Making Fast-Track Surgery Transportable: Sino-Danish Travel Work

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  • Signe Lindgård Andersen
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 guide-lines 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
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftEast Asian Science, Technology and Society: an international journal
Vol/bind15
Sider (fra-til)333–353
Antal sider21
ISSN1875-2160
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 30 jun. 2021

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