How surgery became a global public health issue

Rachel Prentice

Technology in Society, 2018, vol. 52, issue C, 17-23

Abstract: •Documents reconstruction in late 1990s and 2000s of surgery as a worldwide public-health issue.•Considers cultural tensions between individualistic values of surgical culture and bureaucratic mandates.•Examines WHO’s Safe Surgery Saves Lives, which enacts and describes a shift toward applying public-health principles to surgery.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2017.08.006

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