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…
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Botanicals for breathlessness
The Royal College of Physicians' medicinal garden is home to a variety of plants used to cure different respiratory illnesses.
Anthropology of Tobacco (Russell, 2019)
How do we understand the relationship between tobacco and humans in light of the fact that tobacco has become one…
‘Sing Sweetly for Tobacco’
Project Manager Sarah looks at some of the work by Life of Breath researcher Prof Andrew Russell.
Breathtaking books
One of the curator's hardest jobs is choosing what not to include in an exhibition. Find out what we couldn't…
Breathing through oxygen technology in Uruguay and South Africa (Wainwright, 2018)
Life of Breath collaborator Dr. Megan Wainwright introduces her new paper “Exploring ambivalent human-oxygen technology-world relations through the lens of Postphenomenlogy”…
Smog in a Time of Tobacco Control (Russell, 2017)
While in Delhi for a recent UN convention on tobacco control, anthropologist Andrew Russell reports on widespread ‘astroturfing’ – large…
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…
‘With wide lungs’: smoking, wind and air in W. Somerset Maugham’s The Merry-Go-Round
Jess Farr-Cox, Project Manager (Bristol) writes: The Merry-Go-Round is not as well-known as other works by W. Somerset Maugham, such…
Means and ENDS – e-cigarettes, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and global health diplomacy in action
Can e-cigarettes (also called electronic nicotine delivery systems or ENDS) help curb smoking or are they just a smoke screen allowing tobacco…
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