Exploring the logic of respiration
Music & Mindful Yoga Therapist Kate Binnie joined Life of Breath as a researcher in January 2018. She writes: I…
Chronic breathlessness: re-thinking the symptom (Macnaughton et al, 2018)
The Life of Breath team, like our colleagues at Breathe Oxford, recently responded to the proposal that defining chronic breathlessness as…
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…
Chronic breathlessness: re-thinking the symptom (Faull et al, 2018)
Recently it was proposed that defining chronic breathlessness as a syndrome might raise awareness of its impact on people’s lives…
Imaging and Imagining COPD (Wainwright, 2017)
What do people with COPD think their lungs look like? Ideas about what is going on inside the body can…
Listening to the past
How do we accurately measure hearing loss? In a new paper in The British Journal for the History of Science, Life of Breath researcher…
Scientific and artistic identities
Who makes comics about science, and why? Life of Breath Project Administrator Jordan Collver explores the intersection of science and art in…
Curious about breath at the Oxford Curiosity Carnival
Music therapist and writer Kate Binnie writes: Friday 29th September saw Oxford’s City Centre transformed by the Curiosity Carnival. This University-organised event…
Measuring Breath: from cadavers to spirometers
New Life of Breath post-doctoral researcher Coreen McGuire introduces her research: Last seen fleeing the scene of the crime, the suspect…
Medievalism and the Medical Humanities
Some may wonder why our project includes the consideration of medieval thoughts and practices relating to the breath. What can…
Breath Control: Note Collection
Artist Caroline Wright writes: Earlier this year, a two-day project called Space to Breathe took place at Somerset House in…
COPD, culture, climate and the sensation of breathlessness in Uruguay
Dr Megan Wainwright is an international collaborator on the Life of Breath project. She is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at…
It Felt Like Drowning
The header image shows ‘In the same breath’, a 2008 artwork by artist and glass-blower Kate Williams (borosilicate glass /…
Cynicism as a strategic virtue
Cynicism is often associated with indifference and fatalism – traits which are undoubtedly undesirable among healthcare professionals. However, in this article the…
Under the Surface
Composer and academic Toby Young writes: ‘Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living and art…
A phenomenology of illness, part 2
Following on from part 1, Life of Breath PI Havi Carel writes: What is breathlessness? This is a seemingly simple…
A year of inspiration
Throughout 2016 our collaborator Jayne Wilton created unique and beautiful breath-inspired artworks to grace the cover of The Lancet Respiratory…
OBE for Life of Breath team member
We are thrilled to share the news that one of our project team, Prof Gene Feder, has been awarded an OBE…
A Painful Silence: bringing domestic violence into conversation
The header image shows a representation of the three wise monkeys, see no evil, hear no evil and speak no…
Take a Breath at Celebrate Science 2016
We challenged visitors to Durham University’s Celebrate Science marquee to do something unusual with their breath – either use it…
Breathe Easy Durham Dales at Breathing Space
The header photograph was taken by Paul Waine, and shows Bev Wears of the British Lung Foundation and Rebecca Oxley,…
Wanted: Singing for Lung Health leaders!
Funded by the British Lung Foundation, Singing for Lung Health leaders take music into hospital wards, teaching and encouraging patients…
Phenomenology and hermeneutics
Life of Breath PI Havi Carel has contributed a chapter on phenomenology and hermeneutics to the Routledge Companion to Philosophy…
Epistemic injustice in psychiatry
Life of Breath PI Havi Carel explores epistemic injustice in psychiatry with Paul Crichton and Ian James Kidd in a…