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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....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 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

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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

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    • 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

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    • 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

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    • 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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    • 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
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The True Story of the Maverick Who Pioneered Open Heart Surgery
    • Auteur(s): G. Wayne Miller
    • Narrateur(s): Patrick Cullen
    • Durée: 7 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2003-04-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • G. Wayne Miller has dramatically and meticulously reconstructed an amazing true story...

    Prix courant: 17,12$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry
    • Auteur(s): Paul Starr
    • Narrateur(s): Sean Runnette
    • Durée: 24 h et 5 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-07-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Considered the definitive history of the American healthcare system, The Social Transformation of American Medicine examines how the roles of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs have evolved over the last two and a half centuries....

    Prix courant: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Notes of a Medicine Watcher
    • Auteur(s): Lewis Thomas
    • Narrateur(s): George Guidall
    • Durée: 8 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-08-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In this partially autobiographical work, best-selling author Lewis Thomas offers insights on subjects as wide-ranging as gender differences, how it feels to be a patient, human vs. computer intelligence....

    Prix courant: 32,41$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 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

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    • 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

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    • From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation
    • Auteur(s): Paul A. Offit MD
    • Narrateur(s): James Noel Hoban
    • Durée: 6 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-09-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • In You Bet Your Life, physician Paul A. Offit argues that, from the first blood transfusions 400 years ago to the hunt for a COVID-19 vaccine, risk has been essential to the discovery of new treatments....

    Prix courant: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

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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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    • Auteur(s): Steve Parker
    • Narrateur(s): Laurel Lefkow
    • Durée: 12 h et 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-04-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Immerse yourself in the history of medicine - a colorful story of skill, serendipity, trial and error, moments of genius, and dogged determination....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison
    • Auteur(s): David Wootton
    • Narrateur(s): Charles Constant
    • Durée: 10 h et 21 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-12-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • David Wootton traces an intellectual and cultural revolution that replaced the older systems of Aristotelian ethics and Christian morality with the instrumental reasoning that now gives shape and purpose to our lives....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Deadly Genetic Disease, a New Era in Science, and the Patients and Families Who Changed Medicine Forever
    • Auteur(s): Bijal P. Trivedi
    • Narrateur(s): Deepti Gupta
    • Durée: 20 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-12-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • Cystic fibrosis was once a mysterious disease that killed infants and children. Now it could be the key to healing millions with genetic diseases of every type - from Alzheimer's and Parkinson's to diabetes and sickle cell anemia....

    Prix courant: 41,22$ 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
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    • 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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    • 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....

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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
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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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