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Health Professionals and Patient and Public Involvement in Healthcare

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Across the globe, patients are no longer passive recipients of care — they are active participants, decision-makers and collaborators. This timely volume explores the evolving landscape of patien...
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  • 21 April 2026
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Across the globe, patients are no longer passive recipients of care — they are active participants, decision-makers and collaborators.

This timely volume explores the evolving landscape of patient and public involvement (PPI) in healthcare, focusing on its intersection with the healthcare professions. Drawing on international perspectives, the book examines how patients and professionals navigate changing roles, peer support networks and complex healthcare systems. It considers the sociological and practical implications of patient-centric care and its impact on clinical outcomes and resources.

This book brings fresh insight to a fast-developing field.

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Price: $119.95
Pages: 230
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Imprint: Policy Press
Series: Sociology of Health Professions
Publication Date: 21 April 2026
ISBN: 9781447374633
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, Medical sociology, MEDICAL / Physician & Patient, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Health systems and services, Personal and public health / health education
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‘A must read for academics, policymakers and practitioners interested in a sociological analysis of the interaction of health and care professionals with patient and public involvement. I particularly enjoyed Particularly notable are international perspectives upon the topic, and insight into the wider historical and institutional context for patient and public involvement.’ Graeme Currie, University of Warwick

‘Supported by an internationally updated focus and a neo-Weberian and neo-institutionalist sociological approach, this book comprehensively addresses the broader interface between patients and health professions in the changing era of the digital society, filling a major gap in the literature influencing policy development and practice in healthcare delivery.’ Guido Giarelli, University Magna Graecia

Miwako Hosoda is Professor at Seisa University in Japan.

Mike Saks is Emeritus Professor at the University of Suffolk in the UK.

Mike Dent is Emeritus Professor at Staffordshire University in the UK.

Introduction - Miwako Hosoda and Mike Saks

Part 1: Patient and Public Involvement: The Context

1. The Development of Patient and Public Involvement - Mike Dent

2. The Tensions Between Biomedicine and Patient and Public Involvement - Mike Saks

3. The Interface of Patients and the Public with the Allied Health Professions - Danielle Hitch and Rosalie Boyce

4. Patient and Peer Support in an Era of Digital Technology - Miwako Hosoda

5. The Rise of the Professionalising Patient - Jonathan Gabe and Joana Almeida

6. Patient and Public Involvement in Healthcare Research - Junji Kayukawa

7. The Management and Relationships of Patient and Carers Organisations in Healthcare - Guido Giarelli

Part 2: Patient and Public Involvement in Specific Societies

8. The Role of Patient and Public Involvement Through Peer Support for People with Intractable Disease in Japan - Takuya Matsushige

9. The Involvement of Users and Health Professionals in Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Brazil - Nelson Barros, Pamela Siegel, Elaine Marasca Garcia Da Costa and Renata Carnevale

10. Patient and Public Involvement in Maternal Care in India - Mohammad Akram

11. Health Lifestyles and Status Groups at Midlife in the United States - William C. Cockerham

Conclusion: The Future - Mike Dent