Medical History

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    • The Unknown History of Human Heredity
    • Auteur(s): Theodore M. Porter
    • Narrateur(s): Mike Chamberlain
    • Durée: 14 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-06-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Almost from the beginning, they pointed to heredity as the most important of these causes....

    Prix courant: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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

    Prix réduit: 19,86$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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

    Prix réduit: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The harrowing, true-life rescue of Nigerian burn victims and the race against time and distance....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

    • Virago Modern Classics
    • Auteur(s): Monica Dickens, Lissa Evans
    • Narrateur(s): Katy Sobey
    • Durée: 7 h et 42 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-04-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Considering herself unsuitable for any other contribution to the war effort, Monica Dickens opts for nursing, imagining herself gliding through the wards, serene in a pure white halo cap. On enrolment, however, she is promptly stripped of all illusions....

    Prix courant: 26,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,00$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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....

    Prix courant: 30,30$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 30,30$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Ken Burns, David Blistein
    • Narrateur(s): Graham Winton
    • Durée: 1 h et 54 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-11-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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

    • 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

    Prix réduit: 41,22$ ou 1 crédit

    • Our Greatest Triumphs in the Race to Cure Humanity's Deadliest Diseases
    • Auteur(s): Andrew Lam
    • Narrateur(s): Jason Vu
    • Durée: 10 h et 42 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-06-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Dr. Andrew Lam, an award-winning author and retinal surgeon, distills the long arc of medical progress down to the crucial moments that were responsible for the world's greatest medical miracles....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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

    Prix réduit: 28,27$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Memoir
    • Auteur(s): Patti Davis
    • Narrateur(s): Staci Snell
    • Durée: 5 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2004-11-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Patti Davis, the daughter of Ronald and Nancy Reagan, writes about losing her father to Alzheimer's disease, saying goodbye in stages....

    Prix courant: 20,40$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 20,40$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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....

    Prix courant: 24,46$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 24,46$ 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
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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....

    Prix courant: 20,40$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 20,40$ ou 1 crédit

    • Our Ailing Nation, My Body’s Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life
    • Auteur(s): Jennifer Lunden
    • Narrateur(s): Anna Caputo
    • Durée: 12 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-05-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • This wide-ranging, genre-crossing literary mystery interweaves the author’s quest to understand the source of her own condition with her telling of the story of the chronically ill 19th-century diarist Alice James—ultimately uncovering the many hidden health hazards of life in America....

    Prix courant: 32,62$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 32,62$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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

    Prix réduit: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Steve Davis, Kavus Torabi
    • Narrateur(s): Kavus Torabi, Steve Davis
    • Durée: 10 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-04-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • The story of two outsiders and obsessives whose collision prompted an evangelistic alliance on the furthest frontiers of underground music....

    Prix courant: 33,53$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 33,53$ ou 1 crédit

    • How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery
    • Auteur(s): Lawrence Ingrassia
    • Narrateur(s): Roger Wayne
    • Durée: 9 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-05-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Weaving his own moving family story with a sweeping history of cancer research, Lawrence Ingrassia delivers an intimate, gripping tale that sits at the intersection of memoir and medical thriller.

    Prix courant: 26,21$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,21$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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....

    Prix courant: 30,25$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 30,25$ ou 1 crédit