Health Care History

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    • Our Greatest Triumphs in the Race to Cure Humanity's Deadliest Diseases
    • Auteur(s): Andrew Lam
    • Narrateur(s): Jason Vu
    • Durée: 10 h et 42 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-06-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Dr. Andrew Lam, an award-winning author and retinal surgeon, distills the long arc of medical progress down to the crucial moments that were responsible for the world's greatest medical miracles....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Your Comprehensive Guide to the Manipulative Psychology, Malformed Philosophy, and Misrepresented Science that Supercharged a Global Hysteria
    • Auteur(s): Dr. Philip Buckler
    • Narrateur(s): Philip Buckler
    • Durée: 19 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-11-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • If you have ever worn a mask against your better judgement, this book is for you. Delve into the science, psychology, and philosophy involved in the worldwide mania for face coverings....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Terrifying Story of How Typhus Killed Napoleon's Greatest Army
    • Auteur(s): Stephan Talty
    • Narrateur(s): Stephen Hoye
    • Durée: 9 h et 27 min
    • Date de publication: 2009-06-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In the spring of 1812, Napoleon Bonaparte was at the height of his powers. Forty-five million called him emperor, and he commanded a nation that was the richest, most cultured, and advanced on earth....

    Prix courant: 20,40$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Thomas Hager
    • Narrateur(s): Stephen Hoye
    • Durée: 12 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2006-10-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 évaluations
    • Fast-paced, suspenseful, and utterly satisfying, The Demon Under the Microscope is a sweeping history of the discovery of the first antibiotic and its dramatic effect on the world....

    Prix courant: 23,38$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
    • Auteur(s): Jim Downs
    • Narrateur(s): David Colacci
    • Durée: 9 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-05-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Most stories of medical progress come with ready-made heroes. John Snow traced the origins of London's 1854 cholera outbreak to a water pump, leading to the birth of epidemiology....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
    • Auteur(s): Stacy Horn
    • Narrateur(s): Pam Ward
    • Durée: 10 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-05-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell's Island. There, over the next hundred years, the city would build a lunatic asylum, prison, hospital, workhouse, and almshouse....

    Prix courant: 33,40$ 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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    • A Deadly Genetic Disease, a New Era in Science, and the Patients and Families Who Changed Medicine Forever
    • Auteur(s): Bijal P. Trivedi
    • Narrateur(s): Deepti Gupta
    • Durée: 20 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-12-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • Cystic fibrosis was once a mysterious disease that killed infants and children. Now it could be the key to healing millions with genetic diseases of every type - from Alzheimer's and Parkinson's to diabetes and sickle cell anemia....

    Prix courant: 41,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Posture Panic in Modern America
    • Auteur(s): Beth Linker
    • Narrateur(s): Laurel Lefkow
    • Durée: 11 h et 18 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-04-09
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • This audiobook recounts the strange and surprising history of the so-called epidemic of bad posture in modern America—from eugenics and posture pageants to today’s promoters of “paleo posture”....

    Prix courant: 30,25$ ou 1 crédit

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    • History, Behavior, Training, Fieldwork, Traveling, and Health Care for Your New GSP Puppy
    • Auteur(s): Dr. Joanna de Klerk
    • Narrateur(s): Rebecca Emily
    • Durée: 5 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-10-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The German shorthaired pointer, or GSP, is an exceptionally versatile hunting dog that was bred in Germany in the 19th century. Like all pointer breeds, GSPs are very capable of spotting and quietly drawing attention to their quarry....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Your Perfect Maltipoo Guide Maltipoo, Maltipoos, Maltipoo Puppies, Maltipoo Dogs, Maltipoo Breeders, Maltipoo Care, Maltipoo Training, Health, Behavior, Grooming, Breeding, History and More!
    • Auteur(s): Matthew Masterson
    • Narrateur(s): Ken Johnson
    • Durée: 3 h et 17 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-06-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Maltipoo Bible and Maltipoos is your complete Maltipoo audiobook guide! You will discover all the proven Insider Maltipoo Secrets you’ll need to have the very best experience with your Maltipoo. The Maltipoo breed is very unique, as is about to be revealed....

    Prix courant: 18,74$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): DK
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Oliver
    • Durée: 16 h et 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-03-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • This audiobook explores big questions like these, explaining the breakthroughs and discoveries that have shaped our modern-day understanding of medicine and helped us protect and promote our health....

    Prix courant: 29,14$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic
    • Auteur(s): Gay Salisbury, Laney Salisbury
    • Narrateur(s): Barrett Whitener
    • Durée: 9 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2003-11-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • The thrilling account of a dog sled race across Alaska in 1925 to head off a deadly epidemic...

    Prix courant: 23,14$ 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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    • A Memoir of Love and Fate
    • Auteur(s): Ami McKay
    • Narrateur(s): Ami McKay
    • Durée: 9 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-09-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 évaluations
    • Weaving together family history, genetic discovery, and scenes from her life, Ami McKay tells the compelling, true-science story of her own family's unsettling legacy of hereditary cancer....

    Prix courant: 30,30$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness
    • Auteur(s): Jack El-Hai
    • Narrateur(s): Peter Lerman
    • Durée: 15 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-03-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • The Lobotomist explores one of the darkest chapters of American medicine: the desperate attempt to treat the hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients in need of help during the middle decades of the 20th century....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System
    • Auteur(s): Steven Brill
    • Narrateur(s): Dan Woren
    • Durée: 17 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-01-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • America’s Bitter Pill is Steven Brill’s acclaimed book on how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was written, how it is being implemented, and, most important, how it is changing—and failing to change—the rampant abuses in the healthcare industry....

    Prix courant: 29,14$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Galen in the Roman Empire
    • Auteur(s): Susan P. Mattern
    • Narrateur(s): James Patrick Cronin
    • Durée: 10 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-06-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Galen of Pergamum (A.D. 129-ca. 216) began his remarkable career tending to wounded gladiators in provincial Asia Minor....

    Prix courant: 33,01$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom
    • Auteur(s): Kathryn Olivarius
    • Narrateur(s): Janet Metzger
    • Durée: 13 h et 51 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-09-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • The question of health is always in part political. Necropolis shows how powerful nineteenth-century white Orleanians pushed this politics to the extreme. They constructed a society that capitalized mortal risk and equated perceived immunity with creditworthiness and reliability....

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    • How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentlemen Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail
    • Auteur(s): Stephen Bown
    • Narrateur(s): Dan Cashman
    • Durée: 7 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-05-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • From the 15th to the mid-19th centuries, scurvy caused more deaths at sea than storms, shipwrecks, combat, and all other diseases combined. The cure for scurvy ranks among the greatest of military successes, yet its impact on history has mostly been ignored....

    Prix courant: 25,20$ ou 1 crédit

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