American Health Care

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    • How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
    • Written by: Elisabeth Rosenthal
    • Narrated by: Nancy Linari
    • Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 2017-04-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Award-winning New York Times reporter Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal reveals the dangerous, expensive, and dysfunctional American health-care system....

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    • The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
    • Written by: Harriet A. Washington
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 19 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 2016-03-08
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans....

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    • What Broke American Health Care - and How to Fix It
    • Written by: Marty Makary MD
    • Narrated by: Marty Makary MD
    • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 2020-01-31
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • From the New York Times best-selling author of Unaccountable comes an eye-opening, urgent look at America's broken health care system - and the people who are saving it....

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    • How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It
    • Written by: John Abramson
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 2022-02-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • The inside story of how Big Pharma’s relentless pursuit of ever-higher profits corrupts medical knowledge—misleading doctors, misdirecting American health care, and harming our health....

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    • Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
    • Written by: Deirdre Cooper Owens
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 2019-05-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • 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....

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    • How We Lost Our Health Care System
    • Written by: Robert W. Derlet
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 2021-03-23
    • Language: English
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    • Over the past three decades, the once-efficient American health care system has evolved into a complex maze of monopolies and a racket of bureaucratic checks, approvals, denials, roadblocks, and detours....

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    • Written by: Rebecca Skloot
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 2010-02-02
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 209 ratings
    • 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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    • An Insiders' Account of the Shocking Medical Experiment Conducted by Government Doctors Against African American Men
    • Written by: Fred D. Gray
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 2021-01-26
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • 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....

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    • The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination
    • Written by: Alondra Nelson
    • Narrated by: Machelle Williams
    • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 2021-04-27
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Between its founding in 1966 and its formal end in 1980, the Black Panther Party blazed a distinctive trail in American political culture. Here Alondra Nelson deftly recovers an indispensable but lesser-known aspect of the organization's broader struggle for social justice: health care....

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    • The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, The Epidemic That Shaped Our History
    • Written by: Molly Caldwell Crosby
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 2017-12-05
    • Language: English
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    • Compelling and terrifying, The American Plague depicts the story of yellow fever and its reign in this country - and in Africa, where even today it strikes thousands every year....

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    • A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
    • Written by: Anne Fadiman
    • Narrated by: Pamela Xiong
    • Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 2015-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion....

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    • The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek
    • Written by: Howard Markel
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 2018-08-08
    • Language: English
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    • 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....

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    • How American Health Care Killed My Father--and How We Can Fix It
    • Written by: David Goldhill
    • Narrated by: Dean Sluyter
    • Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 2013-01-08
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A visionary investigation that will change the way we think about health care....

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    • The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
    • Written by: Kevin Hazzard
    • Narrated by: Gilbert Glenn Brown
    • Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 2022-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the world....

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    • A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care
    • Written by: Dayna Bowen Matthew
    • Narrated by: Diana Blue
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 2020-11-17
    • Language: English
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    • Health disparities have remained stubbornly entrenched in the American health care system - and in Just Medicine Dayna Bowen Matthew finds that they principally arise from unconscious racial and ethnic biases held by physicians, institutional providers, and their patients....

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    • Ethics in Science
    • Written by: Scientific American
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 2020-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In Doing the Right Thing: Ethics in Science, we cover a wide range of areas in science and medicine where complicated ethical questions come to bear, including genomics and research where informed - and ethically sound - choices are the basis of many scientific studies.

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    • Rabies, Medicine, and Society in an American Metropolis, 1840-1920
    • Written by: Jessica Wang
    • Narrated by: Xe Sands
    • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 2019-10-29
    • Language: English
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    • Rabies enjoys a fearsome and lurid reputation. In Mad Dogs and Other New Yorkers, Jessica Wang examines the history of this rare but dreaded affliction during a time of rapid urbanization....

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