living with…. the book
Last updated: 17th May, 2008
Living with… is a powerful, evocative and thought-provoking series of 34 articles written by people who have a range of different medical “conditions”. The contributors offer the unique privilege of understanding the day-to-day reality of their “living with”; a perspective rarely given the time and attention it deserves. They are ordinary people living in extraordinary circumstances, battling to retain their dignity and their sense of worth and purpose in a world that can be at best thoughtless, and at worst, cruel.
Living with… arose out of a collaboration between mosaic: shaping disability services (mosaic) and Just Services. mosaic produces a bi-monthly newsletter called mosaic news. We invited anyone who was interested to write an article from their own perspective about what it meant to them to live with any particular medical “condition”. mosaic was successful in getting a small grant to support this project and formed a partnership with Just Services who had Arts Council funding to work with disabled writers. These articles form the book “Living with…”
Living with… is a valuable resource, particularly at a time when the government are promoting the concept of the “Expert Patient.” This book shows that we are a long way from that.
The writers have an honesty that is hard-hitting; sometimes funny, often poignant, always revealing.
No one knows best, whether they are working in Social Care and Health, as complementary practitioners or counsellors. The “experts” are in these pages, the people “Living with…”
For further information and to order a copy of Living With… please contact Just Services, Beaumont Enterprise Centre, 72 Boston Road, Beaumont Leys, Leicester LE4 1HB. Tel: 0116 2293102. Fax: 0116 2351844 or you can email Just Services at justandwhitehill@yahoo.com
You can purchase a copy of the living with book here