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  • The Great Mortality cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 20-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • 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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    • Viruses, Plagues, and History

    • Past, Present, and Future
    • By: Michael B. A. Oldstone
    • Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
    • Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 13-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings

    • The story of viruses and humanity is a story of fear and ignorance, of grief and heartbreak, and of great bravery and sacrifice. Michael Oldstone tells all these stories as he illuminates the history of the devastating diseases that have tormented humanity....

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  • The Black Death: New Lessons from Recent Research cover art

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    • I Do Not Consent

    • My Fight Against Medical Cancel Culture
    • By: Simone Gold MD JD
    • Narrated by: Torii Alaniz
    • Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • Was New York Governor Cuomo’s executive order sending COVID-hospitalized patients back to nursing homes to infect other vulnerable nursing home patients ‘following the science’? Listen to find out more....

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    • The Fate of Rome

    • Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire
    • By: Kyle Harper
    • Narrated by: Andrew Garman
    • Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 27-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman Empire....

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    • Overcoming the COVID Darkness

    • How Two Doctors Successfully Treated 7000 Patients
    • By: Brian Tyson MD, George Fareed MD
    • Narrated by: Kevin Quinn
    • Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • Overcoming the Darkness of COVID is about two doctors who used a treatment protocol early in the pandemic and early in treatment, when the conventional wisdom issued was not to provide any treatment to patients and send them home....

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    • Duty of Care

    • One Doctor’s Story of the COVID-19 Crisis
    • By: Dr Dominic Pimenta
    • Narrated by: Dr Dominic Pimenta
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings

    • The first book to tell the full story of the COVID-19 pandemic, from an NHS doctor working inside hospitals to save lives and combat the virus on the front line....

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    • A Nurse's Story

    • My Life in A&E During the Covid Crisis
    • By: Louise Curtis, Sarah Johnson
    • Narrated by: Louise Curtis
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings

    • Working in A&E is a challenging job, but nurse Louise Curtis loves it. She was newly qualified as an advanced clinical practitioner, responsible for life or death decisions about the patients she saw, when the unthinkable happened and the country was hit by the Covid-19 pandemic....

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    • Discover Magazine's Vital Signs

    • True Tales of Medical Mysteries, Obscure Diseases, and Life-Saving Diagnoses
    • By: Dr. Robert A. Norman
    • Narrated by: Mark Moseley
    • Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 107 ratings
    • Now, physician and "Vital Signs" editor Robert Norman has compiled the very best of the series into an intriguing and suspenseful collection for fans and new listeners alike....

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    • The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl

    • How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis
    • By: Arthur Allen
    • Narrated by: Dennis Holland
    • Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 28-07-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • From a laboratory in wartime Poland comes a fascinating story of anti-Nazi resistance and scientific ingenuity....

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    • Deadly Outbreaks

    • How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened by Killer Pandemics, Exotic Viruses, and Drug-Resistant Parasites
    • By: Alexandra Levitt
    • Narrated by: Julie McKay
    • Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • Take a visit to the frontline as scientists fight to solve medical mysteries....

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  • Plagues, Pandemics and Viruses cover art

    • Plagues, Pandemics and Viruses

    • From the Plague of Athens to COVID-19
    • By: Heather E. Quinlan
    • Narrated by: Samara Naeymi
    • Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings

    • It can come in waves - like tidal waves. It changes societies. It disrupts life. It ends lives. As far back as 3000 B.C.E. (the Bronze Age), plagues have stricken mankind. COVID-19 is just the latest example....

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    • The Price of Panic

    • How the Tyranny of Experts Turned a Pandemic into a Catastrophe
    • By: Douglas Axe, Jay W. Richards, William M. Briggs
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 13-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings

    • For the first time in history, the world shut itself down - by choice - all for fear of a virus, COVID-19, that wasn’t well understood. The government, with the support of most Americans, ordered the closure of tens of thousands of small businesses - many never to return....

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    • Plagues upon the Earth

    • Disease and the Course of Human History
    • By: Kyle Harper
    • Narrated by: Tim Fannon
    • Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 15-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 22 ratings

    • Plagues upon the Earth tells the story of how pathogenic microbes have been an intimate part of human history from the beginning - and how our deadliest germs and biggest pandemics are the product of our success as a species....

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    • Patient Zero

    • A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
    • By: Lydia Kang MD, Nate Pedersen
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 15-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings

    • From the masters of storytelling-meets-science, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks—how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them before they destroy us....

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    • On Epidemics

    • Spiritual Perspectives
    • By: Rudolf Steiner
    • Narrated by: Dale Brunsvold
    • Length: 1 hr and 56 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • Based on brief, pithy quotations from Rudolf Steiner's collected works, the "spiritual perspectives" in this volume present core concepts on the subject of epidemics....

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    • Fevered Planet

    • How Diseases Emerge When We Harm Nature
    • By: John Vidal
    • Narrated by: John Sackville
    • Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 22-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • Fevered Planet exposes how the way we farm, what we eat, the places we travel to and the scientific experiments we conduct create the perfect conditions for deadly new diseases to emerge and spread faster and further than ever....

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    • Jonas Salk

    • A Life
    • By: Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 20 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The authoritative account of one of the 20th century's most important - and controversial - scientists....

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    • Phantom Plague

    • How Tuberculosis Shaped History
    • By: Vidya Krishnan
    • Narrated by: Sneha Mathan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • The definitive social history of tuberculosis, from its origins as a haunting mystery to its modern reemergence that now threatens populations around the world....

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