A matter of life and breath
View presentations from Life of Breath researchers, drawing on a range of different perspectives, including the lived experience of breathlessness,…
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Plants and the Lungs trail
The exhibition might have left the RCP, but the medicinal garden is there to stay. Explore RCP medicinal garden with…
RCP’s Catch Your Breath
Explore this unique version of the Catch Your Breath exhibition and its collections at the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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…
Breathtaking books
One of the curator's hardest jobs is choosing what not to include in an exhibition. Find out what we couldn't…
Spirometry: Is ‘normal’ what it seems?
Spirometers, like other medical technologies, need a definition of 'normal' to quantify 'abnormal'. But how reliable is this baseline?
‘Race Correction’ in Medicine: A History of Lung Function Measurements
The Life of Breath project was delighted to host Professor Lundy Braun in Bristol recently to speak at our bi-annual…
Listening to the past
How do we accurately measure hearing loss? In a new paper in The British Journal for the History of Science, Life of Breath researcher…
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…
The uses and abuses of air (1)
The header shows Ascent of Lunardi’s Balloon from St George’s Fields, London, 1788-90 by J. C. Ibbetson, which will be…
2015-2020