Health Care History

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    • The Black Death and the World It Made
    • Auteur(s): Norman F. Cantor
    • Narrateur(s): Bill Wallace
    • Durée: 6 h et 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2003-09-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • Much of what we know about the greatest medical disaster ever, the Black Plague of the fourteenth century, is wrong.

    Prix courant: 25,00 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World
    • Auteur(s): Sarah DiGregorio
    • Narrateur(s): Ann Marie Gideon
    • Durée: 8 h et 23 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-05-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In this sweeping cultural history of nursing from the Stone Age to the present, the critically acclaimed author of Early pays homage to the profession and makes an urgent call for change....

    Prix courant: 32,62 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • The History of Surgery
    • Auteur(s): Ira Rutkow MD
    • Narrateur(s): Gibson Frazier
    • Durée: 15 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-03-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • From a renowned surgeon and historian with five decades of experience comes a remarkable history of surgery’s development—spanning the Stone Age to the present day—blending meticulous medical studies with lively and skillful storytelling....

    Prix courant: 24,99 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
    • Auteur(s): David K. Randall
    • Narrateur(s): Charles Constant
    • Durée: 7 h et 50 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-05-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • A spine-chilling saga of virulent racism, human folly, and the ultimate triumph of scientific progress....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $ ou 1 crédit

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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
    • 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 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Elizabeth Brown Pryor
    • Narrateur(s): Sheri Leigh Horn
    • Durée: 19 h et 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-04-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Widely known today as the "Angel of the Battlefield", Clara Barton's personal life has always been shrouded in mystery. In Clara Barton, Professional Angel, Elizabeth Brown Pryor presents a biography of Barton that strips away the heroic exterior....

    Prix courant: 31,26 $ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 31,26 $ ou 1 crédit

    • 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
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Almost daily, headlines announce newly discovered links between cancers and their genetic causes. Science journalist Jessica Wapner vividly relates the backstory behind those headlines....

    Prix courant: 27,25 $ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,25 $ ou 1 crédit

    • Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum
    • Auteur(s): Mab Segrest
    • Narrateur(s): Hillary Huber, Mab Segrest
    • Durée: 15 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-04-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In December 1841, the Georgia State Lunatic, Idiot, and Epileptic Asylum was founded. A hundred years later, it had become the largest insane asylum in the world with over 10,000 patients. Administrations of Lunacy tells the story of this iconic and infamous southern institution....

    Prix courant: 19,90 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Cultural History of DMT
    • Auteur(s): Graham St John, Dennis McKenna - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): David de Vries
    • Durée: 17 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-12-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Since the mid-1950s, the psychoactive compound DMT has attracted the attention of experimentalists, prohibitionists, scientists, artists, alchemists, and hyperspace emissaries....

    Prix courant: 27,83 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies
    • Auteur(s): Dawn Raffel
    • Narrateur(s): Erin Bennett
    • Durée: 6 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-07-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • This is the spellbinding tale of a mysterious doctor who revolutionized neonatal care more than 100 years ago and saved some 7,000 babies....

    Prix courant: 20,40 $ 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

    Prix réduit: 20,40 $ ou 1 crédit

    • How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
    • Auteur(s): Janice P. Nimura
    • Narrateur(s): Laural Merlington
    • Durée: 11 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-01-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope of "ordinary" womanhood....

    Prix courant: 27,83 $ ou 1 crédit

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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....

    Prix courant: 20,04 $ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 20,04 $ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): DK
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Oliver
    • Durée: 16 h et 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-03-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • This audiobook explores big questions like these, explaining the breakthroughs and discoveries that have shaped our modern-day understanding of medicine and helped us protect and promote our health....

    Prix courant: 29,14 $ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 29,14 $ ou 1 crédit

    • On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for ""Enough""
    • Auteur(s): Emma Specter
    • Narrateur(s): Erin deWard
    • Durée: 6 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-07-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • An unflinching and deeply reported look at the realities of binge-eating disorder from a rising culture commentator and writer for Vogue.

    Prix courant: 32,62 $ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 32,62 $ ou 1 crédit

    • 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: 14,87 $ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 14,87 $ ou 1 crédit

    • Don Thomas, Marrow Transplantation, and the Cell Therapy Revolution
    • Auteur(s): Dr. Fred Appelbaum
    • Narrateur(s): Nathan Agin
    • Durée: 11 h et 50 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-08-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Dr. Frederick R. Appelbaum tells a sweeping biography of the visionary behind bone marrow transplantation and the story of the diseases cured by Don Thomas's discovery....

    Prix courant: 24,70 $ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 24,70 $ ou 1 crédit

    • 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 4 évaluations
    • Sigmund Freud revolutionized the way in which we think about ourselves....

    Prix courant: 15,15 $ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 15,15 $ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Mimi Swartz
    • Narrateur(s): Lydia Mackay
    • Durée: 9 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-08-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 23,31 $ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 23,31 $ ou 1 crédit

    • Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
    • Auteur(s): Neil Bradbury Ph.D.
    • Narrateur(s): Derek Perkins
    • Durée: 7 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-02-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 évaluations
    • Drawn from historical records and current news headlines, A Taste for Poison weaves together the tales of spurned lovers, shady scientists, medical professionals, and political assassins to show how the precise systems of the body can be impaired to lethal effect....

    Prix courant: 19,99 $ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 19,99 $ ou 1 crédit