Catch Your Breath Online Exhibition
Stop where you are and take a deep breath.How does it feel?What does it make you think?How many breaths have…
Dust to dust (McGuire, 2019)
Black lung is a disease often relegated to the domain of the history book. But can historical research tell us…
‘Race Correction’ in Medicine: A History of Lung Function Measurements
The Life of Breath project was delighted to host Professor Lundy Braun in Bristol recently to speak at our bi-annual…
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…
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…
The uses and abuses of air (1)
The header shows Ascent of Lunardi’s Balloon from St George’s Fields, London, 1788-90 by J. C. Ibbetson, which will be…
Restoring Breath: Questions, medical advancements and the importance of bystander participation
Tina Williams, PhD student on the Life of Breath project, writes a post prompted by the inaugural lecture of Prof….
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…
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…
Way up high
Jess Farr-Cox (Project Manager, Bristol) writes: Our recent official launch of the project was in many ways a model of…