Medical History

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    • And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine
    • Auteur(s): Thomas Morris
    • Narrateur(s): Thomas Morris, Ruper Farley
    • Durée: 9 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-11-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 évaluations
    • A puzzling series of dental explosions beginning in the 19th century is just one of many strange tales that have long lain undiscovered in the pages of old medical journals. Award-winning medical historian Thomas Morris delivers a remarkable, cringe-inducing collection of stories....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection
    • Auteur(s): Sam Apple
    • Narrateur(s): Mark Bramhall
    • Durée: 12 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-05-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • The extraordinary story of the Nazi-era scientific genius who discovered how cancer cells eat - and what it means for how we should....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • An Irish Country Novel
    • Auteur(s): Patrick Taylor
    • Narrateur(s): John Keating
    • Série: Irish Country, Livre 14
    • Durée: 14 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-11-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 évaluations
    • Before Doctor Barry Laverty joined Doctor Fingal O’Reilly's practice in the colorful Irish village of Ballybucklebo, he was an intern, working long hours, practicing new medical techniques, falling in love, and learning what is most important in the medical field for a family physician....

    Prix courant: 26,21$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age
    • Auteur(s): James L. Nolan Jr.
    • Narrateur(s): Adam Lofbomm
    • Durée: 9 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-10-20
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • After his father died, James L. Nolan, Jr., took possession of a box of private family materials. To his surprise, the small secret archive contained a treasure trove of information about his grandfather's role as a doctor in the Manhattan Project....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Complete Story
    • Auteur(s): Gerald Posner, John Ware, Michael Berenbaum - introduction
    • Narrateur(s): Bruce Mann
    • Durée: 15 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-01-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • Based on exclusive and unrestricted access to more than 5,000 pages of personal writings and family photos, this definitive biography of German physician and SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Josef Mengele (1911-1979) probes the personality and motivations of Auschwitz's "Angel of Death"....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ 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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    • A Doctor’s Year in Vietnam
    • Auteur(s): John A. Parrish
    • Narrateur(s): Noah Michael Levine
    • Durée: 10 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-01-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • The candid memoir of a young doctor who reluctantly accepts a military commission and spends a year behind the front lines of the Vietnam War....

    Prix courant: 33,01$ ou 1 crédit

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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....

    Prix courant: 17,75$ 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 208 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....

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    • A Doctor, a Drug, and a Breakthrough
    • Auteur(s): Walter A. Brown
    • Narrateur(s): Shawn Compton
    • Durée: 7 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-08-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • From insulin comas and lobotomy to incarceration and exile, Walter Brown chronicles the troubling history of the diagnosis and (often ineffective) treatment of bipolar disorder through the centuries....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ 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....

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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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    • The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything
    • Auteur(s): Randi Hutter Epstein MD
    • Narrateur(s): Donna Postel
    • Durée: 9 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-08-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • A fascinating exploration of the history and science of one of medicine's most important discoveries, Aroused reveals how hormones can both push us to the edge and reel us back....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Life
    • Auteur(s): Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs
    • Narrateur(s): Pam Ward
    • Durée: 20 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-10-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • The authoritative account of one of the 20th century's most important - and controversial - scientists....

    Prix courant: 30,25$ 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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