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…
The Genealogy of Matter in Plotinus, Ennead II.4
11 July 2018, Durham Whilst visiting Durham for our Life of Breath: History, Texts, Contexts conference, Prof. Anthony Long (University…
The Life of Breath: History, Texts, Contexts
10-12 July 2018, Durham Breathing is a basic physiological process, yet also has deep cultural, spiritual and personal meaning. However,…
‘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…
‘Race Correction’ in Medicine: A History of Lung Function Measurements
9 May 2018, Bristol Lung function measurements are routinely ‘corrected’ for race and/or ethnicity transnationally. In this talk, Professor Lundy…
Tobacco: Shape Shifting Substance from South America
20 March 2018, Stockton-on-Tees Durham team member Andrew Russell visits Cafe Scientifique in Stockton to discuss tobacco. Join him to…
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…
The History of All We Breathe
25 August 2017, Edinburgh DECODING THE SECRETS OF THE AIR Science writer Sam Kean traces the origins and ingredients of…
An Encyclopaedia of Breath
19-20 August 2017, Edinburgh Feeling ‘peched oot’ from rushing around the Festival? Pause for a lungful and help Sarah McLusky…
A World of Sighs
13 August 2017, Edinburgh FROM POETRY TO PRAYER Seen historically as a way of maintaining a healthy body and mind…
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…