‘Don’t drink the water and don’t breathe the air!’
David Scoins (lifelong runner, sometime sports teacher) spent seven years in China; a year or more in each of Xi’an, Nanjing,…
Metaphysics and Heavy Breathing (or Tippett’s Fourth Symphony)
Composer Toby Young writes: Tippett’s Fourth Symphony is a vast and complex tone poem, concerned with life, death and the…
Thinking Breath
Arthur Rose, post-doctoral researcher on the Life of Breath project, writes: The supplementary task in any interdisciplinary work worth its…
Making the invisible visible (2)
Rebecca Oxley, post-doctoral research fellow on the Life of Breath project, writes about the recent project launch in Durham (see…
Breathless in Bristol (2)
PhD student on the Life of Breath project Tina Williams, writes about the recent Philosophy of Medicine conference, with help…
Breathless in Bristol (1)
PhD student on the Life of Breath project Tina Williams, writes about the recent Philosophy of Medicine conference, with help…
“This is what my breath looks like”
Nicola Caroli, breath teacher, writes: “This is what my breath looks like and when you have no breath you can…
Making the invisible visible (1)
Sarah McLusky, Project Manager (Durham) writes: What is breath? We all know what it feels like. We can perceive the…
‘All his heart was cold’
In honour of the Glastonbury Festival, Jess Farr-Cox, Project Manager (Bristol) writes a post with an Arthurian flavour (see also ‘Arthur’s…
Way up high
Jess Farr-Cox (Project Manager, Bristol) writes: Our recent official launch of the project was in many ways a model of…
Air and climate: an historical introduction
Mike Emanuel, Research Associate at Oxford Brookes University, Department of History, Philosophy and Religion, writes: In the fifth century BC, Hippocrates, in ‘On…
The riddle of breathlessness
Dr. Nabil Jarad, Consultant Respiratory Physician at Bristol Royal Infirmary and School of Clinical Sciences, University of Bristol, writes: ‘I…
Breathless in Århus
PI on the Life of Breath project Jane Macnaughton writes about the SPSP conference: Like many port areas in major cities in…
Post-doctoral researchers on the Life of Breath project
The Life of Breath project is recruiting two new post-doctoral researchers, to be based at the Centre for Medical Humanities,…
‘Sing sweetly for tobacco!’
In the second of a series of posts about smoking (see also ‘A three-pipe problem’), Project Manager (Bristol) on the…
Breathless in Oxford
Tina Williams, PhD student on the Life of Breath, writes: On the 27th & 28th March, the Oxford Phenomenology Network…
‘A physical event’
Project Manager (Bristol) for Life of Breath Jess Farr-Cox writes: I have written elsewhere (see ‘Taking a deep breath’) about the…
Portrait Therapy for Life Support?
Susan M D Carr, art therapist at the Prospect Hospice and PhD Student at Loughborough University, writes: I was in…
A three-pipe problem
In the first of a series of posts on smoking (see also ‘Sing sweetly for tobacco!‘), Jess Farr-Cox (Project Manager (Bristol)…
Signal failure? Thinking outside the lung
Physiotherapist and Bradcliff practitioner Pip Windsor writes: How can a symptom of chronic over-breathing be a feeling of lack of air? How…
‘Matter in these sighs’: notes on holy breathing
Naya Tsentourou from the University of Exeter writes: In John Milton’s Paradise Lost prayer is defined as ‘one short sigh…
Durham Project Manager for the Life of Breath Project
The Centre for Medical Humanities (CMH) at Durham University is looking to appoint a Project Manager to for the Life…
‘There is something in there’
Project Manager (Bristol) for Life of Breath Jess Farr-Cox writes: The second Breathing Space meeting (see ‘Taking a deep breath’ for an…
‘To breathe is all that is required’
Knowledge Exchange Facilitator (Humanities) Cleo Hanaway-Oakley at the University of Oxford writes: Cry, inspire, expire, and cry. This single short sentence provides…