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Vital Organs
- By: Suzie Edge
- Narrated by: Suzie Edge
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
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A journey through history's most famous limbs, organs, and appendages, from TikTok medical historian Dr Suzie Edge....
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Loved it
- By lucylocket on 29-09-23
By: Suzie Edge
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The Moth in the Iron Lung
- A Biography of Polio
- By: Forrest Maready
- Narrated by: Forrest Maready
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
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A fascinating account of the world’s most famous disease - polio - told as you have never heard it before. Epidemics of paralysis began to rage in the early 1900s, seemingly out of nowhere....
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Fascinating account of the famous disease
- By Toby on 15-09-20
By: Forrest Maready
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Grief Works
- Stories of Life, Death and Surviving
- By: Julia Samuel
- Narrated by: Julia Samuel
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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Grief Works is a compassionate guide that will inform and engage anyone who is grieving and provide clear advice for those seeking to comfort the bereaved....
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Very helpful.
- By Elene Marsden on 05-04-17
By: Julia Samuel
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- By: Thomas S. Kuhn
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is essential listening for understanding the history, philosophy, and evolution of science....
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Essential reading for thoughtful people
- By Isolde on 04-09-12
By: Thomas S. Kuhn
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The Truth About Covid-19
- Exposing the Great Reset, Lockdowns, Vaccine Passports, and the New Normal
- By: Dr. Joseph Mercola, Ronnie Cummins
- Narrated by: Nolan Chase
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Since early 2020, the world has experienced a series of catastrophic events - a global pandemic caused by a so-called novel coronavirus; international lockdowns and border closings causing widespread business closures, economic collapse, and massive unemployment....
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If This is Right, Then Fear The Future
- By S. Morris on 22-05-21
By: Dr. Joseph Mercola, and others
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In Search of Madness
- A Psychiatrist's Travels Through the History of Mental Illness
- By: Brendan Kelly
- Narrated by: Ciaran O'Brien
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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In Search of Madness is an exploration of society's changing attitudes towards and attempts to deal with its mentally ill, from the author of The Science of Happiness....
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Show me where the Neuroscientist touched you.
- By Paul on 25-09-22
By: Brendan Kelly
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Vital Organs
- By: Suzie Edge
- Narrated by: Suzie Edge
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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A journey through history's most famous limbs, organs, and appendages, from TikTok medical historian Dr Suzie Edge....
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Loved it
- By lucylocket on 29-09-23
By: Suzie Edge
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The Moth in the Iron Lung
- A Biography of Polio
- By: Forrest Maready
- Narrated by: Forrest Maready
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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A fascinating account of the world’s most famous disease - polio - told as you have never heard it before. Epidemics of paralysis began to rage in the early 1900s, seemingly out of nowhere....
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Fascinating account of the famous disease
- By Toby on 15-09-20
By: Forrest Maready
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Grief Works
- Stories of Life, Death and Surviving
- By: Julia Samuel
- Narrated by: Julia Samuel
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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Grief Works is a compassionate guide that will inform and engage anyone who is grieving and provide clear advice for those seeking to comfort the bereaved....
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Very helpful.
- By Elene Marsden on 05-04-17
By: Julia Samuel
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- By: Thomas S. Kuhn
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is essential listening for understanding the history, philosophy, and evolution of science....
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Essential reading for thoughtful people
- By Isolde on 04-09-12
By: Thomas S. Kuhn
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The Truth About Covid-19
- Exposing the Great Reset, Lockdowns, Vaccine Passports, and the New Normal
- By: Dr. Joseph Mercola, Ronnie Cummins
- Narrated by: Nolan Chase
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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Since early 2020, the world has experienced a series of catastrophic events - a global pandemic caused by a so-called novel coronavirus; international lockdowns and border closings causing widespread business closures, economic collapse, and massive unemployment....
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If This is Right, Then Fear The Future
- By S. Morris on 22-05-21
By: Dr. Joseph Mercola, and others
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In Search of Madness
- A Psychiatrist's Travels Through the History of Mental Illness
- By: Brendan Kelly
- Narrated by: Ciaran O'Brien
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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In Search of Madness is an exploration of society's changing attitudes towards and attempts to deal with its mentally ill, from the author of The Science of Happiness....
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Show me where the Neuroscientist touched you.
- By Paul on 25-09-22
By: Brendan Kelly
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This Won't Hurt
- How Medicine Fails Women
- By: Marieke Bigg
- Narrated by: Daphne Kouma
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
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Dr Marieke Bigg explores the past, present and future of the sexism inherent in medicine and medical research—and how to change it....
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interesting.
- By Roxana on 21-04-23
By: Marieke Bigg
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Ten Drugs
- How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
- By: Thomas Hager
- Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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Beginning with opium, the “joy plant,” which has been used for 10,000 years, Thomas Hager tells a captivating story of medicine. His subjects include the largely forgotten female pioneer who introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain, the infamous knockout drops, and much more....
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Fascinating!
- By Amazon Customer on 22-07-20
By: Thomas Hager
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Vaccines, Autoimmunity, and the Changing Nature of Childhood Illness
- By: Thomas Cowan MD
- Narrated by: Madison Niederhauser
- Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
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Over the past 50 years, rates of autoimmunity and chronic disease have exploded. In this provocative book, Dr. Thomas Cowan argues for a direct causal relationship to a corresponding increase in the number of vaccines American children typically receive....
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No germs necessary
- By Tim M. on 19-10-21
By: Thomas Cowan MD
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Milk of Paradise
- A History of Opium
- By: Lucy Inglis
- Narrated by: Colleen Prendergast
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
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Poppy tears, opium, heroin, fentanyl: humankind has been in thrall to the ‘Milk of Paradise’ for millennia. The latex of papaver somniferum is a bringer of sleep, of pleasurable lethargy, of relief from pain - and hugely addictive....
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Listen to the Silk Roads by Frankopan instead!
- By Aurifex on 19-09-18
By: Lucy Inglis
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Deep Medicine
- How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
- By: Eric Topol
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
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One of America's top doctors reveals how AI will empower physicians and revolutionize patient care....
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Some interesting ideas
- By Nicos on 28-06-19
By: Eric Topol
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Pox Romana
- The Plague That Shook the Roman World
- By: Colin Elliott
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
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This audiobook gives a dramatic account of the Antonine plague, the mysterious disease that struck the Roman Empire at its pinnacle....
By: Colin Elliott
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Still Not Safe
- 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
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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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A must read for all QI Cultists
- By MJ on 01-12-21
By: Robert L. Wears, and others
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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
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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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A bot too flowery for me.
- By Mark on 02-03-24
By: John Kelly
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And the Band Played On
- Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
- By: Randy Shilts
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 31 hrs and 44 mins
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Upon it's first publication 20 years ago, And The Band Played On was quickly recognized as a masterpiece of investigatve reporting....
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A real time capsule
- By Jim on 17-06-14
By: Randy Shilts
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Stiff
- The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
- By: Mary Roach
- Narrated by: Shelly Frasier
- Length: 8 hrs
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An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem....
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This is so cool!
- By Ian on 13-03-16
By: Mary Roach
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Pandemics & Medical Breakthroughs Collection
- Notes on Nursing, The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918, The Germ Theory and Its Applications to Medicine and Surgery, & Recovery from the Passage of an Iron Bar Through the Head
- By: Florence Nightingale, Oscar Jewell Harvey, Louis Pasteur, and others
- Narrated by: Museum Audiobooks cast
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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Pandemics have afflicted human civilizations throughout history, yet these health crises have also led to progress in medicine and society that improved people’s lives....
By: Florence Nightingale, and others
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The Oldest Cure in the World
- Adventures in the Art and Science of Fasting
- By: Steve Hendricks
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
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A journalist takes listeners into the science and history of intermittent fasting, an ancient practice in the middle of a red-hot resurgence, exploring the body's power to heal itself....
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fast-inating (sorry)
- By Kindle Customer on 02-12-23
By: Steve Hendricks
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Blood and Guts
- A History of Surgery
- By: Richard Hollingham
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making limb transplants, face transplants, and a host of other previously undreamed-of operations possible. But getting here has not been a simple story of medical progress....
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Interesting
- By Starskey on 06-01-23
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Breath from Salt
- A Deadly Genetic Disease, a New Era in Science, and the Patients and Families Who Changed Medicine Forever
- By: Bijal P. Trivedi
- Narrated by: Deepti Gupta
- Length: 20 hrs and 35 mins
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Cystic fibrosis was once a mysterious disease that killed infants and children. Now it could be the key to healing millions with genetic diseases of every type - from Alzheimer's and Parkinson's to diabetes and sickle cell anemia....
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Recommended by Bill Gates
- By Laly37 on 25-04-21
By: Bijal P. Trivedi
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ShadowMan
- An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling
- By: Ron Franscell
- Narrated by: Patty Nieman, Chris Berger
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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ShadowMan is the pulse-pounding account of the first time in history that the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit created a psychological profile to catch a serial killer....
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Interesting
- By Lee on 20-01-24
By: Ron Franscell
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The Curious History of the Heart
- A Cultural and Scientific Journey
- By: Vincent M. Figueredo
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
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For much of recorded history, people considered the heart to be the most important organ in the body. In cultures around the world, the heart—not the brain—was believed to be the location of intelligence, memory, emotion, and the soul....
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Between Hope and Fear
- A History of Vaccines and Human Immunity
- By: Michael Kinch
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins
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While detailing the history of vaccine invention, Michael Kinch reveals the ominous reality that our victories against vaccine-preventable diseases are not permanent - and could easily be undone....
By: Michael Kinch
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Direct Red
- By: Gabriel Weston
- Narrated by: Claire Wille
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
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How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands? What is it like to cut into someone else's body....
By: Gabriel Weston
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Mad in America
- Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
- By: Robert Whitaker
- Narrated by: Chris Kayser
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
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Schizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the world’s poorest countries....
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Food for thought
- By Jamie on 08-06-22
By: Robert Whitaker
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The Song of the Cell
- An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
- By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrated by: Abhishek Sharma
- Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene, The Song of The Cell is the third book in this extraordinary writer's exploration of what it means to be human....
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Dreams from My Mother
- By: Dame Elizabeth Anionwu
- Narrated by: Dame Elizabeth Anionwu
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
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Dreams from My Mother is an inspiring story about childhood, race, identity, family, friendship, hope and what makes us who we are. Ultimately, it is an incredibly moving story of a mother and a daughter separated by society, but united in the dreams they shared for her future....
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A beautiful read & what an amazing lady.
- By Anonymous User on 24-01-24
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The Urge
- Our History of Addiction
- By: Carl Erik Fisher
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
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As a psychiatrist in training fresh from medical school, Carl Erik Fisher found himself face-to-face with an addiction crisis that nearly cost him everything.
By: Carl Erik Fisher
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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
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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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Interesting at times, but terribly tedious
- By Alex on 09-11-23
By: Kyle Harper
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The Invention of the Modern Dog
- Breed and Blood in Victorian Britain (Animals, History, Culture)
- By: Michael Worboys, Julie-Marie Strange, Neil Pemberton
- Narrated by: Keith McCarthy
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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In The Invention of the Modern Dog, Michael Worboys, Julie-Marie Strange, and Neil Pemberton explore when, where, why, and how Victorians invented the modern way of ordering and breeding dogs.
By: Michael Worboys, and others
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Haematomyelia from Gunshot Wounds of the Spine
- A Report of Two Cases, with Recovery Following Symptoms of Hemilesion of the Cord.
- By: Harvey Cushing MD
- Narrated by: Edison McDaniels
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
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Listen to history's first ever account of a gunshot wound to the spine.
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Death to Beauty
- The Transformative History of Botox
- By: Eugene M. Helveston
- Narrated by: Kyle Snyder
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In the 1970s, Dr. Alan Scott sought to selectively weaken eye muscles to treat strabismus (when one or both eyes are misaligned) without surgery. After failed attempts with other agents, Scott developed a method to stabilize the bacteria that causes botulism, culminating in a drug that eventually became known as Botox.
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The Invention of the Modern Dog
- Breed and Blood in Victorian Britain (Animals, History, Culture)
- By: Michael Worboys, Julie-Marie Strange, Neil Pemberton
- Narrated by: Keith McCarthy
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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In The Invention of the Modern Dog, Michael Worboys, Julie-Marie Strange, and Neil Pemberton explore when, where, why, and how Victorians invented the modern way of ordering and breeding dogs. Though talk of "breed" was common before this period in the context of livestock, the modern idea of a dog breed defined in terms of shape, size, coat, and color arose during the Victorian period in response to a burgeoning competitive dog show culture.
By: Michael Worboys, and others
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The Great Influenza
- The True Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Young Readers Edition)
- By: John M. Barry
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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At the height of World War I, history’s most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease.
By: John M. Barry
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Subjected to Science
- Human Experimentation in America before the Second World War
- By: Susan E. Lederer
- Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
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Long before the U.S. government began conducting secret radiation and germ-warfare experiments, and long before the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, medical professionals had introduced—and hotly debated the ethics of—the use of human subjects in medical experiments. In Subjected to Science, Susan Lederer provides the first full-length history of biomedical research with human subjects in the earlier period, from 1890 to 1940.
By: Susan E. Lederer
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A Body Made of Glass
- A History of Hypochondria
- By: Caroline Crampton
- Narrated by: Caroline Crampton
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
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Drawing on Crampton’s own experience of surviving a life-threatening disease only to find herself beset by almost constant anxiety about her health, A Body Made of Glass explores part of the landscape of illness that most memoirs don’t reach: the territory beyond survival or cure, where body and mind seem locked in a strange and exhausting kind of dance. The result is both a fascinating cultural history of hypochondria and a moving account of what it means to live with this invisible, elusive and increasingly widespread condition.
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Haematomyelia from Gunshot Wounds of the Spine
- A Report of Two Cases, with Recovery Following Symptoms of Hemilesion of the Cord.
- By: Harvey Cushing MD
- Narrated by: Edison McDaniels
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
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Listen to history's first ever account of a gunshot wound to the spine.
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Death to Beauty
- The Transformative History of Botox
- By: Eugene M. Helveston
- Narrated by: Kyle Snyder
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In the 1970s, Dr. Alan Scott sought to selectively weaken eye muscles to treat strabismus (when one or both eyes are misaligned) without surgery. After failed attempts with other agents, Scott developed a method to stabilize the bacteria that causes botulism, culminating in a drug that eventually became known as Botox.
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The Invention of the Modern Dog
- Breed and Blood in Victorian Britain (Animals, History, Culture)
- By: Michael Worboys, Julie-Marie Strange, Neil Pemberton
- Narrated by: Keith McCarthy
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Invention of the Modern Dog, Michael Worboys, Julie-Marie Strange, and Neil Pemberton explore when, where, why, and how Victorians invented the modern way of ordering and breeding dogs. Though talk of "breed" was common before this period in the context of livestock, the modern idea of a dog breed defined in terms of shape, size, coat, and color arose during the Victorian period in response to a burgeoning competitive dog show culture.
By: Michael Worboys, and others
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The Great Influenza
- The True Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Young Readers Edition)
- By: John M. Barry
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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At the height of World War I, history’s most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease.
By: John M. Barry
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Subjected to Science
- Human Experimentation in America before the Second World War
- By: Susan E. Lederer
- Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
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Long before the U.S. government began conducting secret radiation and germ-warfare experiments, and long before the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, medical professionals had introduced—and hotly debated the ethics of—the use of human subjects in medical experiments. In Subjected to Science, Susan Lederer provides the first full-length history of biomedical research with human subjects in the earlier period, from 1890 to 1940.
By: Susan E. Lederer
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A Body Made of Glass
- A History of Hypochondria
- By: Caroline Crampton
- Narrated by: Caroline Crampton
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
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Drawing on Crampton’s own experience of surviving a life-threatening disease only to find herself beset by almost constant anxiety about her health, A Body Made of Glass explores part of the landscape of illness that most memoirs don’t reach: the territory beyond survival or cure, where body and mind seem locked in a strange and exhausting kind of dance. The result is both a fascinating cultural history of hypochondria and a moving account of what it means to live with this invisible, elusive and increasingly widespread condition.
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Slouch
- Posture Panic in Modern America
- By: Beth Linker
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
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In 1995, a scandal erupted when the New York Times revealed that the Smithsonian possessed a century’s worth of nude “posture” photos of college students. In this riveting history, Beth Linker tells why these photos were only a small part of the incredible story of twentieth-century America’s largely forgotten posture panic—a decades-long episode in which it was widely accepted as scientific fact that Americans were suffering from an epidemic of bad posture, with potentially catastrophic health consequences.
By: Beth Linker
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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.
By: Galen, and others
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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.
By: Mark Jackson
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Bad Therapy
- Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
- By: Abigail Shrier
- Narrated by: Abigail Shrier
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous generations. Youth suicide rates are climbing, antidepressant prescriptions for children are common, and the proliferation of mental health diagnoses has not stopped the trend. What has gone wrong with our youth? In Bad Therapy, bestselling investigative journalist Abigail Shrier argues that the problem isn't the kids - it's the mental health experts.
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The road to hell is paved with good intentions
- By MR A PATTERSON on 28-02-24
By: Abigail Shrier
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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
- Unabridged
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The plague that devastated Asia and Europe in the 14th century has been of never-ending interest to both scholars and the general public. Many books on the plague rely on statistics to tell the story. In The Great Mortality, author John Kelly lends an air of immediacy and intimacy to his telling of the journey of the plague as it traveled from the steppes of Russia, across Europe, and into England, killing 75 million people—one third of the known population—before it vanished.
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A bot too flowery for me.
- By Mark on 02-03-24
By: John Kelly
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Insulin
- A Hundred-Year History
- By: Stuart Bradwel
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Bradwel reminds us that the centenary of this apparent "wonder drug" should be no cause for celebration. Insulin often remains inaccessible to those who need it most: elusive prescriptions, uneven availability and sky-high prices result in rationing and desperate do-it-yourself research and development. In the face of bootstraps rhetoric and "Pharma Bro" capitalists, patients across the world are left to fend for themselves. There is a long way to go in the twenty-first century until insulin truly fulfills the extraordinary promises made by its discovery.
By: Stuart Bradwel
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Invisible Voices
- The Silencing of Black Women in Healthcare
- By: Daniel K. Osei
- Narrated by: Eric Willmott
- Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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It is time for individuals, communities, and healthcare institutions to take action and prioritize the voices and needs of black women in healthcare. By amplifying their voices, promoting diversity in clinical trials, advocating for policy changes, and empowering black women through education, we can work towards a more equitable and inclusive healthcare system.
By: Daniel K. Osei
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The Curious History of the Heart
- A Cultural and Scientific Journey
- By: Vincent M. Figueredo
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
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For much of recorded history, people considered the heart to be the most important organ in the body. In cultures around the world, the heart—not the brain—was believed to be the location of intelligence, memory, emotion, and the soul. Over time, views on the purpose of the heart have transformed. Modern medicine and science dismissed what was once the king of the organs as a mere blood pump subservient to the brain, yet the heart remains a potent symbol of love and health and an important part of our cultural iconography.
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Policing Pregnant Bodies
- From Ancient Greece to Post-Roe America
- By: Kathleen M. Crowther
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
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On June 24, 2022, the US Supreme Court overturned the Roe v. Wade decision, asserting that the Constitution did not confer the right to abortion. This ruling, in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health case, was the culmination of a half-century of pro-life activism promoting the idea that fetuses are people and therefore entitled to the rights and protections that the Constitution guarantees. But it was also the product of a much longer history of archaic ideas about the relationship between pregnant people and the fetuses they carry.
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Pox Romana
- The Plague That Shook the Roman World
- By: Colin Elliott
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
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In the middle of the second century AD, Rome was at its prosperous and powerful apex. The emperor Marcus Aurelius reigned over a vast territory that stretched from Britain to Egypt. The Roman-made peace, or Pax Romana, seemed to be permanent. Then, apparently out of nowhere, a sudden sickness struck the legions and laid waste to cities, including Rome itself. This fast-spreading disease, known now as the Antonine plague, may have been history’s first pandemic. Soon after its arrival, the Empire began its downward trajectory toward decline and fall.
By: Colin Elliott
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The Autumn Ghost
- How the Battle Against a Polio Epidemic Revolutionized Modern Medical Care
- By: Hannah Wunsch
- Narrated by: Emily Durante
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
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Intensive care units and mechanical ventilation are the crucial foundation of modern medical care: without them, the appalling death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic would be even higher. In The Autumn Ghost, Dr. Hannah Wunsch traces the origins of these two innovations back to a polio epidemic in the autumn of 1952. Drawing together testimony from doctors, nurses, medical students, and patients, Wunsch relates a gripping tale of an epidemic that changed the world.
By: Hannah Wunsch
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Frozen Voices
- A Speech Therapist's Alaskan Memoir
- By: Kit Roberts Johnson
- Narrated by: Kit Roberts Johnson
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
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Don't take speech for granted. Kit Roberts Johnson knows what it is like to have a frozen voice. She knows what it is like for others to have their voices silenced, like children with Down Syndrome, or adults with stuttering. She became a speech therapist to help people with communication disorders and discovered over the span of her career that we have all been silenced in some way.