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    • 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: 19,42$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 19,42$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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

    Prix réduit: 30,25$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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

    Prix réduit: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
    • Auteur(s): Deborah Blum
    • Narrateur(s): Coleen Marlo
    • Durée: 9 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-02-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 évaluations
    • Deborah Blum, writing with the high style and skill for suspense that is characteristic of the very best mystery fiction, shares the untold story of how poison rocked Jazz Age New York City....

    Prix courant: 20,04$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 20,04$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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

    Prix réduit: 17,66$ ou 1 crédit

    • An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
    • Auteur(s): John Kelly
    • Narrateur(s): Matthew Lloyd Davies
    • Durée: 12 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-02-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The Great Plague is one of the most compelling events in human history—even more so now, when the notion of plague has never loomed larger as a contemporary public concern....

    Prix courant: 37,28$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 37,28$ ou 1 crédit

    • Adventures in the Art and Science of Fasting
    • Auteur(s): Steve Hendricks
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Durée: 17 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-09-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • A journalist takes listeners into the science and history of intermittent fasting, an ancient practice in the middle of a red-hot resurgence, exploring the body's power to heal itself....

    Prix courant: 55,98$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 55,98$ 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
    • 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

    Prix réduit: 32,62$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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

    Prix réduit: 28,27$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 38,97$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 38,97$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize
    • Auteur(s): Sean B. Carroll
    • Narrateur(s): Byron Wagner
    • Durée: 17 h et 6 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-06-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • The never-before-told account of the intersection of some of the most insightful minds of the 20th century, and a fascinating look at how war, resistance, and friendship can catalyze genius....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
    • Auteur(s): Candice Millard
    • Narrateur(s): Paul Michael
    • Durée: 9 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-09-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 évaluations
    • James A. Garfield may have been the most extraordinary man ever elected president....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ 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....

    Prix courant: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

    • Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
    • Auteur(s): Joshua D. Mezrich
    • Narrateur(s): Josh Bloomberg
    • Durée: 11 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-01-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • At the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Joshua Mezrich creates life from loss, transplanting organs from one body to another. In this intimate, profoundly moving work, he illuminates the extraordinary field of transplantation that enables this kind of miracle to happen every day....

    Prix courant: 31,46$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 31,46$ ou 1 crédit

    • Medicine & Inventions
    • Auteur(s): iMinds
    • Narrateur(s): Luca James Lee
    • Durée: 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2009-09-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Learn about the invention of The Internet with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series....

    Prix courant: 2,45$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 2,45$ ou 1 crédit

    • The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
    • Auteur(s): Sam Kean
    • Narrateur(s): Henry Leyva
    • Durée: 12 h et 37 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-05-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 évaluations
    • The author of the best seller The Disappearing Spoon reveals the secret inner workings of the brain through strange but true stories....

    Prix courant: 32,31$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 32,31$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Fight Against Pain
    • Auteur(s): Thomas Dormandy
    • Narrateur(s): Derek Perkins
    • Durée: 20 h et 38 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-03-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • This riveting audiobook takes the listener around the globe and through the centuries to discover how different cultures have sought to combat and treat physical pain....

    Prix courant: 40,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 40,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear
    • Auteur(s): Seth Mnookin
    • Narrateur(s): Dan John Miller
    • Durée: 10 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-01-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • [A] gripping scientific detective story about how grassroots radicals, snake-oil salesmen, and cynical journalists have perpetrated the biggest health-scare hoax of all time.....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit