The COPD support group
Senior Research Associate on the Life of Breath project, clinical music therapist and mindful yoga teacher Kate Binnie visited a…
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Deep Breaths to Deep Learning: the future of breathing
This article was originally published by Box1824 Ponto Eletronico as part of their “Future of Breathing” series. Material curator Becky…
Dust to dust (McGuire, 2019)
Black lung is a disease often relegated to the domain of the history book. But can historical research tell us…
‘Letter to my Breath’ at Fun Palaces, Bristol
Life of Breath collaborator Elspeth Penny writes about her experience facilitating a “Letter to my Breath” workshop at Barton Hill…
Chronic breathlessness: re-thinking the symptom (Macnaughton et al, 2018)
The Life of Breath team, like our colleagues at Breathe Oxford, recently responded to the proposal that defining chronic breathlessness as…
Chronic breathlessness: re-thinking the symptom (Faull et al, 2018)
Recently it was proposed that defining chronic breathlessness as a syndrome might raise awareness of its impact on people’s lives…
From magic mineral to deadly dust
This guest post, to mark Mesothelioma Awareness Day (26 September), is from the Mesothelioma Cancer Alliance. Most people probably don’t…
Lost in Translation? Exploring the language of breathlessness
Life of Breath post-doctoral researcher Rebecca Oxley writes: ‘Breath Lab’ is designed as a living experiment to promote discussion around…
Eight things that have changed since the smoking ban ten years ago
This post was originally published by The Conversation. Anthropologist and Life of Breath team member Andrew Russell writes: It’s hard to…
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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