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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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    • 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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    • 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
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    • 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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    • Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid
    • Auteur(s): William D. Lopez
    • Narrateur(s): Robert Fass
    • Durée: 6 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-09-24
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • On a Thursday in November of 2013, Guadalupe Morales waited anxiously with her sister-in-law and their four small children. Every Latino man who drove away from their shared apartment above a small auto repair shop that day had failed to return - arrested, one by one, by ICE agents....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ 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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    • Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia
    • Auteur(s): Elizabeth Catte
    • Narrateur(s): Jo Anna Perrin
    • Durée: 6 h et 18 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-04-20
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Between 1927 and 1979, more than 8,000 people were involuntarily sterilized in five hospitals across the state of Virginia. From this plain and terrible fact springs Elizabeth Catte's Pure America, a sweeping, unsparing history of eugenics in Virginia....

    Prix courant: 17,81$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew About Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields of Human Knowledge
    • Auteur(s): Richard Zacks
    • Narrateur(s): Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Durée: 17 h et 27 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-02-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • For the truly well-rounded "intellectual," nothing fascinates so much as the subversive, the contrarian, the suppressed, and the bizarre. Richard Zacks has unloosed his admittedly strange mind and astonishing research abilities upon the entire spectrum of human knowledge....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ 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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    • 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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    • 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....

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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
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    • 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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    • A Medical Mystery
    • Auteur(s): D.T. Max
    • Narrateur(s): Grover Gardner
    • Durée: 8 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2006-10-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 évaluations
    • For 200 years, a noble Venetian family has suffered from an inherited disease that strikes their members in middle age, stealing their sleep, eating holes in their brains....

    Prix courant: 27,77$ 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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    • One Hospital's Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic's Front Lines
    • Auteur(s): Marie Brenner
    • Narrateur(s): Kirsten Potter
    • Durée: 15 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-06-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • A remarkable depiction of a city in crisis—based on new, behind-the-scenes reporting—that captures the resilience, peril, and compassion of the early days of the COVID pandemic....

    Prix courant: 32,04$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Ages
    • Auteur(s): Nathan Belofsky
    • Narrateur(s): Chris Andrew Ciulla
    • Durée: 5 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-10-26
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Now published in five languages, Strange Medicine casts a gimlet eye on the practice of medicine through the ages that highlights the most dubious ideas, bizarre treatments, and biggest blunders....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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

    Prix courant: 15,15$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Exploring the History, Science, and Future of Cardiac Disease
    • Auteur(s): Haider Warraich
    • Narrateur(s): Neil Shah
    • Durée: 11 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-07-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In State of the Heart, the journey to rid the world of heart disease is shown to be reflective of the journey of medical science at large. We are learning not only that women have as much heart disease as men, but that the type of heart disease women experience is...different....

    Prix courant: 32,00$ 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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    • History of Man Series, Book 5
    • Auteur(s): John Bershof
    • Narrateur(s): John Fox Bershof
    • Série: History of Man Series
    • Durée: 18 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-10-04
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The Fifth History of Man has a few parting shots at viruses but mostly continues with the world of parasites, from tick disease that tick us off, Old Lyme, Connecticut and Lyme disease, toxoplasmosis, Crazy Cat Lady and her clowder of cats, then on into a discussion of the avatar of parasites....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Medicine's Battles with History's Deadliest Diseases
    • Auteur(s): Lindsey Fitzharris, Adrian Teal
    • Narrateur(s): Hunter Johns
    • Durée: 2 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-10-10
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Smallpox! Rabies! Black Death! Throughout history humankind has been plagued by...well, by plagues. The symptoms of these diseases were gruesome—but the remedies were even worse....

    Prix courant: 13,00$ ou 1 crédit

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