Medical History

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    • Inside the Minds of History's Great Personalities
    • Auteur(s): Claudia Kalb
    • Narrateur(s): Lisa Larsen
    • Durée: 10 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-07-13
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Was Andy Warhol a hoarder? Did Einstein have autism? In this surprising, inventive, and meticulously researched look at the evolution of mental health, acclaimed health and science journalist Claudia Kalb gives listeners a glimpse into the lives of high-profile historic figures....

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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....

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    • A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness
    • Auteur(s): Jack El-Hai
    • Narrateur(s): Peter Lerman
    • Durée: 15 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-03-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • The Lobotomist explores one of the darkest chapters of American medicine: the desperate attempt to treat the hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients in need of help during the middle decades of the 20th century....

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    • A Journey of Remembrance and Forgetting
    • Auteur(s): Tracy Kidder
    • Narrateur(s): Tracy Kidder
    • Durée: 8 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2009-08-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • In this new book, Kidder gives us the superb story of a hero for our time. Strength in What Remains is a wonderfully written, inspiring account of one man’s remarkable American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him–a brilliant testament to the power of will and of second chances....

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    • A Jewish Doctor in Poland, 1939-1945
    • Auteur(s): Edward Reicher, Magda Bogin - translator
    • Narrateur(s): Suzanne Toren, Robert Blumenfeld
    • Durée: 8 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-03-05
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Country of Ash is the starkly compelling, original chronicle of a Jewish doctor who miraculously survived near-certain death, first inside the Lodz and Warsaw ghettoes, where he was forced to treat the Gestapo....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis
    • Auteur(s): Sherwin B. Nuland
    • Narrateur(s): Peter Lerman
    • Durée: 5 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-06-30
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Ignác Semmelweis is remembered for the now-commonplace notion that doctors must wash their hands before examining patients. In mid-19th century Vienna, however, this was a subversive idea. Semmelweis discovered that doctors themselves were spreading the disease....

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    • An American Company's Dramatic Rescue of Nigerian Burn Victims
    • Auteur(s): Richard D. Stewart
    • Narrateur(s): Elijah Alexander
    • Durée: 5 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-02-01
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The harrowing, true-life rescue of Nigerian burn victims and the race against time and distance....

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    • When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far
    • Auteur(s): Paul A. Offit
    • Narrateur(s): Tim H. Dixon
    • Durée: 7 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-04-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • An acclaimed medical expert and patient advocate offers an eye-opening look at many common and widely used medical interventions that have been shown to be far more harmful than helpful....

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    • A Memoir of Love and Fate
    • Auteur(s): Ami McKay
    • Narrateur(s): Ami McKay
    • Durée: 9 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-09-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 évaluations
    • Weaving together family history, genetic discovery, and scenes from her life, Ami McKay tells the compelling, true-science story of her own family's unsettling legacy of hereditary cancer....

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    • The Way to Healing
    • Auteur(s): Victoria Sweet
    • Narrateur(s): Victoria Sweet
    • Durée: 9 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-10-17
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The award-winning author of God's Hotel offers a radical reimagining of how we practice medicine....

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    • Auteur(s): Otto F. Apel JR. M.D., Pat Apel
    • Narrateur(s): Dr. Bill Brooks
    • Durée: 9 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-01-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • When North Korean forces invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950, Otto Apel was a surgical resident living in Cleveland, Ohio, with his wife and three young children....

    Prix courant: 26,40$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A History of Brainwashing from Pavlov to Social Media
    • Auteur(s): Joel E. Dimsdale
    • Narrateur(s): Eric Jason Martin
    • Durée: 9 h et 49 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-08-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • This gripping book traces the evolution of brainwashing from its beginnings in torture and religious conversion into the age of neuroscience and social media....

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    • The Impossible Adventure of a Spiritual Seeker and Visionary Physician Who Helped Conquer the Worst Disease in History
    • Auteur(s): Larry Brilliant
    • Narrateur(s): Fred Sanders
    • Durée: 12 h et 27 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-10-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • The unforgettable, entertaining, and inspiring memoir of the activist, teacher, entrepreneur, and spiritual leader that illuminates some of the most revolutionary events of a generation....

    Prix courant: 29,13$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentlemen Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail
    • Auteur(s): Stephen Bown
    • Narrateur(s): Dan Cashman
    • Durée: 7 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-05-06
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • From the 15th to the mid-19th centuries, scurvy caused more deaths at sea than storms, shipwrecks, combat, and all other diseases combined. The cure for scurvy ranks among the greatest of military successes, yet its impact on history has mostly been ignored....

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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....

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    • The Race to Stop an Epidemic
    • Auteur(s): Matt McCarthy
    • Narrateur(s): Matt McCarthy
    • Durée: 7 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-05-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 évaluations
    • A New York Times best-selling author shares this exhilarating story of cutting-edge science and the race against the clock to find new treatments in the fight against the antibiotic-resistant bacteria known as superbugs....

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    • A Cultural History of Hypochondria
    • Auteur(s): Caroline Crampton
    • Narrateur(s): Caroline Crampton
    • Durée: 9 h et 23 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-04-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Caroline Crampton’s life was upended at the age of seventeen, when she was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a relatively rare blood cancer. After years of invasive treatment, she was finally given the all clear. But being cured of the cancer didn’t mean she felt well.

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    • Mystery, Medicine, and Alchemy in Renaissance Italy
    • Auteur(s): William Eamon
    • Narrateur(s): Victor Bevine
    • Durée: 11 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-12-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Written by Pulitzer-prize nominated historian William Eamon, The Professor of Secrets entices readers into a dangerous scientific underworld of sorcerers and surgeons....

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