Health Care History

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    • Life and Death Inside America’s Premier Mental Hospital
    • Auteur(s): Alex Beam
    • Narrateur(s): Matthew Josdal
    • Durée: 9 h et 57 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-02-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Gracefully Insane, by Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam, is a fascinating and emotional biography of McLean Hospital from its founding in 1817 through today....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • Safety, Efficacy, and the Public's Trust
    • Auteur(s): Mikkael A. Sekeres
    • Narrateur(s): Mike Lenz
    • Durée: 8 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-04-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Mikkael Sekeres—a leading oncologist and former chair of the FDA's cancer drug advisory committee—tells the story of how the FDA became the most trusted regulatory agency in the world....

    Prix courant: 27,83 $ ou 1 crédit

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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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    • 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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    • Sex, Reproduction & Succession
    • Auteur(s): Sylvia Barbara Soberton
    • Narrateur(s): Christine Rendel
    • Durée: 10 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-06-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • This book concentrates on the medical downfall of the Tudors, examining their gynecological history and medical records....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $ 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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    • Sex, Hysteria, and the Riddle of Mental Illness
    • Auteur(s): Allan H. Ropper, Brian Burrell
    • Narrateur(s): Fred Sanders
    • Durée: 8 h et 57 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-08-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • A noted neurologist challenges the widespread misunderstanding of brain disease and mental illness....

    Prix courant: 23,31 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • Patient Safety and the Middle-Managing of American Medicine
    • Auteur(s): Robert L. Wears, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe
    • Narrateur(s): Mike Lenz
    • Durée: 7 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-06-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Still Not Safe is the story of the rise of the patient - safety movement - and how an "epidemic" of medical errors was derived from a reality that didn't support such a characterization....

    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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    • Inside Pfizer's Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible
    • Auteur(s): Dr. Albert Bourla
    • Narrateur(s): Stephen Graybill
    • Durée: 6 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-03-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • A riveting, fast-paced, inside look at one of the most incredible private sector achievements in history, Moonshot recounts the intensive nine months in 2020 when the scientists at Pfizer, under the visionary leadership of Dr. Albert Bourla, made “the impossible possible”....

    Prix courant: 25,63 $ 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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    • 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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    • Eyewitness Accounts from the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History
    • Auteur(s): Catharine Arnold
    • Narrateur(s): Peter Wickham
    • Durée: 9 h et 23 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-06-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Before AIDS or coronavirus, there was the Spanish flu - Catharine Arnold's gripping narrative, Pandemic 1918, marks the 100th anniversary of an epidemic that altered world history....

    Prix courant: 26,99 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • Building a Life of Joy and Dignity from Beginning to End
    • Auteur(s): Tia Powell
    • Narrateur(s): Kimberly Farr, Tia Powell
    • Durée: 11 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-04-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • The cultural and medical history of dementia and Alzheimer's disease by a leading psychiatrist and bioethicist who urges us to turn our focus from cure to care....

    Prix courant: 23,31 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling
    • Auteur(s): Ron Franscell
    • Narrateur(s): Patty Nieman, Chris Berger
    • Durée: 8 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-03-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • ShadowMan is the pulse-pounding account of the first time in history that the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit created a psychological profile to catch a serial killer....

    Prix courant: 23,31 $ 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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    • The Science and History Behind Every Question You’ve Wanted to Ask
    • Auteur(s): David Miles
    • Narrateur(s): Mark Meadows
    • Durée: 13 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-03-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Vaccines are a debate, whether we want them to be or not. With a clear-eyed approach to their science and history, How Vaccines Work demystifies the strange and intricate world of vaccines....

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    • A Short History of Living Longer
    • Auteur(s): Steven Johnson
    • Narrateur(s): Steven Johnson
    • Durée: 8 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-05-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • In 1920, at the end of the last major pandemic, global life expectancy was just over 40 years. Today, in many parts of the world, human beings can expect to live more than 80 years. As a species, we have doubled our life expectancy in just one century....

    Prix courant: 23,31 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine
    • Auteur(s): Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
    • Narrateur(s): Jamie Renell
    • Durée: 10 h et 38 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-04-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • A bizarre, rollicking trip through the world of fringe medicine, filled with leeches, baking soda IVs, and, according to at least one person, zombies: Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling examines the growing universe of non-traditional treatments....

    Prix courant: 28,27 $ ou 1 crédit

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