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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
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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.
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How to Be Healthy
- An Ancient Guide to Wellness (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson, Cindy Kay
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 19-03-24
- Language: English
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The Eleventh Plague
- Jews and Pandemics from the Bible to COVID-19
- By: Jeremy Brown
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 16 hrs and 46 mins
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Plagues, pandemics, and infectious diseases have shaped the history of the Jewish people. Of course, there were the ten biblical plagues that famously smote the Egyptians—from the rain of frogs to the deaths of the firstborn—but that is just the start of the story. In The Eleventh Plague, Brown investigates the relation between Judaism and infectious diseases throughout the ages, from premodern and early-modern plagues, to rabbinic responses to smallpox and cholera, and to the curious practice of "Black Weddings" in which two orphans are married in a cemetery.
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The Eleventh Plague
- Jews and Pandemics from the Bible to COVID-19
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 16 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 11-07-23
- Language: English
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Damnation Island
- Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
- By: Stacy Horn
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
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Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell's Island. There, over the next hundred years, the city would build a lunatic asylum, prison, hospital, workhouse, and almshouse. Stacy Horn has crafted a compelling and chilling narrative told through the stories of the poor souls sent to Blackwell's, as well as the period's city officials, reformers, and journalists (including the famous Nellie Bly). Damnation Island re-creates what daily life was like on the island....
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Really good but narration is off
- By PHILIP HARTY on 23-01-19
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Damnation Island
- Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 15-05-18
- Language: English
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Flesh Made New
- The Unnatural History and Broken Promise of Stem Cells
- By: John Rasko, Carl Power
- Narrated by: John Rasko
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
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This book is an antidote to hype and a salve to soothe the itch for stem-cell salvation. In it, Professor John Rasko, a leading physician-scientist, and writer-historian Carl Power take us on a wild historical tour of this scandal-prone field.
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Flesh Made New
- The Unnatural History and Broken Promise of Stem Cells
- Narrated by: John Rasko
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 13-04-22
- Language: English
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Nightcrawlers
- Exposure collection
- By: Rosecrans Baldwin
- Narrated by: Rosecrans Baldwin
- Length: 53 mins
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It’s a Darien, Connecticut, tradition: an emergency medical service managed by adolescents. One kid is a varsity soccer captain. There’s a future doctor, a band dork, a theater geek. Theirs is a view of town without the niceties. A drunken spouse turned violent. Lonely old people stuck in the bath. A midlife suicide. How do these kids process the sometimes shocking and violent life-and-death secrets of their community? The answer is a story of high stress and uncommon high school lives, told by a writer who spent his own youth on the night shift. Welcome to Post 53.
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Nightcrawlers
- Exposure collection
- Narrated by: Rosecrans Baldwin
- Series: Exposure Collection
- Length: 53 mins
- Release date: 30-05-19
- Language: English
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Unlocking the Ancient Secrets to Healing
- By: Gail Lynn
- Narrated by: Gail Lynn, Christi Bowen, Adam Lofbomm
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
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Part memoir, part illuminating treatise on why science is looking to the past for the future of medicine, Unlocking the Ancient Secrets to Healing chronicles the personal tribulations and professional discoveries behind the remarkable realization of Gail Lynn’s dream.
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A Transformative Journey Unveiled
- By Frasser B. on 24-11-23
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Unlocking the Ancient Secrets to Healing
- Narrated by: Gail Lynn, Christi Bowen, Adam Lofbomm
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 12-01-23
- Language: English
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The One Thing We've Never Spoken About
- Exposing Our Untold Mental Health Crisis
- By: Elfy Scott
- Narrated by: Elfy Scott
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
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Over the past two decades, we have started talking more about common mental health conditions like depression and anxiety. But complex conditions like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and psychosis have been left behind, as have many of the people who live with these conditions or who care for them. Part memoir, part deep-dive investigation, The One Thing We've Never Spoken About is filled with rage at how our nation's public discourse, emergency services and healthcare systems continue to fail so many people.
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important and well written work
- By Anonymous User on 06-07-24
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The One Thing We've Never Spoken About
- Exposing Our Untold Mental Health Crisis
- Narrated by: Elfy Scott
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 15-03-23
- Language: English
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Necropolis
- Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom
- By: Kathryn Olivarius
- Narrated by: Janet Metzger
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
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Antebellum New Orleans sat at the heart of America's slave and cotton kingdoms. It was also where yellow fever epidemics killed as many as 150,000 people during the nineteenth century. With little understanding of mosquito-borne viruses, a person's only protection against the scourge was to "get acclimated" by surviving the disease. Repeated epidemics bolstered New Orleans's strict racial hierarchy by introducing another hierarchy, what Kathryn Olivarius terms "immunocapital." Whereas immunity conferred privilege on whites, it relegated enslaved people to the most grueling labor.
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Necropolis
- Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom
- Narrated by: Janet Metzger
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 27-09-22
- Language: English
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Mother of Methadone
- A Doctor's Quest, a Forgotten History, and a Modern-Day Crisis
- By: Melody Glenn
- Length: 6 hrs
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Dr. Melody Glenn didn’t expect to find herself working with addiction patients when she started out in medicine. Like most physicians she’s encountered, she harbored a set of conscious and unconscious beliefs about addicts—she even sometimes resented them. Once she realized how effective harm reduction treatments like methadone could be, she set out to discover why these treatments weren’t used more broadly. This led her to Dr. Marie Nyswander.
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Mother of Methadone
- A Doctor's Quest, a Forgotten History, and a Modern-Day Crisis
- Length: 6 hrs
- Release date: 22-07-25
- Language: English
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Los renglones torcidos de la ciencia [The Crooked Lines of Science]
- By: Eugenio Manuel Fernández
- Narrated by: Aram Delhom
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
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A partir de pequeñas historias de la ciencia más básica, mediante anécdotas e indagando en la vida personal de los científicos implicados en los diversos descubrimientos que condujeron al PET (la tomografía de emisión de positrones), este libro relata cómo se llegó al diseño y la puesta en marcha de esta máquina, actualmente usada en medicina para el diagnóstico y el seguimiento del cáncer, así como otras enfermedades.
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Los renglones torcidos de la ciencia [The Crooked Lines of Science]
- Narrated by: Aram Delhom
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 24-10-24
- Language: Spanish
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The History of Medicine
- By: Mark Jackson
- Narrated by: Tom Alexander
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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As scientists confidently look forward to average life expectancies hitting 100+ years in some Western societies, it’s easy to forget how precarious our grasp on good health has been. It is a struggle no better demonstrated than by the myriad and extraordinary measures that humans have gone to – as diverse as animal sacrifice to stem cell transplants – in their quest to stave off death and disease. Acclaimed historian Mark Jackson takes a fresh global view of mankind’s great battle, exploring both Western and Eastern traditions.
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The History of Medicine
- Narrated by: Tom Alexander
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 01-03-24
- Language: English
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Out Cold
- A Chilling Descent into the Macabre, Controversial, Lifesaving History of Hypothermia
- By: Phil Jaekl
- Narrated by: Matt Kugler
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
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In Out Cold, science writer Phil Jaekl chronicles the underappreciated story of human innovation with cold, from Ancient Egypt, where it was used to treat skin irritations, to 18th-century London, where scientists used it in their first explorations of suspended animation. Throughout history, physicians have used cold to innovate life extension, enable distant space missions, and explore consciousness.
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Out Cold
- A Chilling Descent into the Macabre, Controversial, Lifesaving History of Hypothermia
- Narrated by: Matt Kugler
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 01-06-21
- Language: English
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The Perfect Tonic
- The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits and Cocktails
- By: Camper English
- Narrated by: Joanna Carpenter
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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Alcohol and medicine have an inextricably intertwined history, with innovations in each altering the path of the other. The story stretches back to the ancient world, when beer and wine were used to provide nutrition, hydration and act as solvents for healing botanicals. Over time, alchemists distilled elixirs designed to cure all diseases, monastic apothecaries developed mystical botanical liqueurs, travelling physicians concocted dubious intoxicating nostrums and the drinks we’re familiar with today began to take form.
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The Perfect Tonic
- The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits and Cocktails
- Narrated by: Joanna Carpenter
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 19-07-22
- Language: English
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The End of Genetics
- Designing Humanity's DNA
- By: David B. Goldstein
- Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
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Since 2010, it has been possible to determine a person's genetic makeup in a matter of days at an accessible cost for many millions of people. Along with this technological breakthrough there has emerged a movement to use this information to help prospective parents "eliminate preventable genetic disease". As the prospect of systematically excluding the appearance of unwanted mutations in our children comes within reach, David B. Goldstein examines the possible consequences from these types of choices.
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The End of Genetics
- Designing Humanity's DNA
- Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 04-01-22
- Language: English
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A People's History of Science
- Miners, Midwives, and "Low Mechanicks"
- By: Clifford D. Conner
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 17 hrs and 35 mins
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We all know the history of science that we learned from grade school textbooks: how Galileo used his telescope to show that the earth was not the center of the universe; how Newton divined gravity from the falling apple; how Einstein unlocked the mysteries of time and space with a simple equation. This history is made up of long periods of ignorance and confusion, punctuated once an age by a brilliant thinker who puts it all together. These few tower over the ordinary masses, and in the traditional account, it is to them that we owe science in its entirety. This belief is wrong.
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Women do not exist in this book!
- By C.J. de Jong on 26-02-23
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A People's History of Science
- Miners, Midwives, and "Low Mechanicks"
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 17 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 19-01-21
- Language: English
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The Great Pretender
- The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness
- By: Susannah Cahalan
- Narrated by: Christie Moreau, Susannah Cahalan
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
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For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness - how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you even know what it is? In search of an answer, in the 1970s a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan and seven other people - sane, normal, well-adjusted members of society - went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatry's labels. Rosenhan's watershed study broke open the field of psychiatry, closing down institutions and changing mental health diagnosis forever.
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The Great Pretender
- The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness
- Narrated by: Christie Moreau, Susannah Cahalan
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 05-11-19
- Language: English
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Medical Writing Business
- Gain the Freedom and Flexibility You Crave Without Compromising Your Income
- By: Erica Ansbrow
- Narrated by: Sherrice Williams
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
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If you want to make a living by transitioning into the medical writing field as a freelancer or by working a job, then this book is for you. It doesn’t matter if you have previous experience working in the medical field or not, as this field has a vast array of opportunities.
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Medical Writing Business
- Gain the Freedom and Flexibility You Crave Without Compromising Your Income
- Narrated by: Sherrice Williams
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
- Release date: 06-07-23
- Language: English
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A Good Time to Be Born
- How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future
- By: Perri Klass
- Narrated by: Randye Kaye
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
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The steady beating back of infant and child mortality is one of our greatest human achievements. Interweaving her own experiences as a medical student and doctor, Perri Klass pays tribute to groundbreaking women doctors like Rebecca Lee Crumpler, Mary Putnam Jacobi, and Josephine Baker, and to the nurses, public health advocates, and scientists who brought new approaches and scientific ideas about sanitation and vaccination to families.
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A Good Time to Be Born
- How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future
- Narrated by: Randye Kaye
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 08-12-20
- Language: English
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The Worst of Evils
- The Fight Against Pain
- By: Thomas Dormandy
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 20 hrs and 38 mins
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This riveting audiobook takes the listener around the globe and through the centuries to discover how different cultures have sought to combat and treat physical pain. With colorful stories and sometimes frightening anecdotes, Dr. Thomas Dormandy describes a checkered progression of breakthroughs, haphazard experiments, ignorant attitudes, and surprising developments in human efforts to control pain.
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The Worst of Evils
- The Fight Against Pain
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 20 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 15-03-13
- Language: English
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Chasing the Intact Mind
- How the Severely Autistic and Intellectually Disabled Were Excluded from the Debates That Affect Them Most
- By: Amy S.F. Lutz
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
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In Chasing the Intact Mind, Lutz traces the history of the intact mind concept, explaining how it influences current policy and practice affecting those with autism.
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Chasing the Intact Mind
- How the Severely Autistic and Intellectually Disabled Were Excluded from the Debates That Affect Them Most
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 21-11-23
- Language: English
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