The COPD support group
Senior Research Associate on the Life of Breath project, clinical music therapist and mindful yoga teacher Kate Binnie visited a…
critical medical humanities
Medievalism and the Medical Humanities
Some may wonder why our project includes the consideration of medieval thoughts and practices relating to the breath. What can…
Managing expectations? Cynicism and the medical humanities
Durham post-doc Arthur Rose writes; According to Diogenes Laertius, the Ancient Greek cynic Diogenes of Sinope ‘died voluntarily by holding…
Cynicism as a strategic virtue
Cynicism is often associated with indifference and fatalism – traits which are undoubtedly undesirable among healthcare professionals. However, in this article the…
Why is breathlessness invisible?
This was the first of a series of responses to the British Lung Foundation‘s Battle for Breath report. This discussion…
Breath in the technoscientific imaginary
Here, Durham researcher Arthur Rose explores breath as a theme, metaphor and plot device in Science Fiction. Whether used to convey a sense of…
Breathing and Breathlessness in Clinic and Culture
Our PIs, Jane Macnaughton and Havi Carel have contributed a chapter on breathing and breathlessness to a new book, ‘The Edinburgh Companion…
Drawing Breath
Throughout 2016, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine journal will feature the work of Jayne Wilton, visual artist and Life of Breath project…
Way up high
Jess Farr-Cox (Project Manager, Bristol) writes: Our recent official launch of the project was in many ways a model of…
Breathless in Århus
PI on the Life of Breath project Jane Macnaughton writes about the SPSP conference: Like many port areas in major cities in…
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