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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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From the chaos of a psychiatric ER to the bowels of a maximum security prison, the stories range from bizarre to poignant and the people from noble to callous. Bedlam's Door depicts the challenges mental illness poses for patients, families, and health-care professionals and offers hope for the future. Like the case histories in The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks, it shows that though every person's story is unique, we are all more alike than different and are linked by our shared human experience.
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Bedlam's Door
- True Tales of Madness and Hope
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 22-11-16
- Language: English
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Virus Hunt
- The Search for the Origin of HIV
- By: Dorothy H. Crawford
- Narrated by: Alice Gilmour
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
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The hunt for the origin of the AIDS virus began over 20 years ago. It was a journey that went around the world and involved painstaking research to unravel how, when, and where the virus first infected humans. Dorothy H. Crawford traces the story back to the remote rain forests of Africa - home to the primates that carry the ancestral virus - and reveals how HIV-1 first jumped from chimpanzees to humans in rural southeast Cameroon. Examining how this happened, and how it then travelled back to Colonial west central Africa where it eventually exploded as a pandemic, she asks why and how it was able to spread so widely.
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Virus Hunt
- The Search for the Origin of HIV
- Narrated by: Alice Gilmour
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 12-05-14
- Language: English
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Notes on Nursing
- By: Florence Nightingale
- Narrated by: Nadia May
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
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Notes on Nursing is a classic by Florence Nightingale (the first modern nurse). Florence Nightingale's methods were revolutionary in her time, and they form the basis for the techniques of patient management that have been taught ever since. Notes on Nursing is a great overview, in her own words, of Florence Nightingale's ideas on care, cleanliness, and the nursing process in general. Her directives are widely applicable today. First published in 1860, Notes on Nursing served as the cornerstone of the curriculum at the Nightingale School and other nursing schools established.
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Essential reading whether you're a nurse or not
- By J. E. on 24-10-17
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Notes on Nursing
- Narrated by: Nadia May
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 01-09-11
- Language: English
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Shapeshifters
- On Medicine & Human Change
- By: Gavin Francis
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
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To be alive is to be in perpetual change: growing, healing, learning, aging. In Shapeshifters, award-winning writer and doctor Gavin Francis considers the transformations in mind and body that continue across the arc of human life. Some of these changes we have little choice about. We can't avoid puberty, the menopause, or our hair turning grey. Others may be welcome milestones along our path - a much-wanted pregnancy, a cancer cured, or a long-awaited transition to another gender.
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outstanding... unique in flow and prespective
- By Ghazi on 09-08-18
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Shapeshifters
- On Medicine & Human Change
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 03-05-18
- Language: English
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The Cancer Problem
- Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain
- By: Agnes Arnold-Forster
- Narrated by: Cat Gould
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
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The Cancer Problem offers the first medical, cultural, and social history of cancer in 19th-century Britain. It argues that it was in the 19th century that cancer acquired the unique emotional, symbolic, and politicized status it maintains today. Through an interrogation of the construction, deployment, and emotional consequences of the disease's incurability, this book reframes our conceptualization of the relationship between medicine and modern life and reshapes our understanding of chronic and incurable maladies, both past and present.
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The Cancer Problem
- Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain
- Narrated by: Cat Gould
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 23-03-21
- Language: English
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Medicine in Translation
- Journeys with My Patients
- By: Danielle Ofri
- Narrated by: Beth Richmond
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
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For two decades, Dr. Danielle Ofri has cared for patients at Bellevue, the oldest public hospital in the country and a crossroads for the world's cultures. In Medicine in Translation she introduces us, in vivid, moving portraits, to her patients, who have braved language barriers, religious and racial divides, and the emotional and practical difficulties of exile in order to access quality health care.
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I like this book
- By Suraya on 23-12-12
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Medicine in Translation
- Journeys with My Patients
- Narrated by: Beth Richmond
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 13-02-12
- Language: English
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Inside the Orphan Drug Revolution
- The Promise of Patient-Centered Biotechnology
- By: James A. Geraghty
- Narrated by: Scott Wallace
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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Jim Geraghty has been a passionate participant in the orphan drug revolution since its inception―a leader in the field as a strategy consultant, biotechnology executive, and venture entrepreneur. His book is in part a history, with eyewitness accounts of advances as they occurred and portraits of the pioneering scientists and physicians, tireless activists, and visionary business leaders who made the revolution happen. And it tells deeply personal stories of patients and parents willing to risk untried new therapies.
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Inside the Orphan Drug Revolution
- The Promise of Patient-Centered Biotechnology
- Narrated by: Scott Wallace
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 02-05-23
- Language: English
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The Making of Modern Medicine
- By: Andrew Cunningham
- Narrated by: Andrew Cunningham
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
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This major new Radio 4 series charts the development of Western medicine and healing, from the ancient Greeks to the pioneering organ transplant operations of the 20th century and beyond.
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Good but not great
- By Tom on 01-11-07
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The Making of Modern Medicine
- Narrated by: Andrew Cunningham
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 11-04-07
- Language: English
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Pandemics
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Christian W. McMillen
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
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Christian W. McMillen provides a concise yet comprehensive account of pandemics throughout human history, illustrating how pandemic disease has shaped history and, at the same time, social behavior has influenced pandemic disease.
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Pandemics
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 02-02-21
- Language: English
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Shyness
- How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness
- By: Christopher Lane
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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In the 1970s, a small group of leading psychiatrists met behind closed doors and literally rewrote the book on their profession. Revising and greatly expanding the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM for short), they turned what had been a thin, spiral-bound handbook into a hefty tome. Almost overnight the number of diagnoses exploded. The result was a windfall for the pharmaceutical industry and a massive conflict of interest for psychiatry at large.
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Shyness
- How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 01-10-12
- 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. With powerful insight and on-the-ground reporting, Tom Mueller introduces an unforgettable cast of characters.
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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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The Doctors' Plague
- Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis
- By: Sherwin B. Nuland
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
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Ignác Semmelweis is remembered for the now-commonplace notion that doctors must wash their hands before examining patients. In mid-19th century Vienna, however, this was a subversive idea. With deaths from childbed fever exploding, Semmelweis discovered that doctors themselves were spreading the disease. While his simple reforms worked immediately - childbed fever in Vienna all but disappeared - they brought down upon Semmelweis the wrath of the establishment, and led to his tragic end.
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The worst narration I have ever come across.
- By Caroline on 13-06-21
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The Doctors' Plague
- Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 30-06-20
- Language: English
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The Lobotomist
- A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness
- By: Jack El-Hai
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
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The Lobotomist explores one of the darkest chapters of American medicine: the desperate attempt to treat the hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients in need of help during the middle decades of the 20th century. Into this crisis stepped Walter Freeman, MD, who saw a solution in lobotomy, a brain operation intended to reduce the severity of psychotic symptoms. Drawing on Freeman's documents and interviews with Freeman's family, Jack El-Hai takes a penetrating look at the life and work of this complex scientific genius.
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Far too long
- By Sadie on 22-03-22
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The Lobotomist
- A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 16-03-21
- Language: English
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And If I Perish
- Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II
- By: Evelyn M. Monahan, Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 21 hrs and 56 mins
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In World War II, 59,000 women voluntarily risked their lives for their country as US Army nurses. For more than half a century these women's experiences remained untold, almost without reference in books, historical societies, or military archives. After years of research and hundreds of hours of interviews, Evelyn M. Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee have created a dramatic narrative that at last brings to light the critical role that women played throughout the war.
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I wish I could make this prescribed reading
- By ESRN on 04-09-21
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And If I Perish
- Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 21 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 24-03-20
- Language: English
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Asleep
- The Forgotten Epidemic That Became Medicine’s Greatest Mystery
- By: Molly Caldwell Crosby
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
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A fascinating look at a bizarre, forgotten epidemic from the national best-selling author of The American Plague. In 1918, a world war raged, and a lethal strain of influenza circled the globe. In the midst of all this death, a bizarre disease appeared in Europe. Eventually known as encephalitis lethargica, or sleeping sickness, it spread worldwide, leaving millions dead or locked in institutions. Then, in 1927, it disappeared as suddenly as it arrived.
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disappointing
- By S Het on 14-08-17
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Asleep
- The Forgotten Epidemic That Became Medicine’s Greatest Mystery
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 04-04-13
- Language: English
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Bloody Lies
- A CSI Scandal in the Heartland (Black Squirrel Booksy)
- By: John Ferak
- Narrated by: Rich Grimshaw
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
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The remote farming community of Murdock, Nebraska, seemed to be the least likely setting for one of the heartland's most ruthless and bloody double murders in decades. In fact, the little town had gone more than a century without a single homicide. But on the night of Easter 2006, Wayne and Sharmon Stock were brutally murdered in their home. The murders garnered sensational front page headlines and drew immediate statewide attention. Practically everybody around Murdock was filled with fear, panic, and outrage. Who killed Wayne and Sharmon Stock? What was the motive?
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Scary to read this stuff is still happening
- By jeffrey on 17-09-17
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Bloody Lies
- A CSI Scandal in the Heartland (Black Squirrel Booksy)
- Narrated by: Rich Grimshaw
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 22-07-15
- Language: English
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The Excellent Doctor Blackwell
- The Life of the First Woman Physician
- By: Julia Boyd
- Narrated by: Corrie James
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
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When British-born Elizabeth Blackwell earned her medical degree in America in 1849, there was an international outcry. Few at the time would have disagreed with the actress Fanny Kemble's remark - "What, trust a woman doctor - never!"
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Elizabeth Blackwell Doctor
- By Amazon Customer on 15-02-23
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The Excellent Doctor Blackwell
- The Life of the First Woman Physician
- Narrated by: Corrie James
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 25-01-22
- Language: English
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The World's Emergency Room
- The Growing Threat to Doctors, Nurses, and Humanitarian Workers
- By: Michael VanRooyen
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
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Twenty years ago the most common cause of death for medical humanitarians and other aid workers was traffic accidents; today it is violent attacks. And the death of each doctor, nurse, paramedic, midwife, and vaccinator is multiplied untold times in the vulnerable populations deprived of their care. In a 2005 report, the ICRC found that for every soldier killed in the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, more than 60 civilians died due to loss of immunizations and other basic health services.
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The World's Emergency Room
- The Growing Threat to Doctors, Nurses, and Humanitarian Workers
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 19-07-16
- Language: English
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Maladies of Empire
- How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
- By: Jim Downs
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
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Most stories of medical progress come with ready-made heroes. John Snow traced the origins of London's 1854 cholera outbreak to a water pump, leading to the birth of epidemiology. Florence Nightingale's contributions to the care of soldiers in the Crimean War transformed hospitals from crucibles of infection to sanctuaries of recuperation. Yet histories of individual innovators ignore many key sources of medical knowledge.
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Maladies of Empire
- How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 10-05-22
- Language: English
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Germs, Genes, & Civilization: How Epidemics Shaped Who We Are Today
- By: David P. Clark
- Narrated by: Summer McStravick
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
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Again and again, microbes have shaped our health, our genetics, our history, our culture, our politics, even our religion and ethics. This book reveals much that scientists and cultural historians have learned about the pervasive interconnections between infectious microbes and humans. It also considers what our ongoing fundamental relationship with infectious microbes might mean for the future of the human species.
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Great content, shame about the voice...
- By Steven on 14-01-13
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Germs, Genes, & Civilization: How Epidemics Shaped Who We Are Today
- Narrated by: Summer McStravick
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 09-12-11
- Language: English
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