a specific kind of travel work in the form of traveling comparisons as a constant two-way dynamic between hospital settings in Denmark and China.
AB - This article examines the concrete travel work that enables the global transport of Fast-Track Surgery (FTS), a set of evidence-based, standardized protocols and guidelines for perioperative recovery. Having ethnographically followed FTS training for medical staff from provincial hospitals in China's Gansu province at a local hospital in Denmark, I show how FTS is made transportable through interactions between Chinese and Danish healthcare professionals in a series of workshops, meetings and educational activities. I argue that the transportability of a health-promoting infrastructure like FTS is neither a matter of technology transfer nor of evidence as such. Rather, it requires a specific kind of travel work in the form of traveling comparisons as a constant two-way dynamic between hospital settings in Denmark and China.
KW - Infrastructures
KW - health solutions
KW - comparison
KW - training
KW - travel work
KW - KNEE ARTHROPLASTY
KW - CARE
KW - HIP
KW - CHINA
KW - MANAGEMENT
KW - EVOLUTION
KW - POLITICS
U2 - 10.1080/18752160.2021.1927347
DO - 10.1080/18752160.2021.1927347
M3 - Journal article
VL - 15
SP - 333
EP - 353
JO - East Asian Science, Technology and Society
JF - East Asian Science, Technology and Society
SN - 1875-2160
ER -
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