Health Care History

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    • And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine
    • Auteur(s): Thomas Morris
    • Narrateur(s): Thomas Morris, Ruper Farley
    • Durée: 9 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-11-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 évaluations
    • A puzzling series of dental explosions beginning in the 19th century is just one of many strange tales that have long lain undiscovered in the pages of old medical journals. Award-winning medical historian Thomas Morris delivers a remarkable, cringe-inducing collection of stories....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
    • Auteur(s): Neil Bradbury Ph.D.
    • Narrateur(s): Derek Perkins
    • Durée: 7 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-02-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 évaluations
    • Drawn from historical records and current news headlines, A Taste for Poison weaves together the tales of spurned lovers, shady scientists, medical professionals, and political assassins to show how the precise systems of the body can be impaired to lethal effect....

    Prix courant: 19,42$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A History of Root and Herb Gathering in Appalachia
    • Auteur(s): Luke Manget
    • Narrateur(s): Stephen Bowlby
    • Durée: 9 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-04-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Based on extensive research, Ginseng Diggers: A History of Root and Herb Gathering in Appalachia is the first book to unearth the unique relationship between the Appalachian region and the global trade in medicinal plants....

    Prix courant: 20,24$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
    • Auteur(s): John M. Barry
    • Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
    • Durée: 19 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2006-01-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 142 évaluations
    • In the winter of 1918, at the height of World War I, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
    • Auteur(s): Elinor Cleghorn
    • Narrateur(s): Hanako Footman
    • Durée: 14 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-06-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 évaluations
    • A trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women’s health - from the earliest medical ideas about women’s illnesses to hormones and autoimmune diseases - brought together in a fascinating, sweeping narrative....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Close Calls, Cold Cases, and the Mysteries of Medicine
    • Auteur(s): Brendan Reilly
    • Narrateur(s): Rob Shapiro
    • Durée: 15 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-01-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 évaluations
    • An epic story told by a unique voice in Ameri­can medicine, One Doctor describes life-changing experiences in the career of a distinguished physician....

    Prix courant: 46,30$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 46,30$ ou 1 crédit

    • COVID-19, Avian Flu and the Plagues of Capitalism
    • Auteur(s): Mike Davis
    • Narrateur(s): Stephen R. Thorne
    • Durée: 5 h et 37 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-07-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In this substantially expanded edition of his earlier book The Monster at Our Door, the renowned activist and author Mike Davis looks at the COVID-19 pandemic now sweeping the world....

    Prix courant: 14,47$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
    • Auteur(s): Randy Shilts
    • Narrateur(s): Victor Bevine
    • Durée: 31 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2009-08-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 28 évaluations
    • And the Band Played On is both a tribute to these heroic people and a stinging indictment of the institutions that failed the nation so badly....

    Prix courant: 50,06$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
    • Auteur(s): Robert Whitaker
    • Narrateur(s): Ken Kliban
    • Durée: 13 h et 57 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-05-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 23 évaluations
    • In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection
    • Auteur(s): Sam Apple
    • Narrateur(s): Mark Bramhall
    • Durée: 12 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-05-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • The extraordinary story of the Nazi-era scientific genius who discovered how cancer cells eat - and what it means for how we should....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A True Story
    • Auteur(s): Richard Preston
    • Narrateur(s): Paul Boehmer
    • Durée: 8 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2003-09-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 évaluations
    • The first major bioterror event in the United States - the anthrax attacks in October 2001 - was a clarion call for scientists who work with "hot" agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons....

    Prix courant: 20,92$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Adventures in the Art and Science of Fasting
    • Auteur(s): Steve Hendricks
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Durée: 17 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-09-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • A journalist takes listeners into the science and history of intermittent fasting, an ancient practice in the middle of a red-hot resurgence, exploring the body's power to heal itself....

    Prix courant: 55,98$ ou 1 crédit

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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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    • Medical Care and the Struggle for Survival in the Great War
    • Auteur(s): Tim Cook
    • Narrateur(s): John Fleming
    • Durée: 11 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-09-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • From Canada’s top war historian, a definitive medical history of the Great War, illuminating how the carnage of modern battle gave birth to revolutionary life-saving innovations.

    Prix courant: 32,58$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Hidden History of Medicine and How It Became a Commodity
    • Auteur(s): Karen Bloom Gevirtz
    • Narrateur(s): Elisabeth Lagelee
    • Durée: 9 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-11-12
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Contrary to the familiar story, medication did not improve during the Scientific Revolution. Yet somehow, between 1650 and 1740, the domestic female and the physician switched places in the cultural consciousness.

    Prix courant: 17,53$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): William H. McNeill
    • Narrateur(s): Douglas James
    • Durée: 10 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-05-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The history of disease is the history of humankind: an interpretation of the world as seen through the extraordinary impact—political, demographic, ecological, and psychological—of disease on cultures.

    Prix courant: 32,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 32,00$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Untold Story of Psychiatry
    • Auteur(s): Jeffrey A. Lieberman, Ogi Ogas
    • Narrateur(s): Graham Corrigan
    • Durée: 9 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-03-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 évaluations
    • Psychiatry has come a long way since the days of chaining "lunatics" in cold cells and parading them as freakish marvels before a gaping public....

    Prix courant: 28,27$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
    • Auteur(s): Lindsey Fitzharris
    • Narrateur(s): Daniel Gillies
    • Durée: 8 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-06-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true story of a visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War’s injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgery.

    Prix courant: 19,42$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
    • Auteur(s): David K. Randall
    • Narrateur(s): Charles Constant
    • Durée: 7 h et 50 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-05-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • A spine-chilling saga of virulent racism, human folly, and the ultimate triumph of scientific progress....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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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