Strive and labour more vehemently
RCP's Katie Birkwood (Rare Books & Special Collections Librarian) and Felix Lancashire (Assistant Archivist) discuss their favourite objects of the…
Posts by Sarah McLusky
RCP’s Catch Your Breath
Explore this unique version of the Catch Your Breath exhibition and its collections at the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Botanicals for breathlessness
The Royal College of Physicians' medicinal garden is home to a variety of plants used to cure different respiratory illnesses.
The Soundscape
Life of Breath researcher, music therapist & mindful yoga therapist Kate Binnie discusses her recorded piece 'The Soundscape'.
The Book of Jo
Theatre maker Viv Gordon explains how she came to create her theatre work The Book of Jo.
X-rays don’t tell lies (McGuire, 2019)
The British Medical Research Council’s medical surveys of the South Wales collieries represent a key conflict between standardization and individuals’…
Disrupted breath, songlines of breathlessness (Malpass, Dodd, Feder, et al., 2019)
A ‘songline’ is a song used within Australian Aboriginal culture as a way to navigate across the land… Health research…
The meaning of the name ‘pulmonary rehabilitation’ (Oxley et al, 2019)
What’s in a name? Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR), an exercise and education programme, is currently the most effective non-pharmaceutical therapy for…
‘The Secret’ & ‘To Breathe’
Films created by our writer-in-residence Christy Ducker in collaboration with filmmaker Kate Sweeney.
Rewriting the PH story
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a rare condition affecting the heart and lungs, with the main symptom being breathlessness. It is…
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