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…
“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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Post-doctoral research position
Project Manager (Bristol) on the Life of Breath Jess Farr-Cox writes: We’re currently advertising for a new post-doc on the Life…