Cynicism as a strategic virtue
Cynicism is often associated with indifference and fatalism – traits which are undoubtedly undesirable among healthcare professionals. However, in this article the…
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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 phenomenology of illness, part 2
Following on from part 1, Life of Breath PI Havi Carel writes: What is breathlessness? This is a seemingly simple…
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…
OBE for Life of Breath team member
We are thrilled to share the news that one of our project team, Prof Gene Feder, has been awarded an…
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…
Breathe Easy Durham Dales at Breathing Space
The header photograph was taken by Paul Waine, and shows Bev Wears of the British Lung Foundation and Rebecca Oxley,…
Epistemic injustice in psychiatry
Life of Breath PI Havi Carel explores epistemic injustice in psychiatry with Paul Crichton and Ian James Kidd in a…
Phenomenology of Illness by Havi Carel
Life of Breath PI Havi Carel’s new book Phenomenology of Illness is now available. Havi argues that the experience of illness has been…
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