Living with Breathlessness, Learning from Experience
Rebecca Oxley and Fredrik Nyman discuss why learning from people who experience breathlessness is integral to our work.
Posts by Sarah McLusky
The Restricto-Box: Research without Borders
Life of Breath PhD student Tina Williams writes: The 2017 Research Without Borders Festival showcase exhibition ran at Bristol’s Colston…
The uses and abuses of air (1)
The header shows Ascent of Lunardi’s Balloon from St George’s Fields, London, 1788-90 by J. C. Ibbetson, which will be…
Breathless in Bristol (3)
Life of Breath PhD student Tina Williams writes: On the 16th and 17th March 2017, The University of Bristol hosted a…
COPD, culture, climate and the sensation of breathlessness in Uruguay
Dr Megan Wainwright is an international collaborator on the Life of Breath project. She is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at…
It Felt Like Drowning
The header image shows ‘In the same breath’, a 2008 artwork by artist and glass-blower Kate Williams (borosilicate glass /…
Singing Away Shyness
Singing teacher Deborah Hudson writes: There I was, lying on a couch with a whole lot of acupuncture pins in…
The invisibility of breathlessness: physiology, perceptions and politics
Jane Macnaughton discusses why breathlessness is an invisible symptom and why the people who experience it can be invisible in society.
Managing expectations? Cynicism and the medical humanities
Durham post-doc Arthur Rose writes; According to Diogenes Laertius, the Ancient Greek cynic Diogenes of Sinope ‘died voluntarily by holding…
Cynicism as a strategic virtue
Cynicism is often associated with indifference and fatalism – traits which are undoubtedly undesirable among healthcare professionals. However, in this article the…
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