Thinking Breath
Arthur Rose, post-doctoral researcher on the Life of Breath project, writes: The supplementary task in any interdisciplinary work worth its…
breathlessness
Making the invisible visible (2)
Rebecca Oxley, post-doctoral research fellow on the Life of Breath project, writes about the recent project launch in Durham (see…
Way up high
Jess Farr-Cox (Project Manager, Bristol) writes: Our recent official launch of the project was in many ways a model of…
Air and climate: an historical introduction
Mike Emanuel, Research Associate at Oxford Brookes University, Department of History, Philosophy and Religion, writes: In the fifth century BC, Hippocrates, in ‘On…
The riddle of breathlessness
Dr. Nabil Jarad, Consultant Respiratory Physician at Bristol Royal Infirmary and School of Clinical Sciences, University of Bristol, writes: ‘I…
‘Sing sweetly for tobacco!’
In the second of a series of posts about smoking (see also ‘A three-pipe problem’), Project Manager (Bristol) on the…
Bristol Life of Breath Launch Event
The Life of Breath team and guests gathered at Royal Fort House on 14 May 2015 to launch the project…
Invisible suffering: breathlessness in and beyond the clinic
In Life of Breath’s first publication, senior investigators, Havi Carel and Jane Macnaughton, and respiratory clinician James Dodd outline the rationale for…
A three-pipe problem
In the first of a series of posts on smoking (see also ‘Sing sweetly for tobacco!‘), Jess Farr-Cox (Project Manager (Bristol)…
Signal failure? Thinking outside the lung
Physiotherapist and Bradcliff practitioner Pip Windsor writes: How can a symptom of chronic over-breathing be a feeling of lack of air? How…
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