A Tobacco-Free New Zealand by 2025? Lecture (Durham)
To mark No Smoking Day we welcomed public health and behaviour specialist Dr Marewa Glover to Durham University. Dr Glover (Massey University) is…
Chemical Youth Lecture (Durham)
What do chemical and pharmaceutical substances, both legal and illicit, ‘do’ for youth? This is the question posed by the…
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…
The breath between: art, film, mortality, and AIR
Jenny Chamarette (writer, curator and film scholar and Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Queen Mary University of London), and Anna…
Epistemic Injustice and Illness
Both patients and doctors complain of problems communicating with each other. Senior investigator Havi Carel and Ian Kidd consider the possible roots of this….
Affective Reading: Chaucer, Women, and Romance
Understanding how thoughts and feelings can affect the body is a key strand of our research. Here, team member Corinne Saunders explores how the interaction…
Drawing Breath
Throughout 2016 The Lancet Respiratory Medicine journal will feature the work of Jayne Wilton, visual artist and Life of Breath project…
With bated breath: diagnosis of respiratory illness
In this essay, senior investigator Havi Carel recounts her experience of being diagnosed with a rare respiratory condition as a…
Near-death experiences: mortality at Medicine Unboxed
Kate Binnie writes about the recent Medicine Unboxed conference (November 18th-20th, Cheltenham). Next year’s conference is on the theme of wonder…
“If I had to live like you, I think I’d kill myself”: Explaining the Disability Paradox
On 26 November 2015 Havi Carel visited Kings College London to give the Annual Philosophy and Medicine Sowerby Lecture. Her…
Who was chasing him?
Jess Farr-Cox, Life of Breath Project Manager (Bristol) and her father David Scoins, lifelong runner (green vest, above), sometime sports…
‘I need security to survive’
Kate Binnie, yoga teacher and music therapist, shares a memory of a hospice patient: Paula wakes early every day and…
On illness & philosophy: An interview with Havi Carel
In this video Havi Carel is interviewed by Joe Boswell for The University of Bristol’s Centre for Science and Philosophy
Making the Invisible Visible (Durham launch event)
Featured image: from the series ‘Drawing Breath’ by Jayne Wilton Life of Breath at Durham University was formally launched in the…
Understanding Disease and Illness (6th International Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable)
The International Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable (IPMR) is an open group of philosophers, clinicians, epidemiologists, social scientists, statisticians, bioethicists, and…
Bristol Life of Breath Launch Event
The Life of Breath team and guests gathered at Royal Fort House on 14 May 2015 to launch the project…
Invisible suffering: breathlessness in and beyond the clinic
In Life of Breath’s first publication, senior investigators, Havi Carel and Jane Macnaughton, and respiratory clinician James Dodd outline the rationale for…