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Pox
- An American History
- By: Michael Willrich
- Narrated by: K. Todd Freeman
- Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
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At the turn of the last century, a smallpox epidemic swept the United States. The age-old disease spread swiftly through an increasingly interconnected American landscape: from southern plantations to the immigrant neighborhoods of northern cities to far-flung villages on the edges of the American empire. In Pox, historian Michael Willrich offers a gripping chronicle of how the nation's continent-wide fight against smallpox launched one of the most important civil liberties struggles of the 20th century.
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Pox
- An American History
- Narrated by: K. Todd Freeman
- Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 01-04-11
- Language: English
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The Malaria Project
- The U.S. Government's Secret Mission to Find a Miracle Cure
- By: Karen M. Masterson
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 16 hrs and 39 mins
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Karen M. Masterson, a journalist turned malaria researcher, uncovers the complete story behind this dark tale of science, medicine and war. Illuminating, riveting and surprising, The Malaria Project captures the ethical perils of seeking treatments for disease while ignoring the human condition.
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The Malaria Project
- The U.S. Government's Secret Mission to Find a Miracle Cure
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 16 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 07-10-14
- Language: English
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The Professor of Secrets
- Mystery, Medicine, and Alchemy in Renaissance Italy
- By: William Eamon
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
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this exciting story illuminates the captivating world of the late Renaissance - in this case its plagues, remedies, and alchemy - through the life of Leonardo Fioravanti, a brilliant, remarkably forward-thinking, and utterly unconventional doctor. Fioravanti's marvelous cures and talent for self-aggrandizement earned him the adoration of the people, the scorn of the medical establishment, and a reputation as one of the age's most colorful, combative figures.
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The Professor of Secrets
- Mystery, Medicine, and Alchemy in Renaissance Italy
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 31-12-10
- Language: English
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The Pandemic Century
- One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris
- By: Mark Honigsbaum
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
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Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet despite a century of medical progress, viral and bacterial disasters continue to take us by surprise, inciting panic and dominating news cycles. From the Spanish flu to the 1924 outbreak of pneumonic plague in Los Angeles to the 1930 "parrot fever" pandemic, through the more recent SARS, Ebola, and Zika epidemics, the last one hundred years have been marked by a succession of unanticipated pandemic alarms.
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The Pandemic Century
- One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 09-04-19
- Language: English
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For the Benefit of Those Who See
- Dispatches from the World of the Blind
- By: Rosemary Mahoney
- Narrated by: Rosemary Mahoney
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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Rosemary Mahoney tells the story of Braille Without Borders, the first school for the blind in Tibet, and of Sabriye Tenberken, the remarkable blind woman who founded the school. Fascinated and impressed by what she learned from the blind children of Tibet, Mahoney was moved to investigate further the cultural history of blindness. As part of her research, she spent three months teaching at Tenberken's international training center for blind adults in Kerala, India, an experience that reveals both the shocking oppression endured by the world's blind, as well as their great resilience.
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For the Benefit of Those Who See
- Dispatches from the World of the Blind
- Narrated by: Rosemary Mahoney
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 14-01-14
- Language: English
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Accidental Kindness
- A Doctor's Notes on Empathy
- By: Michael Stein
- Narrated by: Alan Carlson
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
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Drawing on his work as a primary care physician and a behavioral scientist, Michael Stein artfully examines the often conflicting goals of patients and their doctors. In those differences, Stein recognizes that kindness should not be a patient's forbidden or unrealistic expectation. This book leaves us with new knowledge of and insights into what we might hope for, and what might go wrong, or right, in the most intimate clinical moments.
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Accidental Kindness
- A Doctor's Notes on Empathy
- Narrated by: Alan Carlson
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 04-11-22
- Language: English
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Desastre [Doom]
- Historia y política de las catástrofes [The Politics of Catastrophe]
- By: Niall Ferguson, Efrén del Valle Peñamil - translator, María Serrano Giménez - translator
- Narrated by: Edson Matus
- Length: 17 hrs and 15 mins
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Una historia de las catástrofes deslumbrante, original y repleta de ideas para el futuro que pone en perspectiva el ya conocido como annus horribilis.
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Desastre [Doom]
- Historia y política de las catástrofes [The Politics of Catastrophe]
- Narrated by: Edson Matus
- Length: 17 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 04-05-23
- Language: Spanish
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Un antropólogo en Marte
- Siete relatos paradójicos
- By: Oliver Sacks
- Narrated by: Luis García Márquez
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
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Considerado uno de los grandes escritores clínicos del siglo, Oliver Sacks nos presenta en su último libro siete casos neurológicos que constituyen una profunda reflexión sobre la esencia de la identidad y los mecanismos del conocimiento. Un pintor que tras un accidente de coche deja de ver el color; un cirujano cuyos continuos tics y compulsiones sólo remiten cuando opera o pilota su aeroplano; un hombre que tras toda una vida de ceguera recupera la vista sólo para darse cuenta de que no sabe ver.
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Un antropólogo en Marte
- Siete relatos paradójicos
- Narrated by: Luis García Márquez
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 18-01-23
- Language: Spanish
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Clara Barton, Professional Angel
- By: Elizabeth Brown Pryor
- Narrated by: Sheri Leigh Horn
- Length: 19 hrs and 29 mins
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Widely known today as the "Angel of the Battlefield", Clara Barton's personal life has always been shrouded in mystery. In Clara Barton, Professional Angel, Elizabeth Brown Pryor presents a biography of Barton that strips away the heroic exterior and reveals a complex and often trying woman. Based on the papers Clara Barton carefully saved over her lifetime, this biography is the first one to draw on these recorded thoughts. Not always altruistic, her accomplishments were nonetheless extraordinary.
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Thorough & interesting
- By Valerie Kennett on 12-02-21
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Clara Barton, Professional Angel
- Narrated by: Sheri Leigh Horn
- Length: 19 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 30-04-20
- Language: English
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Mes carnets de pandémie [My Pandemic Diaries]
- By: Dr. François Marquis
- Narrated by: Olivier Beauchemin
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
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Le docteur François Marquis, intensiviste bien connu du public, raconte son expérience de la pandémie. Écrit au « je », son livre nous plonge au coeur du quotidien dans l’unité des soins intensifs d’un hôpital universitaire, avec ses victoires, ses défaites, ses erreurs et ses bons coups. Ce récit d’une grande humilité, à la fois franc et nuancé, nous permet de mieux mesurer les enjeux de société soulevés par l’épreuve que nous traversons collectivement depuis plus d’un an.
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Mes carnets de pandémie [My Pandemic Diaries]
- Narrated by: Olivier Beauchemin
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 13-10-22
- Language: French
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Plagues and Their Aftermath
- How Societies Recover from Pandemics
- By: Brian Michael Jenkins
- Narrated by: Will Tulin
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
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From a plague in Athens during the Peloponnesian War in 430 BCE, to another in 540 that wiped out half the population of the Roman empire, down through the Black Death in the Middle Ages and on through the 1918 flu epidemic (which killed between 50 and 100 million people) and this century's deadly SARS outbreak, plagues have been a much more relentless fact of life than many realize. The legacy of epidemics, Brian Michael Jenkins observes, is not only one of lives lost but of devastated economies and social disorder, all of which have severe political repercussions.
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Plagues and Their Aftermath
- How Societies Recover from Pandemics
- Narrated by: Will Tulin
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 20-09-22
- Language: English
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Progress Notes: One Year in the Future of Medicine
- By: Abraham M. Nussbaum
- Narrated by: Kirk Winkler
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
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Progress Notes follows the evolution of medical education and is a must-listen for premedical students, medical students, and medical professionals seeking insight into the changing landscape of their field as well as for listeners captivated by medical dramas and the pursuit of transformative care that benefits us all.
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Progress Notes: One Year in the Future of Medicine
- Narrated by: Kirk Winkler
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 24-09-24
- Language: English
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How to Make a Killing
- Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine
- By: Tom Mueller
- Narrated by: Melissa Kay Benson
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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Six decades ago, visionary doctors achieved the impossible: the humble kidney, acknowledged since ancient times to be as essential to life as the heart, became the first human organ to be successfully replaced with a machine. Yet huge dialysis corporations, ambitious doctor-entrepreneurs, and Beltway lobbyists soon turned this medical miracle into an early experiment in for-profit medicine—and one of the nation's worst healthcare catastrophes.
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How to Make a Killing
- Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine
- Narrated by: Melissa Kay Benson
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 24-10-23
- Language: English
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Maneater
- And Other True Stories of a Life in Infectious Diseases
- By: Pamela Nagami M.D.
- Narrated by: Donna Rawlings
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
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Maneater is a personal account by a specialist who approaches her work like a forensic scientist or a case-hardened private eye. Dr. Pamela Nagami is a leading authority on infectious diseases and her stories will shock, amaze, and warn listeners.The patients in Maneater are ordinary Americans. When Danielle Jordan innocently ordered a salad for lunch in Puerta Vallarta she had no idea she had just become the "host" to an organism that six years later would grow into a worm and burrow into her brain.
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On the short side.
- By Fichops on 29-08-19
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Maneater
- And Other True Stories of a Life in Infectious Diseases
- Narrated by: Donna Rawlings
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 05-01-12
- Language: English
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The Contagion of Liberty
- The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution
- By: Andrew M. Wehrman
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
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The Revolutionary War broke out during a smallpox epidemic, and in response, General George Washington ordered the inoculation of the Continental Army. But Washington did not have to convince fearful colonists to protect themselves against smallpox. In The Contagion of Liberty, Andrew M. Wehrman describes a revolution within a revolution, where the violent insistence for freedom from disease ultimately helped American colonists achieve independence from Great Britain.
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The Contagion of Liberty
- The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 27-12-22
- 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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The Future of Work in Healthcare
- Navigating Remote Work, Flexibility, and the Gig Economy
- By: Thomas Huber
- Narrated by: Erik Sellin
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
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In an era marked by swift technological advancements and evolving societal needs, "The Future of Work in Healthcare" offers an enlightening journey through the transformative landscape of the medical profession. From the dawn of digital consultations to the rise of part-time and freelance roles, the healthcare sector stands at the crossroads of tradition and innovation.
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The Future of Work in Healthcare
- Navigating Remote Work, Flexibility, and the Gig Economy
- Narrated by: Erik Sellin
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 28-08-24
- Language: English
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Imagining Progress
- Science, Faith, and Child Mortality in America
- By: Kristin Johnson
- Narrated by: Susan Hanfield
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
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Humankind has always wrestled with the existence of suffering. For two centuries, many American ministers, physicians, and scientists believed that an omnipotent and omniscient God created the world such that people might relieve suffering through ingenuity and learning. Others responded to the new worldview introduced by the scientific revolution as a threat to the divine order. In Imagining Progress, Kristin Johnson traces the history of Americans' evolving relationship with science and religion at "one of its most dramatic places"—the bedsides of dying children.
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Imagining Progress
- Science, Faith, and Child Mortality in America
- Narrated by: Susan Hanfield
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 30-07-24
- Language: English
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Habit Forming
- Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914
- By: Elizabeth Kelly Gray
- Narrated by: Kitty Hendrix
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
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Habitual drug use in the United States is at least as old as the nation itself. Habit Forming traces the history of unregulated drug use and dependency before 1914, when the Harrison Narcotic Tax Act limited sales of opiates and cocaine under US law. Many Americans used opiates and other drugs medically and became addicted. Some tried Hasheesh Candy, injected morphine, or visited opium dens, but neither use nor addiction was linked to crime, due to the dearth of restrictive laws. After the Civil War, American presses published extensively about domestic addiction.
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Habit Forming
- Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914
- Narrated by: Kitty Hendrix
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 28-02-23
- Language: English
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Cartas a un joven médico [Letters to a Young Doctor]
- By: Federico Ortiz Quezada
- Narrated by: Hernán Espinoza
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
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Las cartas literarias han sido un medio privilegiado para que los sabios de diversas disciplinas transmitan sus conocimientos a los jóvenes, ansiosos o inseguros por iniciarse en su profesión. A través de 28 cartas, el doctor Ortiz Quezada se manifiesta por una medicina con vocación humanista, al tiempo que reflexiona sobre el sentido último de esta profesión, sobre la naturaleza del sufrimiento y sobre la condición pluridimensional del ser humano. Asimismo, hace una severa crítica de los principales vicios de la medicina moderna.
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Cartas a un joven médico [Letters to a Young Doctor]
- Narrated by: Hernán Espinoza
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 04-08-22
- Language: Spanish
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