To Breathe Ourselves into Some Other Lungs
Highlights and interviews from an evening of poetry and song to provoke deeper thought and discussion around the lived experience…
Posts by Sarah McLusky
Measuring Breath: from cadavers to spirometers
New Life of Breath post-doctoral researcher Coreen McGuire introduces her research: Last seen fleeing the scene of the crime, the suspect…
Lost in Translation? Exploring the language of breathlessness
Life of Breath post-doctoral researcher Rebecca Oxley writes: ‘Breath Lab’ is designed as a living experiment to promote discussion around…
It Felt Like Drowning
Elan Higueras shares the story behind his winning composition competition entry.
Medievalism and the Medical Humanities
Some may wonder why our project includes the consideration of medieval thoughts and practices relating to the breath. What can…
Eight things that have changed since the smoking ban ten years ago
This post was originally published by The Conversation. Anthropologist and Life of Breath team member Andrew Russell writes: It’s hard to…
10 Years Smoke Free
Andrew Russell and Gaynor Williams talk about what difference the ban on smoking in enclosed public spaces has made.
Letter to Your Breath
Anthropologist Alice Malpass and letter-revivalist Elspeth Penny talk about what they've learned from asking people to write a letter to their breath.
The uses and abuses of air (2)
The header shows Capacity by Annie Cattrell, part of the Royal West of England Academy exhibition ‘Air: Visualising the Invisible…
Heart Failure
The header image shows a viola, also called heartsease. Music therapist and writer Kate Binnie writes: I am in the hospital.…
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