Health Care History

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    • Auteur(s): Steven Johnson
    • Narrateur(s): Alan Sklar
    • Durée: 8 h et 38 min
    • Date de publication: 2006-12-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 évaluations
    • This is a thrilling historical account of the worst cholera outbreak in Victorian London and a brilliant exploration of how Dr. John Snow's solution revolutionized the way we think about disease....

    Prix courant: 20,04$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
    • Auteur(s): Adam Rutherford
    • Narrateur(s): Greg Patmore
    • Durée: 7 h et 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-03-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Control is a book about what geneticist Adam Rutherford calls “a defining idea of the twentieth century.” Inspired by Darwin’s ideas about evolution, eugenics arose in Victorian England as a theory for improving the British population, and quickly spread to America....

    Prix courant: 17,66$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Mass Psychogenic Illness and the Real Story Behind the Embassy Mystery and Hysteria
    • Auteur(s): Robert E. Bartholomew, Robert W. Baloh
    • Narrateur(s): George Newbern
    • Durée: 9 h et 3 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-09-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A scientific detective story and a case study in the social construction of mass psychogenic illness....

    Prix courant: 20,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for ""Enough""
    • Auteur(s): Emma Specter
    • Narrateur(s): Erin deWard
    • Durée: 6 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-07-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • More, Please is a chronicle of a lifelong fixation with food, as well as an examination of the ways in which compulsory thinness, diet culture, and the seductive promise of “wellness” have resulted in warping countless Americans’ relationship with healthy eating.

    Prix courant: 32,62$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 32,62$ ou 1 crédit

    • Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid
    • Auteur(s): William D. Lopez
    • Narrateur(s): Robert Fass
    • Durée: 6 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-09-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • On a Thursday in November of 2013, Guadalupe Morales waited anxiously with her sister-in-law and their four small children. Every Latino man who drove away from their shared apartment above a small auto repair shop that day had failed to return - arrested, one by one, by ICE agents....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox
    • Auteur(s): Jonathan B. Tucker
    • Narrateur(s): Patrick Cullen
    • Durée: 9 h et 38 min
    • Date de publication: 2004-05-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Smallpox, the only infectious disease to have been eradicated, was one of the most terrifying of human scourges....

    Prix courant: 19,99$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
    • Auteur(s): Thomas Hager
    • Narrateur(s): Angelo Di Loreto
    • Durée: 8 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-03-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 évaluations
    • Beginning with opium, the “joy plant,” which has been used for 10,000 years, Thomas Hager tells a captivating story of medicine. His subjects include the largely forgotten female pioneer who introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain, the infamous knockout drops, and much more....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • One Man's Fight to End the Global HIV Epidemic
    • Auteur(s): Seema Yasmin, Mabel van Oranje - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Seema Yasmin
    • Durée: 7 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-06-04
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Dr. Lange graduated from medical school in 1981, right as a new plague swept across the globe. His story became intertwined with the story of HIV. At once a physician, scientist, AIDS activist, and medical diplomat, Lange studied ways to battle HIV and prevent its spread....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
    • Auteur(s): Kevin Hazzard
    • Narrateur(s): Gilbert Glenn Brown
    • Durée: 9 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-09-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the world....

    Prix courant: 28,27$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Story of Inflammation, Diet, and Disease
    • Auteur(s): Shilpa Ravella
    • Narrateur(s): Suzie Althens
    • Durée: 12 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-10-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Gastroenterologist Shilpa Ravella takes us on a lyrical quest across time, around the world, and into the body to reveal hidden inflammation at the root of modern disease―and how we can control it....

    Prix courant: 22,97$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Ebola and the Ravages of History
    • Auteur(s): Paul Farmer
    • Narrateur(s): Pete Cross
    • Durée: 22 h et 5 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-11-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 évaluations
    • In 2014, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea suffered the worst epidemic of Ebola in history. The brutal virus spread rapidly through a clinical desert, where basic health-care facilities were few and far between....

    Prix courant: 49,47$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A People's History of Monopoly Medicine from Aspirin to COVID-19 Vaccines
    • Auteur(s): Alexander Zaitchik
    • Narrateur(s): Johnny Heller
    • Durée: 9 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-03-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Owning the Sun tells the story of one of the most contentious fights in human history: the legal right to control the production of lifesaving medicines....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Harrowing Journey of a Cruise Ship at the Dawn of a Pandemic
    • Auteur(s): Michael Smith, Jonathan Franklin
    • Narrateur(s): George Newbern
    • Durée: 8 h et 17 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-06-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • In early 2020, the world was on edge. An ominous virus was spreading on different continents, and no one knew what the coming weeks would bring. Far from the hot spots, the cruise ship Zaandam, owned by Holland America, was preparing to sail from Buenos Aires, Argentina....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How the Battle Against a Polio Epidemic Revolutionized Modern Medical Care
    • Auteur(s): Hannah Wunsch
    • Narrateur(s): Emily Durante
    • Durée: 10 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-01-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The Autumn Ghost will leave listeners in awe of the courage of those who battled the polio epidemic, and grateful for the modern medical care they pioneered....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Scientist's Warning
    • Auteur(s): Peter J. Hotez MD PhD
    • Narrateur(s): Graham Winton
    • Durée: 6 h et 6 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-10-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • In this eyewitness story of how the anti-vaccine movement grew into a dangerous and prominent anti-science element in American politics, Dr. Peter J. Hotez describes the devastating impacts it has had on Americans’ health and lives....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Disease and the Course of Human History
    • Auteur(s): Kyle Harper
    • Narrateur(s): Tim Fannon
    • Durée: 19 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-12-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Plagues upon the Earth tells the story of how pathogenic microbes have been an intimate part of human history from the beginning - and how our deadliest germs and biggest pandemics are the product of our success as a species....

    Prix courant: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
    • Auteur(s): Luke Dittrich
    • Narrateur(s): George Newbern
    • Durée: 14 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-08-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • In 1953, a 27-year-old factory worker named Henry Molaison - who suffered from severe epilepsy - received a radical new version of the then-common lobotomy, targeting the most mysterious structures in the brain....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe
    • Auteur(s): William Rosen
    • Narrateur(s): Barrett Whitener
    • Durée: 11 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2007-05-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • The emperor Justinian reunified Rome's fractured empire by defeating the Goths and Vandals. Then, in the summer of 542, he encountered a flea....

    Prix courant: 22,82$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Rabies, Medicine, and Society in an American Metropolis, 1840-1920
    • Auteur(s): Jessica Wang
    • Narrateur(s): Xe Sands
    • Durée: 9 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-10-29
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Rabies enjoys a fearsome and lurid reputation. In Mad Dogs and Other New Yorkers, Jessica Wang examines the history of this rare but dreaded affliction during a time of rapid urbanization....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Florence Nightingale
    • Narrateur(s): Nadia May
    • Durée: 3 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-09-01
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Notes on Nursing is a classic by Florence Nightingale (the first modern nurse). Florence Nightingale's methods were revolutionary in her time....

    Prix courant: 12,23$ ou 1 crédit

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