Health Care History

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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....

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    • The Misfits, Mavericks, and Rebels Who Created the Greatest Medical Breakthrough of Our Lives
    • Auteur(s): James Forrester MD
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Yen
    • Durée: 15 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-09-29
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • At one time heart disease was a death sentence. By the middle of the 20th century, it was killing millions, and, as with the Black Death centuries before, physicians stood helpless....

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    • A Short History of Drugs and War
    • Auteur(s): Lukasz Kamienski
    • Narrateur(s): Ricco Fajardo
    • Durée: 13 h et 51 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-04-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Shooting Up: A Short History of Drugs and War examines how intoxicants have been put to the service of states, empires, and their armies throughout history....

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    • America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him and the Age of Flimflam
    • Auteur(s): Pope Brock
    • Narrateur(s): Johnny Heller
    • Durée: 8 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2008-02-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • This is the enormously entertaining story of how a fraudulent surgeon made a fortune by inserting goats' testes into impotent American men....

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    • Modern Library Chronicles
    • Auteur(s): Frank Gonzalez-Crussi
    • Narrateur(s): John McDonough
    • Durée: 9 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2008-02-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Praised for his erudite writing, renowned scientist Frank Gonzalez-Crussi penned this concise history of medicine....

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    • The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox
    • Auteur(s): Jonathan B. Tucker
    • Narrateur(s): Patrick Cullen
    • Durée: 9 h et 38 min
    • Date de publication: 2004-05-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Smallpox, the only infectious disease to have been eradicated, was one of the most terrifying of human scourges....

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    • From Mauthausen to Cairo, the Relentless Pursuit of SS Doctor Aribert Heim
    • Auteur(s): Nicholas Kulish, Souad Mekhennet
    • Narrateur(s): Paul Boehmer
    • Durée: 9 h et 50 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-03-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Dr. Aribert Heim worked at the Mauthausen concentration camp for only a few months in 1941 but left a devastating mark....

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    • The Fight Against Alzheimer's
    • Auteur(s): Joseph Jebelli
    • Narrateur(s): Thomas Judd
    • Durée: 7 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-10-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • A riveting, gorgeously written biography of one of history's most fascinating and confounding diseases - Alzheimer's....

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    • The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain's Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I
    • Auteur(s): Wendy Moore
    • Narrateur(s): Suzanne Toren
    • Durée: 12 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-04-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • The "absorbing and powerful" (Wall Street Journal) story of two pioneering suffragette doctors who shattered social expectations and transformed modern medicine during World War I....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • Auteur(s): Anthony Storr
    • Narrateur(s): Neville Jason
    • Durée: 3 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2004-12-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • Sigmund Freud revolutionized the way in which we think about ourselves....

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    • History of Man Series, Book 5
    • Auteur(s): John Bershof
    • Narrateur(s): John Fox Bershof
    • Série: History of Man Series
    • Durée: 18 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-10-04
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The Fifth History of Man has a few parting shots at viruses but mostly continues with the world of parasites, from tick disease that tick us off, Old Lyme, Connecticut and Lyme disease, toxoplasmosis, Crazy Cat Lady and her clowder of cats, then on into a discussion of the avatar of parasites....

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    • Auteur(s): Mimi Swartz
    • Narrateur(s): Lydia Mackay
    • Durée: 9 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-08-07
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • It wasn’t supposed to be this hard. If America could send a man to the moon, shouldn’t the best surgeons in the world be able to build an artificial heart? In Ticker, Mimi Swartz shows just how complex and difficult it can be to replicate one of nature’s greatest creations....

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    • Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19
    • Auteur(s): John Fabian Witt
    • Narrateur(s): Mike Chamberlain
    • Durée: 2 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-02-16
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • From yellow fever to smallpox to polio to AIDS to COVID-19, epidemics have prompted Americans to make choices and answer questions about their basic values and their laws....

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    • The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease
    • Auteur(s): Charles Kenny
    • Narrateur(s): Jacques Roy
    • Durée: 7 h et 5 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-01-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • For 4,000 years, the size and vitality of cities, economies, and empires were heavily determined by infection. Striking humanity in waves, the cycle of plagues set the tempo of civilizational growth and decline, since common response to the threat was exclusion....

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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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    • 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
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    • 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....

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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....

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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....

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    • The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery
    • Auteur(s): Paul Craddock
    • Narrateur(s): Paul Craddock
    • Durée: 9 h et 54 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-05-10
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Paul Craddock's Spare Parts offers an original look at the history of medicine itself through the rich, compelling, and delightfully macabre story of transplant surgery from ancient times to the present day....

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    • How Tuberculosis Shaped History
    • Auteur(s): Vidya Krishnan
    • Narrateur(s): Sneha Mathan
    • Durée: 8 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-02-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • The definitive social history of tuberculosis, from its origins as a haunting mystery to its modern reemergence that now threatens populations around the world....

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