Living anatomy
Catherine explores the magical-inner workings of our bodies and the breath, through art, movement, and sound.
illness
RCP exhibition highlights
Watch a video tour showing some of the highlights of the RCP exhibition.
Catching our breath
A summary of Catch Your Breath's closing day at the Royal College of Physicians' Open House with artist Jayne Wilton.
The Book of Jo
Theatre maker Viv Gordon explains how she came to create her theatre work The Book of Jo.
The COPD support group
Senior Research Associate on the Life of Breath project, clinical music therapist and mindful yoga teacher Kate Binnie visited a…
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…
‘The troubled breath of so many’: On Sam Guglani’s “Histories”
Life of Breath Principle Investigator Prof Havi Carel explores themes of breath and illness in Sam Guglani‘s novel Histories (Riverrun, 2017)……
Phenomenology’s contribution to health and illness
A new book on phenomenology and illness entitled Existential Medicine: Essays on Health and Illness is now out, with a chapter by…
Graphic Medicine: Breathing new insights into illness narratives with comics
Brian Callender is an internal medicine physician from the University of Chicago interested in the health humanities, with a focus on…
Exploring the logic of respiration
Music & Mindful Yoga Therapist Kate Binnie joined Life of Breath as a researcher in January 2018. She writes: I…
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