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    • Auteur(s): Thomas Hager
    • Narrateur(s): Stephen Hoye
    • Durée: 12 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2006-10-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 évaluations
    • Fast-paced, suspenseful, and utterly satisfying, The Demon Under the Microscope is a sweeping history of the discovery of the first antibiotic and its dramatic effect on the world....

    Prix courant: 23,38$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 23,38$ ou 1 crédit

    • Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
    • Auteur(s): Lindsey Fitzharris
    • Narrateur(s): Ralph Lister
    • Durée: 7 h et 54 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-10-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 169 évaluations
    • In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of 19th-century surgery on the eve of profound transformation....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Terrifying True Story
    • Auteur(s): Richard Preston
    • Narrateur(s): Richard M. Davidson
    • Durée: 11 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-04-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • A highly infectious virus from the African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days, 90 percent of its victims are dead....

    Prix courant: 26,21$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,21$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, The Epidemic That Shaped Our History
    • Auteur(s): Molly Caldwell Crosby
    • Narrateur(s): Paul Woodson
    • Durée: 8 h et 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-12-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Compelling and terrifying, The American Plague depicts the story of yellow fever and its reign in this country - and in Africa, where even today it strikes thousands every year....

    Prix courant: 18,92$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 18,92$ ou 1 crédit

    • Memory, Teachings, and Story Medicine (Critical Studies in Native History, Book 15)
    • Auteur(s): Kim Anderson, Maria Campbell - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Marsha Knight, Maria Campbell
    • Durée: 9 h et 42 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-12-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In Life Stages and Native Women, Kim Anderson shares the teachings of fourteen elders from the Canadian prairies and Ontario to illustrate how different life stages were experienced by Metis, Cree, and Anishinaabe girls and women during the mid-twentieth century....

    Prix courant: 34,77$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 34,77$ ou 1 crédit

    • A History of the Encounter Between Humanity's Two Greatest Institutions
    • Auteur(s): Jeff Levin, Stephen G. Post - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Tom Parks
    • Durée: 12 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-09-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Though the current political climate might lead one to suspect that religion and medicine make for uncomfortable bedfellows, the two institutions have a long history of alliance. Religion and medicine have encountered one another from antiquity through the present day....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    • Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection
    • Auteur(s): Sam Apple
    • Narrateur(s): Mark Bramhall
    • Durée: 12 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-05-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • The extraordinary story of the Nazi-era scientific genius who discovered how cancer cells eat - and what it means for how we should....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

    • A True Story
    • Auteur(s): Richard Preston
    • Narrateur(s): Paul Boehmer
    • Durée: 8 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2003-09-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 évaluations
    • The first major bioterror event in the United States - the anthrax attacks in October 2001 - was a clarion call for scientists who work with "hot" agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons....

    Prix courant: 20,92$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 20,92$ ou 1 crédit

    • Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
    • Auteur(s): Elinor Cleghorn
    • Narrateur(s): Hanako Footman
    • Durée: 14 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-06-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 évaluations
    • A trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women’s health - from the earliest medical ideas about women’s illnesses to hormones and autoimmune diseases - brought together in a fascinating, sweeping narrative....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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

    Prix réduit: 20,04$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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

    • The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today
    • Auteur(s): Elizabeth Comen
    • Narrateur(s): Anna Caputo
    • Durée: 13 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-02-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A surprising, groundbreaking, and fiercely entertaining medical history that is both a collective narrative of women’s bodies and a call to action for a new conversation around women’s health.

    Prix courant: 32,62$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 32,62$ 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

    • 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

    • 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
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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

    Prix réduit: 24,49$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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

    Prix réduit: 19,99$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ 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

    • 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