Macnaughton Jane
Durham University.
Body Soc. 2020 Jun;26(2):30-54. doi: 10.1177/1357034X20902526. Epub 2020 Apr 27.
Breath is invisible and yet ever present and vital for living beings. The concept of invisibility in relation to breath operates in concrete and metaphorical ways to extend ideas about breath and breathlessness across disciplines, in clinical spaces and in life experience. Using a critical medical humanities approach, I demonstrate that the poverty of narrative accounts and language for breath outside the health context have had a crucial influence enabling clinically mediated interpretations and accounts to dominate. These third-person accounts are important in the articulation of the 'lived body', but I balance this with a consideration of the subjective sensation of interoception, which has important implications for the visibility of breathlessness in both clinical and lay contexts. This article illustrates the rich potential of the subjects of breath and breathlessness within body studies and this special issue is a key step in making breath such an emergent topic.
呼吸无形，却始终存在，对生物至关重要。与呼吸相关的无形概念以具体和隐喻的方式发挥作用，将有关呼吸和呼吸急促的观念扩展到各个学科、临床领域以及生活体验中。运用批判性医学人文学科方法，我证明了健康背景之外关于呼吸的叙述和语言的匮乏，对临床介导的解释和描述占据主导地位产生了关键影响。这些第三人称的描述在阐明“活体”方面很重要，但我通过考虑内感受的主观感觉来平衡这一点，这对临床和非专业背景下呼吸急促的可见性具有重要意义。本文阐述了身体研究中呼吸和呼吸急促主题的丰富潜力，而本期特刊是使呼吸成为一个新兴主题的关键一步。
