Health Care History

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    • A Medical Mystery
    • Auteur(s): D.T. Max
    • Narrateur(s): Grover Gardner
    • Durée: 8 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2006-10-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 évaluations
    • For 200 years, a noble Venetian family has suffered from an inherited disease that strikes their members in middle age, stealing their sleep, eating holes in their brains....

    Prix courant: 27,77$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Life, Death, and Politics at Chicago’s Public Hospital
    • Auteur(s): David A. Ansell MD
    • Narrateur(s): Bronson Pinchot
    • Durée: 7 h et 6 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-10-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • The amazing tale of County is the story of one of America's oldest and most unusual urban hospitals....

    Prix courant: 17,12$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis
    • Auteur(s): Sherwin B. Nuland
    • Narrateur(s): Peter Lerman
    • Durée: 5 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-06-30
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Ignác Semmelweis is remembered for the now-commonplace notion that doctors must wash their hands before examining patients. In mid-19th century Vienna, however, this was a subversive idea. Semmelweis discovered that doctors themselves were spreading the disease....

    Prix courant: 14,47$ 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
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    • 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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    • 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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    • The Modern Pharmaceutical Industry and the Betrayal of a History of Care
    • Auteur(s): Michael Kinch, Lori Weiman, Mark Cuban - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): John McLain
    • Durée: 14 h et 54 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-04-06
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Medicines are arguably the most highly regulated - and cost-inflated - products in the United States. The Price of Health is the reveals the story of how the pharmaceutical enterprise took shape and led to the present crisis....

    Prix courant: 40,39$ ou 1 crédit

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    • When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far
    • Auteur(s): Paul A. Offit
    • Narrateur(s): Tim H. Dixon
    • Durée: 7 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-04-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • An acclaimed medical expert and patient advocate offers an eye-opening look at many common and widely used medical interventions that have been shown to be far more harmful than helpful....

    Prix courant: 24,46$ ou 1 crédit

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    • From the Black Death to the Present
    • Auteur(s): Frank M. Snowden
    • Narrateur(s): Eric Jason Martin
    • Durée: 23 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-09-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • A multidisciplinary and comparative investigation of the medical and social history of the major epidemics, this volume touches on themes such as the evolution of medical therapy, plague literature, poverty, the environment, and mass hysteria....

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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....

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    • America’s Untested, Unregulated Medical Device Industry and One Man’s Battle to Survive It
    • Auteur(s): Jeanne Lenzer
    • Narrateur(s): Jeanne Lenzer
    • Durée: 10 h et 6 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-12-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • The majority of high-risk implanted medical devices have never undergone a single clinical trial. The FDA lets device manufacturers decide whether to report serious complications or deaths....

    Prix courant: 28,27$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Untold Story of the American Women Trapped on Bataan
    • Auteur(s): Elizabeth M. Norman
    • Narrateur(s): Dina Pearlman
    • Durée: 11 h et 54 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-08-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • We Band of Angels is the story of women searching for adventure, caught up in the drama and danger of war.

    Prix courant: 33,01$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A History
    • Auteur(s): Thomas Helling MD
    • Narrateur(s): Mack Sanderson
    • Durée: 11 h et 23 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-03-01
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • A startling narrative, The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine reveals the impressive medical and surgical advances that quickly developed as solutions to the horrors unleashed by World War I....

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    • Auteur(s): Mark Jackson
    • Narrateur(s): Tom Alexander
    • Durée: 7 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-03-01
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Acclaimed historian Mark Jackson takes a fresh global view of mankind’s great battle to stave off death and disease, exploring both Western and Eastern traditions....

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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
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    • 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....

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    • How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
    • Auteur(s): Janice P. Nimura
    • Narrateur(s): Laural Merlington
    • Durée: 11 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-01-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope of "ordinary" womanhood....

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    • A History of Opium
    • Auteur(s): Lucy Inglis
    • Narrateur(s): Colleen Prendergast
    • Durée: 13 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-08-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Poppy tears, opium, heroin, fentanyl: humankind has been in thrall to the ‘Milk of Paradise’ for millennia. The latex of papaver somniferum is a bringer of sleep, of pleasurable lethargy, of relief from pain - and hugely addictive....

    Prix courant: 25,95$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Incendiary Rise of Juul
    • Auteur(s): Jamie Ducharme
    • Narrateur(s): Sean Patrick Hopkins
    • Durée: 10 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-05-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • A propulsive, eye-opening work of reporting, chronicling the rise of Juul and the birth of a new addiction....

    Prix courant: 26,21$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Race to Stop an Epidemic
    • Auteur(s): Matt McCarthy
    • Narrateur(s): Matt McCarthy
    • Durée: 7 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-05-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 évaluations
    • A New York Times best-selling author shares this exhilarating story of cutting-edge science and the race against the clock to find new treatments in the fight against the antibiotic-resistant bacteria known as superbugs....

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    • The Startling History of Life Before and After Vaccines
    • Auteur(s): Stacy Mintzer Herlihy
    • Narrateur(s): Robin Siegerman
    • Durée: 9 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-11-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In Herding Immunity, Stacy Mintzer Herlihy explores the compelling history of vaccines and the equally long history of vaccination opposition.

    Prix courant: 17,53$ ou 1 crédit

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