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15/01/2011 GMT

Mindfulness with Jon Kabat Zinn, story telling and medical treatment with Vincent Lam, plus Hans Rosling on the power of statistics.

Jon Kabat-Zinn is known throughout the world for his pioneering work in applying meditation or mindfulness to mainstream medical treatment.

Hans Rosling, once a medical field officer in Mozambique, now designs new ways to visualise global statistics in order to get us all to shake up our outdated views of the world.

And Vincent Lam has transformed his night shifts on emergency hospital wards into a gritty and sometimes gruesome best selling novel.

llustration by Emily Kasriel: Mindfully inverting the mind body relationship as doctors use statistics to create and challenge the stories that they tell themselves and their patients to heal.

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50 minutes

Last on

Mon 17 Jan 2011 01:05GMT

Chapters

  • Jon Kabat-Zinn

    Power of mindfulness.

    Duration: 16:34

  • SIXTY SECOND IDEA TO CHANGE THE WORLD

    Recycling should start at the point of manufacture.

    Duration: 06:26

  • Hans Rosling

    New ways to visualise health statistics.

    Duration: 13:20

  • Vincent Lam

    Story telling at the heart of medical treatment.

    Duration: 09:40

Broadcasts

  • Sat 15 Jan 2011 22:05GMT
  • Sun 16 Jan 2011 09:05GMT
  • Mon 17 Jan 2011 01:05GMT

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