Our Battle for Breath: making lung health a priority
This was the fourth and final blog post in a series of responses to the British Lung Foundation‘s Battle for…
Posts by Sarah McLusky
‘Lies, damned lies, and statistics’: mesothelioma in literature
This was the third of a series of responses to the British Lung Foundation‘s Battle for Breath report. This discussion…
How does culture shape the language of breathlessness?
This was the second of a series of responses to the British Lung Foundation‘s Battle for Breath report. This discussion…
Why is breathlessness invisible?
This was the first of a series of responses to the British Lung Foundation‘s Battle for Breath report. This discussion…
A phenomenology of illness
Life of Breath PI Havi Carel writes: The experience of illness is a universal and substantial part of human existence.…
Phenomenology of Illness by Havi Carel
Life of Breath PI Havi Carel’s new book Phenomenology of Illness is now available. Havi argues that the experience of illness has been…
Breath Control
Artist Caroline Wright has made a successful application to Arts Council England, in collaboration with Cambridge Junction and Life of…
Illness as transformative experience
Life of Breath PI Havi Carel, Ian James Kidd (University of Nottingham) and Richard Pettigrew (University of Bristol) have a paper…
‘Don’t drink the water and don’t breathe the air!’
David Scoins (lifelong runner, sometime sports teacher) spent seven years in China; a year or more in each of Xi’an, Nanjing,…
Inspiring change: humanities and social science insights into the experience and management of breathlessness
Durham team members Rebecca Oxley and Jane Macnaughton argue that, in order to treat breathlessness more effectively, we need a greater understanding of…
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