Publics and Their Health Systems Rethinking Participation

“Working at the boundaries between political science, science and technology studies and medical sociology, Stewart’s book contributes to our understanding and conceptualising of the complex landscape of involvement activities. … Publics and their Health Systems is a valuable resource for researchers studying public involvement or participation in health care, and provides an important broadening of focus for those working to put participation into practice.” (Richard Milne, Sociology of Health and Illness, March, 2017)

“Stewart’s book is the first monograph to map such a diversity of different forms of participation around one system. … an excellent illustration of the value of mapping a particular system, quickly uncovering both its diversity and exclusions. … This monograph demonstrates the value of the recent turn to whole systems or institutional studies ofpublic participation. Rich empirical accounts such as this one will be vital to further theorising and attempts to intervene in these broader systems.” (Helen Pallett, LSE Review of Books, blogs.lse.ac.uk, May, 2016)