Restoring Breath: Questions, medical advancements and the importance of bystander participation
Tina Williams, PhD student on the Life of Breath project, writes a post prompted by the inaugural lecture of Jerry…
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A phenomenology of illness
Life of Breath PI Havi Carel writes: The experience of illness is a universal and substantial part of human existence.…
‘Don’t drink the water and don’t breathe the air!’
David Scoins (lifelong runner, sometime sports teacher) spent seven years in China; a year or more in each of Xi’an, Nanjing,…
Reflections on vaping 1: An introduction to the world of cloud-chasing
This post is the first of a series on vaping and vape tricks by Rebecca Oxley, post-doctoral researcher in anthropology on the…
Nothing but blue skies
This post is written jointly by Jess Farr-Cox (Life of Breath Project Manager (Bristol) and recently back from a trip…
‘Out of his nostrils goeth smoke’: whales, whaling and breathing fire
In the second of a series of posts on cetaceans (see also ‘The cetaceans may give rise to some perplexity‘),…
The First and Last Breath: reflections from palliative and neonatal care
Kate Binnie, yoga teacher and music therapist, writes: In his brilliant book Being Mortal (2015) Atul Gawande calls for all…
Letter to my lungs
Elspeth Penny is an arts, health and communication specialist. She has a letter writing project and a creative consultancy and writes,…
‘The cetaceans may give rise to some complexity’: breathlessness in whales and dolphins
In the first of a series of posts on cetaceans (see also ‘Out of his nostrils goeth smoke‘, Project Manager…
Every Last Breath (2)
In an essay that first appeared in Atrium: The Report of the Northwestern Medical Humanities & Bioethics Program (Spring 2011,…
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