Medical America History

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    • The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
    • Auteur(s): Harriet A. Washington
    • Narrateur(s): Ron Butler
    • Durée: 19 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-03-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 32 évaluations
    • Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans....

    Prix courant: 26,72$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
    • Auteur(s): Deirdre Cooper Owens
    • Narrateur(s): Allyson Johnson
    • Durée: 5 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-05-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 évaluations
    • Medical Bondage moves between southern plantations and northern urban centers to reveal how 19th-century American ideas about race, health, and status influenced doctor-patient relationships in sites of healing like slave cabins, medical colleges, and hospitals....

    Prix courant: 17,81$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Jonathan Letterman, the Civil War Doctor Who Pioneered Battlefield Care
    • Auteur(s): Scott McGaugh
    • Narrateur(s): Kyle Munley
    • Durée: 11 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-07-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The first full-length biography of the Civil War surgeon who, over the course of the war’s bloodiest battles - from Antietam to Gettysburg - redefined military medicine....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Social History of Marijuana - Medical, Recreational, and Scientific
    • Auteur(s): Martin A. Lee
    • Narrateur(s): Nick Podehl
    • Durée: 21 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-08-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 évaluations
    • Martin A. Lee traces the dramatic social history of marijuana, from its origins to its emergence in the 1960s as a defining force in a culture war that has never ceased....

    Prix courant: 49,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How America’s Obsession Shaped Me...and You
    • Auteur(s): Leslie Lehr
    • Narrateur(s): Leslie Lehr
    • Durée: 12 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-05-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • A Boob’s Life explores the surprising truth about women’s most popular body part with vulnerable, witty frankness and true nuggets of American culture that will resonate with everyone who has breasts - or loves them....

    Prix courant: 23,18$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims
    • Auteur(s): Jennifer Vanderbes
    • Narrateur(s): Jennifer Vanderbes
    • Durée: 10 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-06-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • A riveting account of the most notorious drug of the twentieth century and the never-before-told story of its American survivors....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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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    • America’s Untested, Unregulated Medical Device Industry and One Man’s Battle to Survive It
    • Auteur(s): Jeanne Lenzer
    • Narrateur(s): Jeanne Lenzer
    • Durée: 10 h et 6 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-12-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • The majority of high-risk implanted medical devices have never undergone a single clinical trial. The FDA lets device manufacturers decide whether to report serious complications or deaths....

    Prix courant: 28,27$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care
    • Auteur(s): John Dittmer
    • Narrateur(s): Justine Eyre
    • Durée: 11 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-03-01
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The Medical Committee for Human Rights was organized in the summer of 1964 by medical professionals to provide care and support for Civil Rights activists....

    Prix courant: 33,01$ ou 1 crédit

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    • An Insiders' Account of the Shocking Medical Experiment Conducted by Government Doctors Against African American Men
    • Auteur(s): Fred D. Gray
    • Narrateur(s): David Sadzin
    • Durée: 5 h et 6 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-01-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • In 1932, the US Public Health Service recruited 623 African American men from Macon County, Alabama, for a study of "the effects of untreated syphilis in the Negro male". For the next 40 years, these men were denied medical care for this potentially fatal disease....

    Prix courant: 21,92$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become America’s First Indian Doctor
    • Auteur(s): Joe Starita
    • Narrateur(s): Carrington MacDuffie
    • Durée: 8 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-11-01
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • On March 14, 1889, Susan La Flesche received her medical degree - becoming the first Native American doctor in US history....

    Prix courant: 32,38$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A History of Race & Disease
    • Auteur(s): Arleen Marcia Tuchman
    • Narrateur(s): Kirsten Potter
    • Durée: 8 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-08-05
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Who is considered most at risk for diabetes, and why? In this thorough, engaging book, historian Arleen Tuchman examines and critiques how these questions have been answered by both the public and medical communities for over a century in the United States....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • An Intimate Journey Into America's Mental Health Crisis
    • Auteur(s): Kenneth Paul Rosenberg
    • Narrateur(s): Kenneth Paul Rosenberg
    • Durée: 6 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-10-01
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • A psychiatrist and award-winning documentarian sheds light on the mental-healthcare crisis in the United States....

    Prix courant: 20,40$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Medical Backstory of Spinal Tuberculosis Hidden in the Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham
    • Auteur(s): Dennis A. Rasbach MD FACS
    • Narrateur(s): Ben Collins
    • Durée: 5 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-09-17
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Invalid teenager Leroy Wiley Gresham left a seven-volume diary spanning the years of secession and the Civil War. He was just 12 when he began, and he died at 17. LeRoy’s diary offers an inside look at a fateful journey that robbed an energetic and likeable young man of his youth and life....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Remarkable Life of Medical Pioneer and Legendary Rock Climber Hans Kraus
    • Auteur(s): E.B. Schwartz
    • Narrateur(s): Joe Barrett
    • Durée: 9 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-03-22
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • JFK's Secret Doctor tells a thrilling story of adventure and a historic medical career....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • What's Behind the Hidden Costs of Healthcare in America
    • Auteur(s): Marnie Hall, Hal Rosenbluth
    • Narrateur(s): Stephen Graybill, Erin Bennett
    • Durée: 5 h et 17 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-06-18
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Hal Rosenbluth shares a brutally honest but humorous account of the journey through the labyrinth of health care, including an eye-opening exploration of the skyrocketing costs—both personal and systemic—inflicted by hypochondria and the cost to the nation’s health-care system.

    Prix courant: 20,09$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 20,09$ ou 1 crédit

    • Remembering Leprosy in America
    • Auteur(s): Marcia Gaudet
    • Narrateur(s): Robin J. Sitten
    • Durée: 4 h et 19 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-01-10
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In Carville, Louisiana, the closed doors of the nation's last center for the treatment of leprosy open to reveal stories of sadness, separation, and even strength in the face of what was once a life-wrenching diagnosis....

    Prix courant: 18,74$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Human Experimentation in America before the Second World War
    • Auteur(s): Susan E. Lederer
    • Narrateur(s): Lisa S. Ware
    • Durée: 7 h et 19 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-04-16
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Long before the U.S. government began conducting secret radiation and germ-warfare experiments, and long before the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, medical professionals had introduced—and hotly debated the ethics of—the use of human subjects in medical experiments.

    Prix courant: 21,92$ ou 1 crédit

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