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

Signe Lindgård Andersen (Author)

East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Volume: 15
Issue: 3
Pages: 333-353

DOI: 10.1080/18752160.2021.1927347

URI: https://doi.org/10.1080/18752160.2021.1927347

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Technoscience; science and technology studies Diffusion of innovation; diffusion of knowledge; diffusion of technology Fast track surgery Health care Medicine Medical tourism Infrastructure Denmark China

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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