Breath of Life on Radio Scotland
First broadcast on Good Friday 2016, the Breath of Life radio programme featured our principle investigator Jane Macnaughton in conversation with Anna…
Posts by Sarah McLusky
Beckett’s Breathing Rhythms: Worstward Ho (1983) and Stirrings Still (1989)
As part of a seminar on the Rhythm of Prose at the American Comparative Literature Association 2016 conference, Arthur Rose…
Singing for Breathing
Vocal coach, community choir and workshop leader and music therapist Phoene Cave writes: In 2008 I answered an advertisement for…
Means and ENDS – e-cigarettes, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and global health diplomacy in action
Can e-cigarettes (also called electronic nicotine delivery systems or ENDS) help curb smoking or are they just a smoke screen allowing tobacco…
The breath between: art, film, mortality, and AIR
Jenny Chamarette (writer, curator and film scholar and Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Queen Mary University of London), and Anna…
Epistemic Injustice and Illness
Both patients and doctors complain of problems communicating with each other. Senior investigator Havi Carel and Ian Kidd consider the possible roots of this.…
Affective Reading: Chaucer, Women, and Romance
Understanding how thoughts and feelings can affect the body is a key strand of our research. Here, team member Corinne Saunders explores how the interaction…
Drawing Breath
Throughout 2016, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine journal will feature the work of Jayne Wilton, visual artist and Life of Breath project…
With bated breath: diagnosis of respiratory illness
In this essay, senior investigator Havi Carel recounts her experience of being diagnosed with a rare respiratory condition as a…
Near-death experiences: mortality at Medicine Unboxed
Kate Binnie writes about the recent Medicine Unboxed conference (November 18th-20th, Cheltenham). Next year’s conference is on the theme of wonder…
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