“Through the lungs to memory”: Writer in Residence Evaluation
Read the evaluation of the writer-in-residence programme we ran alongside the Durham exhibition.
Our Work
‘It’s hard to think without your pants on’: patients as knowers
On Friday 18 October 2019 at Foyles Bookshop in London (Charing Cross Road), Prof Havi Carel delivered a talk ‘It’s…
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 COPD support group
Senior Research Associate on the Life of Breath project, clinical music therapist and mindful yoga teacher Kate Binnie visited a…
Dust to dust (McGuire, 2019)
Black lung is a disease often relegated to the domain of the history book. But can historical research tell us…
Anthropology of Tobacco (Russell, 2019)
How do we understand the relationship between tobacco and humans in light of the fact that tobacco has become one…
Mining Memories with Donald Trump in the Anthropocene (Rose, 2018)
What defines “coal identity politics” and what role might they have had in the election of Donald Trump? In this…
Dear Breath: using story structure to understand the value of letter writing for those living with breathlessness (Penny & Malpass, 2019)
Can using letters help create a personal narrative and public story, generating new ways of relating to breathlessness? A new…
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