Heart Failure
The header image shows a viola, also called heartsease. Music therapist and writer Kate Binnie writes: I am in the hospital.…
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Breathless in Bristol (3)
Life of Breath PhD student Tina Williams writes: On the 16th and 17th March 2017, The University of Bristol hosted a…
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…
‘With wide lungs’: smoking, wind and air in W. Somerset Maugham’s The Merry-Go-Round
Jess Farr-Cox, Project Manager (Bristol) writes: The Merry-Go-Round is not as well-known as other works by W. Somerset Maugham, such…
Breath of Life on Radio Scotland
First broadcast on Good Friday 2016, the Breath of Life radio programme featured our principle investigator Jane Macnaughton in conversation with Anna…
The breath between: art, film, mortality, and AIR
Jenny Chamarette (writer, curator and film scholar and Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Queen Mary University of London), and Anna…
‘All his heart was cold’
In honour of the Glastonbury Festival, Jess Farr-Cox, Project Manager (Bristol) writes a post with an Arthurian flavour (see also ‘Arthur’s…
Portrait Therapy for Life Support?
Susan M D Carr, art therapist at the Prospect Hospice and PhD Student at Loughborough University, writes: I was in…
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