Health Care History

Liste de produits
    • The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South
    • Auteur(s): Chip Jones
    • Narrateur(s): JD Jackson
    • Durée: 12 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-08-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this “startling...powerful” (Kirkus Reviews) investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race....

    Prix courant: 27,66 $

    • The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics
    • Auteur(s): Stephen Coss
    • Narrateur(s): Bob Souer
    • Durée: 9 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-03-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • During the worst smallpox epidemic in Boston history, Puritan Cotton Mather convinced Doctor Zabdiel Boylston to try a procedure that he believed would prevent death....

    Prix courant: 20,04 $

    • A Cultural and Scientific Journey
    • Auteur(s): Vincent M. Figueredo
    • Narrateur(s): Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Durée: 5 h et 23 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-02-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • For much of recorded history, people considered the heart to be the most important organ in the body. In cultures around the world, the heart—not the brain—was believed to be the location of intelligence, memory, emotion, and the soul....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • How Societies Recover from Pandemics
    • Auteur(s): Brian Michael Jenkins
    • Narrateur(s): Will Tulin
    • Durée: 6 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-09-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The legacy of epidemics, Brian Michael Jenkins observes, is not only one of lives lost but of devastated economies and social disorder, all of which have severe political repercussions. Jenkins's sobering analysis is riveting and thought-provoking....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • 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
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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 $

    • The Life of Michael E. DeBakey
    • Auteur(s): Craig A. Miller
    • Narrateur(s): Eric Jason Martin
    • Durée: 25 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-08-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • He has been called the greatest surgeon of the 20th century. The son of Lebanese immigrants, Michael DeBakey rose from humble beginnings in a backwater Louisiana town to dominate the landscape of modern medicine....

    Prix courant: 38,97 $

    • The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It
    • Auteur(s): Gina Kolata
    • Narrateur(s): Gina Kolata
    • Durée: 6 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2001-02-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • Feeling feverish, tired, or achy? Listening to Gina Kolata's engrossing account of the 1918 Influenza epidemic is sure to give you the chills...

    Prix courant: 14,57 $

    • Exploring the History, Science, and Future of Cardiac Disease
    • Auteur(s): Haider Warraich
    • Narrateur(s): Neil Shah
    • Durée: 11 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-07-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In State of the Heart, the journey to rid the world of heart disease is shown to be reflective of the journey of medical science at large. We are learning not only that women have as much heart disease as men, but that the type of heart disease women experience is...different....

    Prix courant: 32,00 $

    • The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims
    • Auteur(s): Jennifer Vanderbes
    • Narrateur(s): Jennifer Vanderbes
    • Durée: 10 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-06-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • A riveting account of the most notorious drug of the twentieth century and the never-before-told story of its American survivors....

    Prix courant: 26,22 $

    • 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 $

    • Breed Behavioral Characteristics, History, Training, Nutrition, and Health Care for Your New Ridgeback Dog
    • Auteur(s): Tarah Schwartz
    • Narrateur(s): Larry Oblander
    • Durée: 4 h et 33 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-05-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Whether you’ve just brought home your first Rhodesian Ridgeback or are an experienced owner, this audiobook will help you learn the necessary skills to be the best pet parent possible....

    Prix courant: 18,74 $

    • 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 $

    • A Chilling Descent into the Macabre, Controversial, Lifesaving History of Hypothermia
    • Auteur(s): Phil Jaekl
    • Narrateur(s): Matt Kugler
    • Durée: 8 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-06-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In Out Cold, science writer Phil Jaekl chronicles the underappreciated story of human innovation with cold, from Ancient Egypt, where it was used to treat skin irritations, to 18th-century London, where scientists used it in their first explorations of suspended animation....

    Prix courant: 25,24 $

    • A Cultural History of Hypochondria
    • Auteur(s): Caroline Crampton
    • Narrateur(s): Caroline Crampton
    • Durée: 9 h et 23 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-04-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Caroline Crampton’s life was upended at the age of seventeen, when she was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a relatively rare blood cancer. After years of invasive treatment, she was finally given the all clear. But being cured of the cancer didn’t mean she felt well.

    Prix courant: 32,62 $

    • The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry
    • Auteur(s): Paul Starr
    • Narrateur(s): Sean Runnette
    • Durée: 24 h et 5 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-07-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Considered the definitive history of the American healthcare system, The Social Transformation of American Medicine examines how the roles of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs have evolved over the last two and a half centuries....

    Prix courant: 33,40 $

    • Auteur(s): Steve Parker
    • Narrateur(s): Laurel Lefkow
    • Durée: 12 h et 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-04-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Immerse yourself in the history of medicine - a colorful story of skill, serendipity, trial and error, moments of genius, and dogged determination....

    Prix courant: 26,22 $

    • True Tales of Science, Surgery, and Mystery
    • Auteur(s): Rob Dunn
    • Narrateur(s): Robert Fass
    • Durée: 12 h et 6 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-02-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Thought of as the seat of our soul, then as a mysteriously animated object, the heart is still more a mystery than it is understood....

    Prix courant: 32,31 $

    • The True Story of the Maverick Who Pioneered Open Heart Surgery
    • Auteur(s): G. Wayne Miller
    • Narrateur(s): Patrick Cullen
    • Durée: 7 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2003-04-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • G. Wayne Miller has dramatically and meticulously reconstructed an amazing true story...

    Prix courant: 14,87 $

    • 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 $

    • Auteur(s): Paul De Kruif
    • Narrateur(s): Gabriela Ramirez
    • Durée: 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-07-21
    • Langue: Espagnol
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Esta obra habla de varios investigadores o cazadores de microbios nocivos, causantes estos de terribles enfermedades como la rabia, la tuberculosis, la difteria, la sífilis y el paludismo, entre otras....

    Prix courant: 8,71 $