PAUL MARTIN
The Sickening Mind
Brain, Behaviour, Immunity and Disease
William Collins
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CONTENTS
Iraqi SCUDs and Chinese grandmothers
Some completely fictitious case histories
3 Psyche’s Machine: The Inside Story
The mind – immunity connections
What can the mind do to the immune system?
Bereavement and nuclear disasters