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Mind, immunity and health

Speaker: Dr. Paul Martin
2nd June 2001

Doctors and laymen have long suspected a link between state of mind and physical well-being, but it is a connection that has been difficult to prove scientifically. In this talk Paul Martin assembles the evidence, showing that a person's state of mind does affect his or her health. He describes how, for example, it might affect the immune system, and how certain psychological traits might cause or hasten conditions such as heart disease or cancer.

Paul Martin studied biology at Cambridge University where he acquired a first in Natural Sciences and a PhD in behavioural biology. He went on to Stanford University where he was a Harkness Fellow. He subsequently lectured and researched at Cambridge University. He is co-author, with Patrick Bateson, of Measuring Behaviour (1993) and Design for Life (paperback, Vintage, 2000). His previous book, The Sickening Mind (1997), explored the relations between the brain, behaviour, immunity and disease.