American Industry

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    • Patient Safety and the Middle-Managing of American Medicine
    • By: Robert L. Wears, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Still Not Safe is the story of the rise of the patient - safety movement - and how an "epidemic" of medical errors was derived from a reality that didn't support such a characterization....

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    • Jonathan Letterman, the Civil War Doctor Who Pioneered Battlefield Care
    • By: Scott McGaugh
    • Narrated by: Kyle Munley
    • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The first full-length biography of the Civil War surgeon who, over the course of the war’s bloodiest battles - from Antietam to Gettysburg - redefined military medicine....

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    • How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy
    • By: Katherine M. Gehl, Michael E. Porter
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 21-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • In The Politics Industry, Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter ingeniously apply the tools of business analysis - and Porter's distinctive Five Forces framework - to show how the political system functions just as every other competitive industry does....

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    • What We Need to Talk About When We Talk About Health
    • By: Sandro Galea
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 18-09-19
    • Language: English
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    • Americans spend more money on health than people anywhere else in the world. And what do they get for it? Statistically, not much. Americans today live shorter, less healthy lives than citizens of other rich countries, and these trends show no signs of letting up....

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    • Herbal and Non-Herbal Treatments
    • By: Herbert C. Covey
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 29-11-22
    • Language: English
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    • African American Slave Medicine offers a critical examination of how African American slaves' medical needs were addressed during the years before and surrounding the Civil War....

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    • How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
    • By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 24-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Narrating the story of a sea-change in housing policy and its dire impact on African Americans, Race for Profit reveals how the urban core was transformed into a new frontier of cynical extraction....

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    • The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans
    • By: Jane Marie
    • Narrated by: Jane Marie
    • Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to expose the scourge of multilevel marketing schemes and how they have profited off the evisceration of the American working class.

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    • How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature
    • By: Dan Sinykin
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 25-06-24
    • Language: English
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    • Dan Sinykin explores how changes in the publishing industry have affected fiction, literary form, and what it means to be an author.

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    • Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia
    • By: Elizabeth Catte
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 20-04-21
    • Language: English
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    • Between 1927 and 1979, more than 8,000 people were involuntarily sterilized in five hospitals across the state of Virginia. From this plain and terrible fact springs Elizabeth Catte's Pure America, a sweeping, unsparing history of eugenics in Virginia....

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    • Inside the Battle to Bring Down the Opioid Industry
    • By: Scott Higham, Sari Horwitz
    • Narrated by: Kiff VandenHeuvel
    • Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • The definitive investigation and exposé of how some of the nation's largest corporations created and fueled the opioid crisis....

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    • An Empire of Deceit and the Origins of America’s Opioid Epidemic
    • By: Barry Meier
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 29-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Equal parts crime thriller, medical detective story and business exposé, Pain Killer is the origin story of the opioid crisis, a hard-hitting look at how a supposed wonder drug became the trigger for a national tragedy....

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    • A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
    • By: Anne Fadiman
    • Narrated by: Pamela Xiong
    • Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 18-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion....

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    • The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
    • By: Kevin Hazzard
    • Narrated by: Gilbert Glenn Brown
    • Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 20-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the world....

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    • Why Lies Matter to the Race Grievance Industry
    • By: Taleeb Starkes
    • Narrated by: Taleeb Starkes
    • Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 16-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Year after year a seemingly unshakable reality of violence plagues Black communities nationwide....

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    • A New Prescription for Innovative and Affordable Medicines
    • By: Peter Kolchinsky
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Developing life-changing drugs is risky and expensive, but that’s not what makes them unaffordable. Drug pricing is a staple of every news cycle and political debate....

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    • Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
    • By: Deirdre Cooper Owens
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Medical Bondage moves between southern plantations and northern urban centers to reveal how 19th-century American ideas about race, health, and status influenced doctor-patient relationships in sites of healing like slave cabins, medical colleges, and hospitals....

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