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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.
Sharing the unshareable
As part of her residency, Christy Ducker ran a series of writing workshops with Durham and Derwentside Breathe Easy.
Mining Memories with Donald Trump in the Anthropocene (Rose, 2018)
What defines “coal identity politics” and what role might they have had in the election of Donald Trump? In this…
‘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)……
Respiration as Inspiration
Professor David Fuller explores the ways in which breath inspires the writing and performance of poetry and literature.
Reading Breath in Literature (Rose et al, 2019)
At a key moment in Hamlet’s duel with Laertes, Gertrude cries out that Hamlet ‘is fat and scant of breath’…
Breathless in Bristol (3)
Life of Breath PhD student Tina Williams writes: On the 16th and 17th March 2017, The University of Bristol hosted a…
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…
‘Lies, damned lies, and statistics’: mesothelioma in literature
This was the third of a series of responses to the British Lung Foundation‘s Battle for Breath report. This discussion…
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