Dance for people with chronic breathlessness: a transdisciplinary approach to intervention development (Harrison et al, 2020)
Dance is fun, social and improves fitness, making it a promising form of exercise for people experiencing breathlessness.
Publications
Objects of safety and imprisonment (Binnie et al, 2020)
Exploring the conscious and unconscious relationships that people who experience breathlessness have with their health objects.
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Breath, Body and World (2020)
This special breath-themed issue of the journal Body and Society explores breath as a neglected topic within body studies.
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…
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…
Reading Breath in Literature (Rose et al, 2019)
At a key moment in Hamlet’s duel with Laertes, Gertrude cries out that Hamlet ‘is fat and scant of breath’…
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