Medical History

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    • The Unlikely History of Radium
    • Auteur(s): Lucy Jane Santos
    • Narrateur(s): Deirdre Whelan
    • Durée: 7 h et 37 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-07-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 évaluations
    • Of all the radioactive elements discovered at the end of the 19th century, it was radium that became the focus of both public fascination and entrepreneurial zeal. Half Lives tells the fascinating, curious, sometimes macabre story of the element....

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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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    • Auteur(s): Rebecca Skloot
    • Narrateur(s): Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
    • Durée: 12 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-02-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 210 évaluations
    • Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Hate and Compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS
    • Auteur(s): Samuel Kline Cohn Jr.
    • Narrateur(s): David Colacci
    • Durée: 29 h et 38 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-10-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Epidemics challenges a dominant hypothesis in the study of epidemics, that invariably across time and space, epidemics provoked hatred, blaming of the "other", and victimizing bearers of epidemic diseases....

    Prix courant: 38,97$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 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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    • The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines
    • Auteur(s): Donald R. Kirsch PhD, Ogi Ogas PhD
    • Narrateur(s): James Foster
    • Durée: 7 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-01-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 évaluations
    • The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race....

    Prix courant: 17,81$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
    • Auteur(s): Anne Fadiman
    • Narrateur(s): Pamela Xiong
    • Durée: 13 h et 37 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-03-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 évaluations
    • When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion....

    Prix courant: 33,53$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): P. T. Barnum
    • Narrateur(s): Rick Adamson
    • Durée: 11 h et 19 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-05-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Here is P. T. Barnum's insightful review of humbugs, scams, deceits (and self-deceits) in culture, economics, entertainment, religion, medicine, and more....

    Prix courant: 30,37$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Forging and Reforging of a Navy SEAL Leader
    • Auteur(s): Jason Redman, John Bruning
    • Narrateur(s): Erik Bergmann
    • Durée: 12 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-11-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 évaluations
    • Navy SEAL Jason Redman served his country courageously and with distinction in Colombia, Peru, Afghanistan, and Iraq, where he commanded mobility and assault forces....

    Prix courant: 31,46$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Life, Death, and Politics at Chicago’s Public Hospital
    • Auteur(s): David A. Ansell MD
    • Narrateur(s): Bronson Pinchot
    • Durée: 7 h et 6 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-10-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • The amazing tale of County is the story of one of America's oldest and most unusual urban hospitals....

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    • Sex, Reproduction & Succession
    • Auteur(s): Sylvia Barbara Soberton
    • Narrateur(s): Christine Rendel
    • Durée: 10 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-06-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • This book concentrates on the medical downfall of the Tudors, examining their gynecological history and medical records....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ 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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    • Inside the Mind of an American Family
    • Auteur(s): Robert Kolker
    • Narrateur(s): Sean Pratt
    • Durée: 13 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-04-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 275 évaluations
    • The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with 12 children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek
    • Auteur(s): Howard Markel
    • Narrateur(s): David Colacci
    • Durée: 16 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-08-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Howard Markel tells the sweeping saga of two extraordinary men, whose lifelong competition and enmity toward one another changed America's notion of health and wellness from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries, and who helped change the course of American medicine, nutrition, wellness, and diet....

    Prix courant: 33,40$ 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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    • Close Calls, Cold Cases, and the Mysteries of Medicine
    • Auteur(s): Brendan Reilly
    • Narrateur(s): Rob Shapiro
    • Durée: 15 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-01-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 évaluations
    • An epic story told by a unique voice in Ameri­can medicine, One Doctor describes life-changing experiences in the career of a distinguished physician....

    Prix courant: 46,30$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Ami McKay
    • Narrateur(s): Ami McKay, Sofia Banzhaf, Aidan deSalaiz, Martha Irving
    • Durée: 10 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-05-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • The Virgin Cure begins in the tenements of lower Manhattan in the year 1871. A series of betrayals lead Moth, at only twelve years old, to the wild, murky world of the Bowery, where eventually she meets Miss Everett, the owner of a brothel....

    Prix courant: 27,97$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew About Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields of Human Knowledge
    • Auteur(s): Richard Zacks
    • Narrateur(s): Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Durée: 17 h et 27 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-02-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • For the truly well-rounded "intellectual," nothing fascinates so much as the subversive, the contrarian, the suppressed, and the bizarre. Richard Zacks has unloosed his admittedly strange mind and astonishing research abilities upon the entire spectrum of human knowledge....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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