Health Care History

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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....

    Prix courant: 33,53$ 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

    • A Life
    • Auteur(s): Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs
    • Narrateur(s): Pam Ward
    • Durée: 20 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-10-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • The authoritative account of one of the 20th century's most important - and controversial - scientists....

    Prix courant: 30,25$ ou 1 crédit

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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....

    Prix courant: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A History
    • Auteur(s): Sandeep Jauhar
    • Narrateur(s): Patrick Lawlor
    • Durée: 8 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-09-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • Cardiologist and best-selling author Sandeep Jauhar tells the colorful and little known story of the doctors who risked their careers and the patients who risked their lives to know and heal our most vital organ....

    Prix courant: 38,08$ ou 1 crédit

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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.

    Prix courant: 32,62$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Doctor, a Donor, and the Incredible Breakthrough that Saved Millions of Babies
    • Auteur(s): Julian Guthrie
    • Narrateur(s): Ann Richardson
    • Durée: 8 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-09-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In Good Blood, best-selling writer Julian Guthrie tells the gripping tale of the race to cure a horrible affliction known as Rh disease that stalked families and caused a mother’s immune system to attack her own unborn child....

    Prix courant: 19,86$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Journey of a Pioneer Heart Surgeon
    • Auteur(s): Stuart Jamieson
    • Narrateur(s): Steven Crossley Crossley
    • Durée: 10 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-03-12
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • An adventurous, riveting account, and ever-attentive to the patients for whom he was the best chance, Close to the Sun is Stuart Jamieson's story of four decades of advances in heart surgery....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The International Struggle over Antibiotics
    • Auteur(s): Marc Landas
    • Narrateur(s): Steven Jay Cohen
    • Durée: 13 h et 51 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-01-19
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In June 1941, British scientists boarded a plane for America, carrying a precious commodity - penicillin - and the knowledge that it would change history. Author Marc Landas uncovers the dark history behind the discovery, production, and distribution of penicillin and other antibiotics....

    Prix courant: 21,92$ ou 1 crédit

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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....

    Prix courant: 12,24$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Mark Jackson
    • Narrateur(s): Tom Alexander
    • Durée: 7 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-03-01
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Acclaimed historian Mark Jackson takes a fresh global view of mankind’s great battle to stave off death and disease, exploring both Western and Eastern traditions....

    Prix courant: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Ken Burns, David Blistein
    • Narrateur(s): Graham Winton
    • Durée: 1 h et 54 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-11-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The Mayo Clinic: Faith, Hope, Science chronicles the history of this unique organization, from its roots as an unlikely partnership between a country doctor and a Franciscan order of nuns to its position today as a worldwide model for patient care, research, and education....

    Prix courant: 10,01$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Our Greatest Triumphs in the Race to Cure Humanity's Deadliest Diseases
    • Auteur(s): Andrew Lam
    • Narrateur(s): Jason Vu
    • Durée: 10 h et 42 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-06-13
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Dr. Andrew Lam, an award-winning author and retinal surgeon, distills the long arc of medical progress down to the crucial moments that were responsible for the world's greatest medical miracles....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Jonathan Letterman, the Civil War Doctor Who Pioneered Battlefield Care
    • Auteur(s): Scott McGaugh
    • Narrateur(s): Kyle Munley
    • Durée: 11 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-07-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The first full-length biography of the Civil War surgeon who, over the course of the war’s bloodiest battles - from Antietam to Gettysburg - redefined military medicine....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ 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
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    • 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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    • Auteur(s): Allan V. Horwitz
    • Narrateur(s): Kyle Tait
    • Durée: 7 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-01-03
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Post-traumatic stress disorder was recognized as a psychiatric disorder in the latter part of the 19th century. In PTSD, Allan V. Horwitz traces the fluctuations in definitions of and responses to traumatic psychic conditions....

    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
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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....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge
    • Auteur(s): Benjamin Y. Fong
    • Narrateur(s): Stephen Caffrey
    • Durée: 8 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-03-19
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Quick Fixes is a look at American society through the lens of its pharmacological crutches. Though particularly acute in recent decades, the contradiction between America's passionate love and intense hatred for drugs has been one of its defining characteristics for over a century.

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 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$ 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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