Our mixed methods and mixed disciplines enabled the project team to explore CST in different contexts and through many conceptual lenses, producing deeper and more complicated ac- counts of this emerging phenomenon. While some of the con- ceptual tools we outline below have resonance and usefulness beyond CST, our discussion focuses on specificity: what happens in CST is a particular form of coming-together (and sometimes throwing-together). The particularity of CST is in part related to issues discussed above: the electiveness and monetised nature of the transactions, changes in the local and global landscapes of healthcare provision (including issues of both regulation and deregulation), the ‘consumerisation’ of at least some aspects of healthcare, and the issue of ‘tourismness’. These issues have at times led to over-simplistic ‘analysis’ which collapses CST with homogenising globalisation, cultural (and medical) imperialism, and neoliberalism. Our dissatisfaction with such easy accounting for CST, combined with the richness of our empirical material, pushed us to produce a more nuanced analysis, one that listened carefully to how real participants accounted for their own expe- riences and actions, and that scouted more widely for ways to conceptualise CST. We shy away from overgeneralisation, and begin our own act of assemblage by considering the diverse flows that together make up CST.