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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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    • 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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    • A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry
    • Written by: Ned Sublette, Constance Sublette
    • Narrated by: Robin Eller
    • Length: 30 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 2015-12-27
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The American Slave Coast is an alternative history of the United States that presents the slavery business, as well as familiar historical figures and events, in a revealing new light....

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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 208 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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    • Why Lies Matter to the Race Grievance Industry
    • Written by: Taleeb Starkes
    • Narrated by: Taleeb Starkes
    • Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 2017-03-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Year after year a seemingly unshakable reality of violence plagues Black communities nationwide....

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    • The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans
    • Written by: Jane Marie
    • Narrated by: Jane Marie
    • Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2024-03-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to expose the scourge of multilevel marketing schemes and how they have profited off the evisceration of the American working class.

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    • How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
    • Written by: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 2020-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Narrating the story of a sea-change in housing policy and its dire impact on African Americans, Race for Profit reveals how the urban core was transformed into a new frontier of cynical extraction....

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    • The Women Who Ran Hollywood
    • Written by: J. E. Smyth
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 2018-07-31
    • Language: English
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    • The first comprehensive history of Hollywood's high-flying career women during the studio era, Nobody's Girl Friday covers the impact of the executives, producers, editors, writers, agents, designers, directors, and actresses who shaped Hollywood film production and style....

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • Inside the Battle to Bring Down the Opioid Industry
    • Written by: Scott Higham, Sari Horwitz
    • Narrated by: Kiff VandenHeuvel
    • Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 2022-07-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The definitive investigation and exposé of how some of the nation's largest corporations created and fueled the opioid crisis....

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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 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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    • Inside the Trillion Dollar Dilemma Facing Hollywood, the NBA, & American Business
    • Written by: Chris Fenton
    • Narrated by: Gabriel Vaughan
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 2020-10-06
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A deeply revealing memoir of big wins and hard lessons from a seasoned executive caught smack in the middle of the trillion-dollar soft power struggle pitting China against Hollywood, the NBA, and American business....

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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 Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry
    • Written by: Paul Starr
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 24 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 2018-07-18
    • Language: English
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    • Considered the definitive history of the American healthcare system, The Social Transformation of American Medicine examines how the roles of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs have evolved over the last two and a half centuries....

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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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