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…
Kate Binnie, yoga teacher and music therapist, writes: In his brilliant book Being Mortal (2015) Atul Gawande calls for all…
Elspeth Penny is an arts, health and communication specialist. She has a letter writing project and a creative consultancy and writes,…
In the first of a series of posts on cetaceans (see also ‘Out of his nostrils goeth smoke‘, Project Manager…
In an essay that first appeared in Atrium: The Report of the Northwestern Medical Humanities & Bioethics Program (Spring 2011,…
In an essay that first appeared in Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction (Spring 2011, pp. 117-118), Professor of English Joanne…
Elsa Hammond is a PhD candidate at the University of Bristol, working on breath and death in the poetry of…
Vocal coach, community choir and workshop leader and music therapist Phoene Cave writes: In 2008 I answered an advertisement for…
In this essay, senior investigator Havi Carel recounts her experience of being diagnosed with a rare respiratory condition as a…
Jess Farr-Cox, Life of Breath Project Manager (Bristol) and her father David Scoins, lifelong runner (green vest, above), sometime sports…
Kate Binnie, yoga teacher and music therapist, shares a memory of a hospice patient: Paula wakes early every day and…
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