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    • How to Prepare for the Coming Climate Disruption
    • Auteur(s): Alice C. Hill, Leonardo Martinez-Diaz
    • Narrateur(s): Christina Delaine
    • Durée: 6 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-04-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Building a Resilient Tomorrow starts with two central facts: Climate impacts will continue to occur, and we can make changes now to mitigate their effects....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ 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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    • 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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    • 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

    Prix réduit: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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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    • 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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    • The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic
    • Auteur(s): Gay Salisbury, Laney Salisbury
    • Narrateur(s): Barrett Whitener
    • Durée: 9 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2003-11-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • The thrilling account of a dog sled race across Alaska in 1925 to head off a deadly epidemic...

    Prix courant: 23,14$ 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....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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

    Prix réduit: 10,01$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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....

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    • Your Comprehensive Guide to the Manipulative Psychology, Malformed Philosophy, and Misrepresented Science that Supercharged a Global Hysteria
    • Auteur(s): Dr. Philip Buckler
    • Narrateur(s): Philip Buckler
    • Durée: 19 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-11-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • If you have ever worn a mask against your better judgement, this book is for you. Delve into the science, psychology, and philosophy involved in the worldwide mania for face coverings....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
    • Auteur(s): Jim Downs
    • Narrateur(s): David Colacci
    • Durée: 9 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-05-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Most stories of medical progress come with ready-made heroes. John Snow traced the origins of London's 1854 cholera outbreak to a water pump, leading to the birth of epidemiology....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
    • Auteur(s): Sonia Shah
    • Narrateur(s): Sonia Shah
    • Durée: 9 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-02-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Interweaving history, original reportage, and personal narrative, Pandemic explores the origin of epidemics, drawing parallels between cholera and the new pathogens that stalk humankind today....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ 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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