Health Care History

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    • A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
    • Auteur(s): Lindsey Fitzharris
    • Narrateur(s): Daniel Gillies
    • Durée: 8 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-06-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true story of a visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War’s injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgery.

    Prix courant: 19,42$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Mass Psychogenic Illness and the Real Story Behind the Embassy Mystery and Hysteria
    • Auteur(s): Robert E. Bartholomew, Robert W. Baloh
    • Narrateur(s): George Newbern
    • Durée: 9 h et 3 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-09-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A scientific detective story and a case study in the social construction of mass psychogenic illness....

    Prix courant: 20,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio
    • Auteur(s): Jeffrey Kluger
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Prichard
    • Durée: 13 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2006-02-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Salk became a cultural hero and icon for a whole generation....

    Prix courant: 24,49$ ou 1 crédit

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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....

    Prix courant: 19,99$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
    • Auteur(s): Adam Rutherford
    • Narrateur(s): Greg Patmore
    • Durée: 7 h et 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-03-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Control is a book about what geneticist Adam Rutherford calls “a defining idea of the twentieth century.” Inspired by Darwin’s ideas about evolution, eugenics arose in Victorian England as a theory for improving the British population, and quickly spread to America....

    Prix courant: 17,66$ ou 1 crédit

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    • What's Behind the Hidden Costs of Healthcare in America
    • Auteur(s): Marnie Hall, Hal Rosenbluth
    • Narrateur(s): Stephen Graybill, Erin Bennett
    • Durée: 5 h et 17 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-06-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Hal Rosenbluth shares a brutally honest but humorous account of the journey through the labyrinth of health care, including an eye-opening exploration of the skyrocketing costs—both personal and systemic—inflicted by hypochondria and the cost to the nation’s health-care system.

    Prix courant: 17,52$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Steven Johnson
    • Narrateur(s): Alan Sklar
    • Durée: 8 h et 38 min
    • Date de publication: 2006-12-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 évaluations
    • This is a thrilling historical account of the worst cholera outbreak in Victorian London and a brilliant exploration of how Dr. John Snow's solution revolutionized the way we think about disease....

    Prix courant: 20,04$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Scientist's Warning
    • Auteur(s): Peter J. Hotez MD PhD
    • Narrateur(s): Graham Winton
    • Durée: 6 h et 6 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-10-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • In this eyewitness story of how the anti-vaccine movement grew into a dangerous and prominent anti-science element in American politics, Dr. Peter J. Hotez describes the devastating impacts it has had on Americans’ health and lives....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A People's History of Monopoly Medicine from Aspirin to COVID-19 Vaccines
    • Auteur(s): Alexander Zaitchik
    • Narrateur(s): Johnny Heller
    • Durée: 9 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-03-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Owning the Sun tells the story of one of the most contentious fights in human history: the legal right to control the production of lifesaving medicines....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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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....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 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
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    • More, Please is a chronicle of a lifelong fixation with food, as well as an examination of the ways in which compulsory thinness, diet culture, and the seductive promise of “wellness” have resulted in warping countless Americans’ relationship with healthy eating.

    Prix courant: 32,62$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System
    • Auteur(s): Steven Brill
    • Narrateur(s): Dan Woren
    • Durée: 17 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-01-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • America’s Bitter Pill is Steven Brill’s acclaimed book on how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was written, how it is being implemented, and, most important, how it is changing—and failing to change—the rampant abuses in the healthcare industry....

    Prix courant: 29,14$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe
    • Auteur(s): William Rosen
    • Narrateur(s): Barrett Whitener
    • Durée: 11 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2007-05-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • The emperor Justinian reunified Rome's fractured empire by defeating the Goths and Vandals. Then, in the summer of 542, he encountered a flea....

    Prix courant: 22,82$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Rabies, Medicine, and Society in an American Metropolis, 1840-1920
    • Auteur(s): Jessica Wang
    • Narrateur(s): Xe Sands
    • Durée: 9 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-10-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Rabies enjoys a fearsome and lurid reputation. In Mad Dogs and Other New Yorkers, Jessica Wang examines the history of this rare but dreaded affliction during a time of rapid urbanization....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • One Man's Fight to End the Global HIV Epidemic
    • Auteur(s): Seema Yasmin, Mabel van Oranje - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Seema Yasmin
    • Durée: 7 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-06-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Dr. Lange graduated from medical school in 1981, right as a new plague swept across the globe. His story became intertwined with the story of HIV. At once a physician, scientist, AIDS activist, and medical diplomat, Lange studied ways to battle HIV and prevent its spread....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Short History of Living Longer
    • Auteur(s): Steven Johnson
    • Narrateur(s): Steven Johnson
    • Durée: 8 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-05-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • In 1920, at the end of the last major pandemic, global life expectancy was just over 40 years. Today, in many parts of the world, human beings can expect to live more than 80 years. As a species, we have doubled our life expectancy in just one century....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 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
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    • 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$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
    • Auteur(s): Kevin Hazzard
    • Narrateur(s): Gilbert Glenn Brown
    • Durée: 9 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-09-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the world....

    Prix courant: 28,27$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Florence Nightingale
    • Narrateur(s): Nadia May
    • Durée: 3 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-09-01
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Notes on Nursing is a classic by Florence Nightingale (the first modern nurse). Florence Nightingale's methods were revolutionary in her time....

    Prix courant: 12,23$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Gail Lynn
    • Narrateur(s): Gail Lynn, Christi Bowen, Adam Lofbomm
    • Durée: 7 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-01-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Part memoir, part illuminating treatise on why science is looking to the past for the future of medicine, Unlocking the Ancient Secrets to Healing chronicles the personal tribulations and professional discoveries behind the remarkable realization of Gail Lynn’s dream.

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

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