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the online journal of writing for health
published in Spring, Summer and Winter - included with membership

GET PUBLISHED IN THE NEXT ISSUE:

Write your response to any article in any 2011 Lapidus Journal
email it to info@lapidus.org.uk
and you may be published in a new feedback section

You could write a poem, a critique, share your related experience,
give an alternative viewpoint - you could even make a piece of artwork
- be as creative as you like!

Guide to Getting Started as a Writer in Health and Social Care Settings

To download this Word document click here Getting Started
This information sheet was co-commissioned by Lapidus and NAWE (National Association of Writers in Education) to provide nuts and bolts information and advice on how to enter the field of writing in health and social care. Topics covered include training, accreditation, how to get experience, getting work and setting up your own project

Flesh and poetry

Sam is Curator of Medicine Unboxed and introduced this year's event with a prose poem he wrote which gives the voice of the medical practitioner and opens questions about what patients want
Read it at Medicine Unboxed
Sue Mayfield writes of the conference: Physician/Poet/Philosopher Raymond Tallis opened Medicine Unboxed by quoting Philip Larkin 'Our flesh surrounds us with its own decisions'. This was a day about flesh - birth, death, pain, disease, tenderness - but also about value. What is the price of life? When is the price too high? How do we reconcile infinite need and finite means? How do we live with our own 'fault lines'? At the heart of the day was literature - the place where, said John Carey, 'thought and feeling meet', with powerful readings from Michael Arditti (on euthanasia), Jo Shapcott (on bees) and Paul Bailey (on encountering Fred Astaire dancing with an elephant in a hospital ward!) Ishani Kar-Purkayastha read her prize-winning essay-shortstory 'An Epidemic of Loneliness' and Lionel Shriver talked movingly about cancer, American health-care and her new novel 'So Much for That'. Here was 'writing in clay', celebrating life - not perfect, but good - life shot-through with plenty and scarcity, beauty and terror
Louise Green writes about Medicine Unboxed in the Winter issue of Lapidus Journal

Create Arts Projects for Patients - article in Medeconomics

by Lapidus member Elizabeth Gates
who examines how funding for art projects in health settings lies in the balance
See
Medeconomics article for full text

Radical Psychology journal

is the journal of the Radical Psychology Network and fully endorses its goals:
see Resources page/Useful Websites/Publications for further information

Blog news

Victoria Field writes in Jessica Kingsley Publishers Blog 'On Therapeutic Writing: Heal your past, Live your present and Create your future'