Article ID: CBB018270667

Making Fast-Track Surgery Transportable: Sino-Danish Travel Work (2021)

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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.

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Authors & Contributors
Hoeyer, Klaus
Heimer, Carol A.
Hogle, Linda F.
Jensen, Casper Bruun
Tsuge, Azumi
Vallgårda, Signild
Journals
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Social Studies of Science
Science, Technology, and Human Values
Medical History
Science as Culture
Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society
Publishers
Springer Nature
Concepts
Science and technology studies (STS)
Medicine
Health care
Public health
Diffusion of innovation; diffusion of knowledge; diffusion of technology
Medical tourism
People
Dewey, John
Time Periods
21st century
19th century
20th century
Places
Denmark
China
Taiwan
Thailand
India
Korea
Institutions
Copenhagen. Universitet
Accountable Care Organizations (Medical care)
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