‘Letter to my Breath’ at Fun Palaces, Bristol
Life of Breath collaborator Elspeth Penny writes about her experience facilitating a “Letter to my Breath” workshop at Barton Hill…
Posts by Sarah McLusky
Not Everyone Can Take Breathing for Granted
PhD student Fredrik Nyman reflects on what he has learned from people living with breathlessness. Breathing may be a basic…
‘Breathe Happy, Breathe Healthy’ Bristol mural installation
As part of the Fun Palaces campaign in October this year, Life of Breath collaborated with local Bristol artist Sophie…
Breathing through oxygen technology in Uruguay and South Africa (Wainwright, 2018)
Life of Breath collaborator Dr. Megan Wainwright introduces her new paper “Exploring ambivalent human-oxygen technology-world relations through the lens of Postphenomenlogy”…
Catch Your Breath exhibition sneak peek
by David Wright, Curator Hello and welcome to the Catch Your Breath exhibition blog. We’re just under two months away…
Phenomenology’s contribution to health and illness
A new book on phenomenology and illness entitled Existential Medicine: Essays on Health and Illness is now out, with a chapter by…
Graphic Medicine: Breathing new insights into illness narratives with comics
Brian Callender is an internal medicine physician from the University of Chicago interested in the health humanities, with a focus on…
‘Race Correction’ in Medicine: A History of Lung Function Measurements
The Life of Breath project was delighted to host Professor Lundy Braun in Bristol recently to speak at our bi-annual…
Breathlessness: from bodily symptom to existential experience (Williams & Carel, 2018)
Tina Williams and Havi Carel have contributed a chapter on breathlessness to this new essay collection which explores the experience…
Invisible Suffering: The Experience of Breathlessness (Carel, 2018)
In this book chapter in the volume Atmospheres of Breathing, Prof Carel considers breathlessness from a phenomenological perspective, reframing it…
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