Bill Moyers' Healing and the Mind series aired on PBS circa 1993.
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Healing And The Mind
The Excerpt
The following is an excerpt from an interview by Bill Moyers, in the
Healing and the Mind series, with Dr. David Spiegel of Stanford
Medical Center at Palo Alto, California:
Moyers: Is there any scientific evidence for the fact that isolation is
bad for your health?
Spiegel: There is as strong a relationship between being socially connected
and not being as likely to die as there is between cholesterol
and mortality or between smoking and mortality. It's a powerful
relationship.
Moyers: We don't know how.
Spiegel: We don't know how. But we know that it's true. Married cancer
patients live longer, all other things being equal, than
unmarried cancer patients.
Moyers: Married men live longer, I understand, than bachelors.
Spiegel: Well it's actually true. The kind of social support that immunizes
you in a sense, for men, is marriage -- is being related to a
woman. For women it's not marital status; it's relationships with
other women, which lead me to the unhappy conclusion that having
a relationship with a man doesn't do your health much good
regardless of your own gender.
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