Health Care History

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    • A Mutant Gene and the Quest to Cure Cancer at the Genetic Level
    • Auteur(s): Jessica Wapner
    • Narrateur(s): Heather Henderson
    • Durée: 9 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-05-14
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Almost daily, headlines announce newly discovered links between cancers and their genetic causes. Science journalist Jessica Wapner vividly relates the backstory behind those headlines....

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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 Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
    • Auteur(s): Luke Dittrich
    • Narrateur(s): George Newbern
    • Durée: 14 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-08-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • In 1953, a 27-year-old factory worker named Henry Molaison - who suffered from severe epilepsy - received a radical new version of the then-common lobotomy, targeting the most mysterious structures in the brain....

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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....

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    • The Harrowing Journey of a Cruise Ship at the Dawn of a Pandemic
    • Auteur(s): Michael Smith, Jonathan Franklin
    • Narrateur(s): George Newbern
    • Durée: 8 h et 17 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-06-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • In early 2020, the world was on edge. An ominous virus was spreading on different continents, and no one knew what the coming weeks would bring. Far from the hot spots, the cruise ship Zaandam, owned by Holland America, was preparing to sail from Buenos Aires, Argentina....

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    • A History of Psychiatry's Bible
    • Auteur(s): Allan V. Horowitz
    • Narrateur(s): Rich Miller
    • Durée: 8 h et 18 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-12-31
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Over the past 70 years, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, has evolved from a virtually unknown and little-used pamphlet to an imposing and comprehensive compendium of mental disorder....

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    • How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It
    • Auteur(s): Jason Karlawish
    • Narrateur(s): Jason Karlawish, Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Durée: 13 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-02-23
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Rich in science, history, and characters, The Problem of Alzheimer's takes us inside laboratories, patients' homes, caregivers’ support groups, progressive care communities, and Jason Karlawish's own practice at the Penn Memory Center....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ 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....

    Prix courant: 20,40$ 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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    • Mystery, Medicine, and Alchemy in Renaissance Italy
    • Auteur(s): William Eamon
    • Narrateur(s): Victor Bevine
    • Durée: 11 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-12-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Written by Pulitzer-prize nominated historian William Eamon, The Professor of Secrets entices readers into a dangerous scientific underworld of sorcerers and surgeons....

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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....

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    • Hate and Compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS
    • Auteur(s): Samuel Kline Cohn Jr.
    • Narrateur(s): David Colacci
    • Durée: 29 h et 38 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-10-16
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Epidemics challenges a dominant hypothesis in the study of epidemics, that invariably across time and space, epidemics provoked hatred, blaming of the "other", and victimizing bearers of epidemic diseases....

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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....

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    • The Way to Healing
    • Auteur(s): Victoria Sweet
    • Narrateur(s): Victoria Sweet
    • Durée: 9 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-10-17
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The award-winning author of God's Hotel offers a radical reimagining of how we practice medicine....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ 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: 26,21$ 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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    • 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
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    • 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....

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    • 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.

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