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Grief Works
- Stories of Life, Death and Surviving
- By: Julia Samuel
- Narrated by: Julia Samuel
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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Grief Works is a compassionate guide that will inform and engage anyone who is grieving and provide clear advice for those seeking to comfort the bereaved....
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Very helpful.
- By Elene Marsden on 05-04-17
By: Julia Samuel
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Vital Organs
- By: Suzie Edge
- Narrated by: Suzie Edge
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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A journey through history's most famous limbs, organs, and appendages, from TikTok medical historian Dr Suzie Edge....
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Loved it
- By lucylocket on 29-09-23
By: Suzie Edge
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The Emperor of All Maladies
- A Biography of Cancer
- By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 22 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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The Emperor of All Maladies reveals the many faces of an iconic, shape-shifting disease that is the defining plague of our generation....
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Outstanding and inspiring
- By Anonymous User on 15-08-23
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- By: Thomas S. Kuhn
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is essential listening for understanding the history, philosophy, and evolution of science....
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Essential reading for thoughtful people
- By Isolde on 04-09-12
By: Thomas S. Kuhn
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Pox Romana
- The Plague That Shook the Roman World
- By: Colin Elliott
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
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This audiobook gives a dramatic account of the Antonine plague, the mysterious disease that struck the Roman Empire at its pinnacle....
By: Colin Elliott
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A Time for All Things
- The Life of Michael E. DeBakey
- By: Craig A. Miller
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 25 hrs and 15 mins
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He has been called the greatest surgeon of the 20th century. The son of Lebanese immigrants, Michael DeBakey rose from humble beginnings in a backwater Louisiana town to dominate the landscape of modern medicine....
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History of surgery
- By Mmaria on 28-01-24
By: Craig A. Miller
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Grief Works
- Stories of Life, Death and Surviving
- By: Julia Samuel
- Narrated by: Julia Samuel
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Grief Works is a compassionate guide that will inform and engage anyone who is grieving and provide clear advice for those seeking to comfort the bereaved....
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Very helpful.
- By Elene Marsden on 05-04-17
By: Julia Samuel
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Vital Organs
- By: Suzie Edge
- Narrated by: Suzie Edge
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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A journey through history's most famous limbs, organs, and appendages, from TikTok medical historian Dr Suzie Edge....
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Loved it
- By lucylocket on 29-09-23
By: Suzie Edge
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The Emperor of All Maladies
- A Biography of Cancer
- By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 22 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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The Emperor of All Maladies reveals the many faces of an iconic, shape-shifting disease that is the defining plague of our generation....
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Outstanding and inspiring
- By Anonymous User on 15-08-23
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- By: Thomas S. Kuhn
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is essential listening for understanding the history, philosophy, and evolution of science....
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Essential reading for thoughtful people
- By Isolde on 04-09-12
By: Thomas S. Kuhn
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Pox Romana
- The Plague That Shook the Roman World
- By: Colin Elliott
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook gives a dramatic account of the Antonine plague, the mysterious disease that struck the Roman Empire at its pinnacle....
By: Colin Elliott
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A Time for All Things
- The Life of Michael E. DeBakey
- By: Craig A. Miller
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 25 hrs and 15 mins
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He has been called the greatest surgeon of the 20th century. The son of Lebanese immigrants, Michael DeBakey rose from humble beginnings in a backwater Louisiana town to dominate the landscape of modern medicine....
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History of surgery
- By Mmaria on 28-01-24
By: Craig A. Miller
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The Truth About Covid-19
- Exposing the Great Reset, Lockdowns, Vaccine Passports, and the New Normal
- By: Dr. Joseph Mercola, Ronnie Cummins
- Narrated by: Nolan Chase
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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Since early 2020, the world has experienced a series of catastrophic events - a global pandemic caused by a so-called novel coronavirus; international lockdowns and border closings causing widespread business closures, economic collapse, and massive unemployment....
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If This is Right, Then Fear The Future
- By S. Morris on 22-05-21
By: Dr. Joseph Mercola, and others
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The Great Mortality
- An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
- By: John Kelly
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
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The Great Plague is one of the most compelling events in human history—even more so now, when the notion of plague has never loomed larger as a contemporary public concern....
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A bot too flowery for me.
- By Mark on 02-03-24
By: John Kelly
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Plagues and Peoples
- By: William H. McNeill
- Narrated by: Douglas James
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
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Brilliantly conceptualized, William H. McNeill's Plagues and Peoples tells the history of disease is the history of humankind: an interpretation of the world as seen through the extraordinary impact—political, demographic, ecological, and psychological—of disease on cultures.
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And the Band Played On
- Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
- By: Randy Shilts
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 31 hrs and 44 mins
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Upon it's first publication 20 years ago, And The Band Played On was quickly recognized as a masterpiece of investigatve reporting....
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A real time capsule
- By Jim on 17-06-14
By: Randy Shilts
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Vaccines, Autoimmunity, and the Changing Nature of Childhood Illness
- By: Thomas Cowan MD
- Narrated by: Madison Niederhauser
- Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
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Over the past 50 years, rates of autoimmunity and chronic disease have exploded. In this provocative book, Dr. Thomas Cowan argues for a direct causal relationship to a corresponding increase in the number of vaccines American children typically receive....
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No germs necessary
- By Tim M. on 19-10-21
By: Thomas Cowan MD
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Ten Drugs
- How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
- By: Thomas Hager
- Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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Beginning with opium, the “joy plant,” which has been used for 10,000 years, Thomas Hager tells a captivating story of medicine. His subjects include the largely forgotten female pioneer who introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain, the infamous knockout drops, and much more....
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Fascinating!
- By Amazon Customer on 22-07-20
By: Thomas Hager
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Direct Red
- By: Gabriel Weston
- Narrated by: Claire Wille
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
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How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands? What is it like to cut into someone else's body....
By: Gabriel Weston
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The Urge
- Our History of Addiction
- By: Carl Erik Fisher
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
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As a psychiatrist in training fresh from medical school, Carl Erik Fisher found himself face-to-face with an addiction crisis that nearly cost him everything.
By: Carl Erik Fisher
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The Moth in the Iron Lung
- A Biography of Polio
- By: Forrest Maready
- Narrated by: Forrest Maready
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
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A fascinating account of the world’s most famous disease - polio - told as you have never heard it before. Epidemics of paralysis began to rage in the early 1900s, seemingly out of nowhere....
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Fascinating account of the famous disease
- By Toby on 15-09-20
By: Forrest Maready
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The Oldest Cure in the World
- Adventures in the Art and Science of Fasting
- By: Steve Hendricks
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
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A journalist takes listeners into the science and history of intermittent fasting, an ancient practice in the middle of a red-hot resurgence, exploring the body's power to heal itself....
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fast-inating (sorry)
- By Kindle Customer on 02-12-23
By: Steve Hendricks
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Complications
- A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
- By: Atul Gawande
- Narrated by: William David Griffith
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
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Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate...
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Surprising and shocking insights
- By D. Brown on 26-06-13
By: Atul Gawande
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In Search of Madness
- A Psychiatrist's Travels Through the History of Mental Illness
- By: Brendan Kelly
- Narrated by: Ciaran O'Brien
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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In Search of Madness is an exploration of society's changing attitudes towards and attempts to deal with its mentally ill, from the author of The Science of Happiness....
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Show me where the Neuroscientist touched you.
- By Paul on 25-09-22
By: Brendan Kelly
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Between Hope and Fear
- A History of Vaccines and Human Immunity
- By: Michael Kinch
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins
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While detailing the history of vaccine invention, Michael Kinch reveals the ominous reality that our victories against vaccine-preventable diseases are not permanent - and could easily be undone....
By: Michael Kinch
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Doctors at War: Life and Death in a Field Hospital
- The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
- By: Mark de Rond
- Narrated by: Alan Roy
- Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
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Doctors at War is a candid account of a trauma surgical team based, for a tour of duty, at a field hospital in Helmand, Afghanistan....
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A fantastic first listen!
- By Yasmin Abou-Amer on 04-10-20
By: Mark de Rond
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ShadowMan
- An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling
- By: Ron Franscell
- Narrated by: Patty Nieman, Chris Berger
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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ShadowMan is the pulse-pounding account of the first time in history that the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit created a psychological profile to catch a serial killer....
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Interesting
- By Lee on 20-01-24
By: Ron Franscell
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Bedlam's Door
- True Tales of Madness and Hope
- By: Mark Rubinstein
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
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Bedlam's Door depicts the challenges mental illness poses for patients, families, and health-care professionals and offers hope for the future....
By: Mark Rubinstein
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Ravenous
- Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection
- By: Sam Apple
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
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The extraordinary story of the Nazi-era scientific genius who discovered how cancer cells eat - and what it means for how we should....
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Wonderful book!
- By Ally Forbes on 17-08-23
By: Sam Apple
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Slouch
- Posture Panic in Modern America
- By: Beth Linker
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
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This audiobook recounts the strange and surprising history of the so-called epidemic of bad posture in modern America—from eugenics and posture pageants to today’s promoters of “paleo posture”....
By: Beth Linker
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This Won't Hurt
- How Medicine Fails Women
- By: Marieke Bigg
- Narrated by: Daphne Kouma
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
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Dr Marieke Bigg explores the past, present and future of the sexism inherent in medicine and medical research—and how to change it....
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interesting.
- By Roxana on 21-04-23
By: Marieke Bigg
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The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science
- A Scientist's Warning
- By: Peter J. Hotez MD PhD
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
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In this eyewitness story of how the anti-vaccine movement grew into a dangerous and prominent anti-science element in American politics, Dr. Peter J. Hotez describes the devastating impacts it has had on Americans’ health and lives....
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Milk of Paradise
- A History of Opium
- By: Lucy Inglis
- Narrated by: Colleen Prendergast
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
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Poppy tears, opium, heroin, fentanyl: humankind has been in thrall to the ‘Milk of Paradise’ for millennia. The latex of papaver somniferum is a bringer of sleep, of pleasurable lethargy, of relief from pain - and hugely addictive....
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Listen to the Silk Roads by Frankopan instead!
- By Aurifex on 19-09-18
By: Lucy Inglis
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Can Medicine Be Cured?
- By: Seamus O'Mahony
- Narrated by: Seamus O’Mahony
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
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Seamus O'Mahony debunks the great fallacies that drive modern medicine....
By: Seamus O'Mahony
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The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays
- By: Thomas Szasz
- Narrated by: Gary D. MacFadden
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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This collection of impassioned essays, published between 1973 and 2006, chronicles the author's long campaign against the orthodoxies of psychiatry....
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An overview of Szasz's ideas
- By Alan Michael Forrester on 26-12-16
By: Thomas Szasz
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Dreams from My Mother
- By: Dame Elizabeth Anionwu
- Narrated by: Dame Elizabeth Anionwu
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
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Dreams from My Mother is an inspiring story about childhood, race, identity, family, friendship, hope and what makes us who we are. Ultimately, it is an incredibly moving story of a mother and a daughter separated by society, but united in the dreams they shared for her future....
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A beautiful read & what an amazing lady.
- By Anonymous User on 24-01-24
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American Disgust
- Racism, Microbial Medicine, and the Colony Within
- By: Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
- Narrated by: Lee Goettl
- Length: 10 hrs
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At its core, American Disgust wrestles with how changing cultural notions of digestion-what goes into the body and what comes out of it-create and impose racial categories motivated by feelings of disgust rooted in American settler-colonial racism. It shows how disgust is a changing, yet fundamental, aspect of American subjectivity and that engaging with it-personally, politically, and theoretically-opens up possibilities for conceptualizing health at the individual, societal, and planetary levels.
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Plagues and Peoples
- By: William H. McNeill
- Narrated by: Douglas James
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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From the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to the typhoid epidemic in Europe, William H. McNeill's Plagues and Peoples is a brilliantly conceptualized and challenging achievement (Kirkus Reviews). Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history. With the identification of AIDS in the early 1980s, another chapter was added to this chronicle of events, which William McNeill explores in his introduction to this edition.
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Profiles in Mental Health Courage
- By: Patrick J. Kennedy, Stephen Fried
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller, Patrick J. Kennedy
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Several years ago, Patrick J. Kennedy shared the story of his personal and family challenges with mental illness and addiction—and the nation’s—in his bestselling memoir, A Common Struggle. Now, he and his Common Struggle coauthor, award-winning healthcare journalist Stephen Fried, have crafted this powerful new book sharing the untold stories of others—a special group who agreed to talk about their illnesses, treatments, and struggles for the first time.
By: Patrick J. Kennedy, and others
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Open Wide
- Essays on Challenges Facing Dental Practitioners and How to Evade Them to Achieve Excellence
- By: Edward Feinberg
- Narrated by: Brad Derry
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Open Wide is a book that provides a detailed guide of the ramifications on the future of dental care. It also includes essays with constructive advice and inspiring tips on leadership development skills that can help in uplifting the dental professionals to thrive in their career. This book will not only discuss the problems but also identify and address the root causes of certain issues.
By: Edward Feinberg
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Haematomyelia from Gunshot Wounds of the Spine
- A Report of Two Cases, with Recovery Following Symptoms of Hemilesion of the Cord.
- By: Harvey Cushing MD
- Narrated by: Edison McDaniels
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Listen to history's first ever account of a gunshot wound to the spine.
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Death to Beauty
- The Transformative History of Botox
- By: Eugene M. Helveston
- Narrated by: Kyle Snyder
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In the 1970s, Dr. Alan Scott sought to selectively weaken eye muscles to treat strabismus (when one or both eyes are misaligned) without surgery. After failed attempts with other agents, Scott developed a method to stabilize the bacteria that causes botulism, culminating in a drug that eventually became known as Botox.
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American Disgust
- Racism, Microbial Medicine, and the Colony Within
- By: Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
- Narrated by: Lee Goettl
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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At its core, American Disgust wrestles with how changing cultural notions of digestion-what goes into the body and what comes out of it-create and impose racial categories motivated by feelings of disgust rooted in American settler-colonial racism. It shows how disgust is a changing, yet fundamental, aspect of American subjectivity and that engaging with it-personally, politically, and theoretically-opens up possibilities for conceptualizing health at the individual, societal, and planetary levels.
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Plagues and Peoples
- By: William H. McNeill
- Narrated by: Douglas James
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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From the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to the typhoid epidemic in Europe, William H. McNeill's Plagues and Peoples is a brilliantly conceptualized and challenging achievement (Kirkus Reviews). Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history. With the identification of AIDS in the early 1980s, another chapter was added to this chronicle of events, which William McNeill explores in his introduction to this edition.
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Profiles in Mental Health Courage
- By: Patrick J. Kennedy, Stephen Fried
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller, Patrick J. Kennedy
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Several years ago, Patrick J. Kennedy shared the story of his personal and family challenges with mental illness and addiction—and the nation’s—in his bestselling memoir, A Common Struggle. Now, he and his Common Struggle coauthor, award-winning healthcare journalist Stephen Fried, have crafted this powerful new book sharing the untold stories of others—a special group who agreed to talk about their illnesses, treatments, and struggles for the first time.
By: Patrick J. Kennedy, and others
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Open Wide
- Essays on Challenges Facing Dental Practitioners and How to Evade Them to Achieve Excellence
- By: Edward Feinberg
- Narrated by: Brad Derry
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Open Wide is a book that provides a detailed guide of the ramifications on the future of dental care. It also includes essays with constructive advice and inspiring tips on leadership development skills that can help in uplifting the dental professionals to thrive in their career. This book will not only discuss the problems but also identify and address the root causes of certain issues.
By: Edward Feinberg
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Haematomyelia from Gunshot Wounds of the Spine
- A Report of Two Cases, with Recovery Following Symptoms of Hemilesion of the Cord.
- By: Harvey Cushing MD
- Narrated by: Edison McDaniels
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Listen to history's first ever account of a gunshot wound to the spine.
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Death to Beauty
- The Transformative History of Botox
- By: Eugene M. Helveston
- Narrated by: Kyle Snyder
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In the 1970s, Dr. Alan Scott sought to selectively weaken eye muscles to treat strabismus (when one or both eyes are misaligned) without surgery. After failed attempts with other agents, Scott developed a method to stabilize the bacteria that causes botulism, culminating in a drug that eventually became known as Botox.
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The Invention of the Modern Dog
- Breed and Blood in Victorian Britain (Animals, History, Culture)
- By: Michael Worboys, Julie-Marie Strange, Neil Pemberton
- Narrated by: Keith McCarthy
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Invention of the Modern Dog, Michael Worboys, Julie-Marie Strange, and Neil Pemberton explore when, where, why, and how Victorians invented the modern way of ordering and breeding dogs. Though talk of "breed" was common before this period in the context of livestock, the modern idea of a dog breed defined in terms of shape, size, coat, and color arose during the Victorian period in response to a burgeoning competitive dog show culture.
By: Michael Worboys, and others
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The Great Influenza
- The True Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Young Readers Edition)
- By: John M. Barry
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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At the height of World War I, history’s most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease.
By: John M. Barry
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Subjected to Science
- Human Experimentation in America before the Second World War
- By: Susan E. Lederer
- Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Long before the U.S. government began conducting secret radiation and germ-warfare experiments, and long before the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, medical professionals had introduced—and hotly debated the ethics of—the use of human subjects in medical experiments. In Subjected to Science, Susan Lederer provides the first full-length history of biomedical research with human subjects in the earlier period, from 1890 to 1940.
By: Susan E. Lederer
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A Body Made of Glass
- A History of Hypochondria
- By: Caroline Crampton
- Narrated by: Caroline Crampton
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Drawing on Crampton’s own experience of surviving a life-threatening disease only to find herself beset by almost constant anxiety about her health, A Body Made of Glass explores part of the landscape of illness that most memoirs don’t reach: the territory beyond survival or cure, where body and mind seem locked in a strange and exhausting kind of dance. The result is both a fascinating cultural history of hypochondria and a moving account of what it means to live with this invisible, elusive and increasingly widespread condition.
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amazing writing, fascinating topic
- By C. T. Piercy on 23-05-24
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Slouch
- Posture Panic in Modern America
- By: Beth Linker
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
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In 1995, a scandal erupted when the New York Times revealed that the Smithsonian possessed a century’s worth of nude “posture” photos of college students. In this riveting history, Beth Linker tells why these photos were only a small part of the incredible story of twentieth-century America’s largely forgotten posture panic—a decades-long episode in which it was widely accepted as scientific fact that Americans were suffering from an epidemic of bad posture, with potentially catastrophic health consequences.
By: Beth Linker
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How to Be Healthy
- An Ancient Guide to Wellness (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
- By: Galen, Katherine D. Van Schaik - translator commentator
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson, Cindy Kay
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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The second-century Greek physician Galen—the most famous doctor in antiquity after Hippocrates—is a central figure in Western medicine. A talented doctor, surgeon, writer, philosopher, teacher, pharmacologist, and inventor, Galen attended the court of Marcus Aurelius, living through outbreaks of plague that devastated the Roman Empire. He also served as a physician for professional gladiators. In writings that provided the foundation of Western medicine up to the nineteenth century, Galen created a unified account of health and disease.
By: Galen, and others