Health Care History

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    • What It Is and What It Isn't
    • Auteur(s): Florence Nightingale
    • Narrateur(s): Elisabeth Rodgers
    • Durée: 4 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-09-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • These outspoken writings by the founder of modern nursing record fundamentals in the needs of the sick that must be provided in all nursing....

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    • The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines
    • Auteur(s): Donald R. Kirsch PhD, Ogi Ogas PhD
    • Narrateur(s): James Foster
    • Durée: 7 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-01-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 évaluations
    • The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race....

    Prix courant: 17,81$ 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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    • Auteur(s): Rebecca Skloot
    • Narrateur(s): Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
    • Durée: 12 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-02-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 208 évaluations
    • Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Microbes Shaped Our History
    • Auteur(s): Dorothy H. Crawford
    • Narrateur(s): Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Durée: 7 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-04-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Ever since we started huddling together in communities, the story of human history has been inextricably entwined with the story of microbes. They have evolved and spread amongst us, shaping our culture through infection, disease, and pandemic....

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    • A Biography of Cancer
    • Auteur(s): Siddhartha Mukherjee
    • Narrateur(s): Fred Sanders
    • Durée: 22 h et 18 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-12-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 170 évaluations
    • The Emperor of All Maladies reveals the many faces of an iconic, shape-shifting disease that is the defining plague of our generation....

    Prix courant: 33,98$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Thomas S. Kuhn
    • Narrateur(s): Dennis Holland
    • Durée: 10 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-01-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 évaluations
    • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is essential listening for understanding the history, philosophy, and evolution of science....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • An Insiders' Account of the Shocking Medical Experiment Conducted by Government Doctors Against African American Men
    • Auteur(s): Fred D. Gray
    • Narrateur(s): David Sadzin
    • Durée: 5 h et 6 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-01-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • In 1932, the US Public Health Service recruited 623 African American men from Macon County, Alabama, for a study of "the effects of untreated syphilis in the Negro male". For the next 40 years, these men were denied medical care for this potentially fatal disease....

    Prix courant: 21,92$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Influenza of 1918
    • Auteur(s): Alfred W. Crosby
    • Narrateur(s): Rick Adamson
    • Durée: 11 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-03-16
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Between August 1918 and March 1919, the Spanish influenza spread worldwide, claiming over 25 million lives. In this vivid narrative, Alfred W. Crosby recounts the course of the pandemic during the panic-stricken months of 1918 and 1919....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A History of Modern Medicine: From the Renaissance to the Implant Revolution
    • Auteur(s): David Schneider MD
    • Narrateur(s): Peter Noble
    • Durée: 23 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-03-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • Written by an author with plenty of experience holding a scalpel, Dr. David Schneider's in-depth biography is an encompassing history of the practice that has leapt forward over the centuries from the dangerous guesswork of ancient Greek physicians....

    Prix courant: 60,60$ ou 1 crédit

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    • An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
    • Auteur(s): Siddhartha Mukherjee
    • Narrateur(s): Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Durée: 16 h et 3 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-10-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 30 évaluations
    • From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene, a #1 New York Times bestseller, comes his most spectacular book yet, an exploration of medicine and our radical new ability to manipulate cells....

    Prix courant: 29,13$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • Auteur(s): William Bynum
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Cowley
    • Durée: 5 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-02-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, this Very Short Introduction surveys the history of medicine from classical times to the present....

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    • Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul
    • Auteur(s): Eleanor Herman
    • Narrateur(s): Susie Berneis
    • Durée: 10 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-08-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 évaluations
    • Author Eleanor Herman combines her unique access to royal archives with cutting-edge forensic discoveries to tell the true story of Europe’s glittering palaces: one of medical bafflement, poisonous cosmetics, ever-present excrement, festering natural illness, and, sometimes, murder....

    Prix courant: 40,32$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work
    • Auteur(s): Steven Kotler, Jamie Wheal
    • Narrateur(s): Fred Sanders
    • Durée: 8 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-02-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 348 évaluations
    • The authors of the best-selling Bold and The Rise of Superman explore altered states of consciousness and how they can ignite passion, fuel creativity, and accelerate problem solving....

    Prix courant: 27,96$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    • Auteur(s): Mary Roach
    • Narrateur(s): Shelly Frasier
    • Durée: 8 h
    • Date de publication: 2004-02-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 114 évaluations
    • An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem....

    Prix courant: 18,92$ ou 1 crédit

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    • An Intimate History
    • Auteur(s): Siddhartha Mukherjee
    • Narrateur(s): Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Durée: 19 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-05-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 131 évaluations
    • Mukherjee animates the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices....

    Prix courant: 33,98$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): P. T. Barnum
    • Narrateur(s): Rick Adamson
    • Durée: 11 h et 19 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-05-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Here is P. T. Barnum's insightful review of humbugs, scams, deceits (and self-deceits) in culture, economics, entertainment, religion, medicine, and more....

    Prix courant: 30,37$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Tales from Neurosurgery
    • Auteur(s): Frank T Vertosick Jr. MD
    • Narrateur(s): Kirby Heyborne
    • Durée: 8 h et 42 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-09-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 105 évaluations
    • With poignant insight and humor, Frank Vertosick, Jr., MD, describes some of the greatest challenges of his career, including a six-week-old infant with a tumor in her brain and more....

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    • A History of Race & Disease
    • Auteur(s): Arleen Marcia Tuchman
    • Narrateur(s): Kirsten Potter
    • Durée: 8 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-08-05
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Who is considered most at risk for diabetes, and why? In this thorough, engaging book, historian Arleen Tuchman examines and critiques how these questions have been answered by both the public and medical communities for over a century in the United States....

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    • Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age
    • Auteur(s): James L. Nolan Jr.
    • Narrateur(s): Adam Lofbomm
    • Durée: 9 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-10-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • After his father died, James L. Nolan, Jr., took possession of a box of private family materials. To his surprise, the small secret archive contained a treasure trove of information about his grandfather's role as a doctor in the Manhattan Project....

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