Includes bibliographical references and index.

Living with early dementia / Sir Terry Pratchett -- Disability and illness: the perspective of people living with a long-term condition / Margo Milne with Mary Larkin and Cathy E. Lloyd -- Experiencing depression and diabetes / Katharine Barnard and Cathy E. Lloyd -- Experiencing and managing medically unexplained conditions: the case of chronic pelvic pain in women / Elaine Denny -- Me and ME: therapeutic landscapes in an unfamiliar world / Sara MacKian -- How to make health and social care research radical and really, really useful / Rachel Purtell and Andrew Gibson -- Naught for your comfort: quality of primary care for people with long-term conditions / Tom Heller -- Diabetes and pregnancy: service-users' perspectives on services and on research / Cathy E. Lloyd and Sarah Earle -- Coeliac disease: psychosocial factors in adults and children / Ruth A. Howard, G. Urquhart Law and Jane L. Petty -- Working with vulnerable people: experiences of disability / Mary Larkin -- Delivering health and social care for people with long-term conditions: the policy context / Alistair Hewison -- International experiences of integrating health and social care for people living with HIV / Erica Richardson -- Worth a risk? Risk taking and people with long-term conditions / Tom Heller -- What about the carers? / Mary Larkin -- Ethics and long-term conditions: a reflective approach / Stephen Pattison.