Making Fast-Track Surgery Transportable: Sino-Danish Travel Work
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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.
Original language | English |
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Journal | East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an international journal |
Volume | 15 |
Pages (from-to) | 333–353 |
Number of pages | 21 |
ISSN | 1875-2160 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 30 Jun 2021 |
- Infrastructures, health solutions, comparison, training, travel work, KNEE ARTHROPLASTY, CARE, HIP, CHINA, MANAGEMENT, EVOLUTION, POLITICS
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