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2004:
Hour Two: Hope and Medicine / 'Mind Wide Open'
We've all heard stories about medical patients who are able to endure in the face of tremendous adversity, seemingly sustained merely by the power of will. In this hour, Ira talks with physician, researcher, and medical writer Jerome Groopman on what thirty years in medicine has taught him about hope and its role in healing. What's the difference between hope, faith, and optimism?
Plus, we'll delve into the neuroscience of everyday life with guest Steven Johnson, author of "Mind Wide Open." Can knowing how your brain works help you get promoted or improve your interpersonal relationships? Could it affect your golf game? Johnson set out to subject himself to a variety of high-tech brain tests to try to find out what the latest in neuroscience could tell him, personally, about his own mind.
This program is pre-recorded, so please don't try to call in. Have a safe and happy Thanksgiving holiday!
Guests:
Jerome Groopman, M.D.
Author, "The
Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness"
Dina and Raphael Recanati Chair of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Chief of Experimental Medicine
Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts
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Steven Johnson
"Mind
Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life," (Scribner,
2004); "Emergence:
The Connected Lives of Brains, Ants, Cities, and Software," (Scribner,
2001)
"Emerging Technologies" Columnist, Discover Magazine
New York, New York
This segment produced by Annette Heist and Karin Vergoth
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Related Links:
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MSNBC
- The Trouble With Optimism
Books/Articles Discussed:
'The
Anatomy of Hope : How People Prevail in the Face of Illness' by Jerome
Groopman. Random House, 2003.
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