Breath Control
Artist Caroline Wright has made a successful application to Arts Council England, in collaboration with Cambridge Junction and Life of…
Artist Caroline Wright has made a successful application to Arts Council England, in collaboration with Cambridge Junction and Life of…
Durham team members Rebecca Oxley and Jane Macnaughton argue that, in order to treat breathlessness more effectively, we need a greater understanding of…
Here, Durham researcher Arthur Rose explores breath as a theme, metaphor and plot device in Science Fiction. Whether used to convey a sense of…
Our PIs, Jane Macnaughton and Havi Carel have contributed a chapter on breathing and breathlessness to a new book, ‘The Edinburgh Companion…
Life of Breath team members and collaborators gathered in Bristol on 12 and 13 May 2016 for one of our…
Philosophical methods have been used to study illness for several decades. Havi Carel reverses the relationship between the two, asking:…
How can art (in this case, music) illuminate human experience? Here project collaborator Toby Young contemplates Tippett’s Symphony No. 4 (1977), a ‘birth…
Where death is, I am no longer, where I am death is not. If life and death are mutually exclusive, then…
‘Breath in literature’ was the theme for a Life of Breath panel at the 2016 Annual Conference of the British…
First broadcast on Good Friday 2016, the Breath of Life radio programme featured our principle investigator Jane Macnaughton in conversation with Anna…
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