‘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…
Past Events
Curious about breath at the Oxford Curiosity Carnival
Music therapist and writer Kate Binnie writes: Friday 29th September saw Oxford’s City Centre transformed by the Curiosity Carnival. This University-organised event…
Under the Surface
Composer and academic Toby Young writes: ‘Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living and art…
A year of inspiration
Throughout 2016 our collaborator Jayne Wilton created unique and beautiful breath-inspired artworks to grace the cover of The Lancet Respiratory…
A Painful Silence: bringing domestic violence into conversation
The header image shows a representation of the three wise monkeys, see no evil, hear no evil and speak no…
Take a Breath at Celebrate Science 2016
We challenged visitors to Durham University’s Celebrate Science marquee to do something unusual with their breath – either use it…
Breath in the technoscientific imaginary
Here, Durham researcher Arthur Rose explores breath as a theme, metaphor and plot device in Science Fiction. Whether used to convey a sense of…
Breathing Space (May 2016)
Life of Breath team members and collaborators gathered in Bristol on 12 and 13 May 2016 for one of our…
The Philosophical Role of Illness
Philosophical methods have been used to study illness for several decades. Havi Carel reverses the relationship between the two, asking:…
Should I fear my death?
Where death is, I am no longer, where I am death is not. If life and death are mutually exclusive, then…
2015-2020