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Japan's Infamous Unit 731
- Firsthand Accounts of Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program
- By: Hal Gold, Yuma Totani - foreword
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
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Some of the cruelest deeds of Japan's war in Asia did not occur on the battlefield, but in quiet, antiseptic medical wards in obscure parts of China. Far from front lines and prying eyes, Japanese doctors and their assistants subjected human guinea pigs to gruesome medical experiments....
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Miserable Truth
- By Ben on 28-07-2022
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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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Stunning
- By Frank Paul on 29-05-2022
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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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Really great book!
- By Jamie Allan on 18-10-2018
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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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A down to earth, thought provoking discussion
- By Michael on 09-06-2016
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Japan's Infamous Unit 731
- Firsthand Accounts of Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program
- By: Hal Gold, Yuma Totani - foreword
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Some of the cruelest deeds of Japan's war in Asia did not occur on the battlefield, but in quiet, antiseptic medical wards in obscure parts of China. Far from front lines and prying eyes, Japanese doctors and their assistants subjected human guinea pigs to gruesome medical experiments....
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Miserable Truth
- By Ben on 28-07-2022
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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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Stunning
- By Frank Paul on 29-05-2022
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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
- Unabridged
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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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Really great book!
- By Jamie Allan on 18-10-2018
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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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A down to earth, thought provoking discussion
- By Michael on 09-06-2016
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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
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A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman Empire....
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History backed by evidence
- By merlin on 24-02-2021
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When the Air Hits Your Brain
- Tales from Neurosurgery
- By: Frank T Vertosick Jr. MD
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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With poignant insight and humor, Frank Vertosick, Jr., MD, describes some of the greatest challenges of his career, including a six-week-old infant with a tumor in her brain and more....
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Interesting
- By Elizabeth McDonagh on 09-09-2021
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Dementia Reimagined
- Building a Life of Joy and Dignity from Beginning to End
- By: Tia Powell
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr, Tia Powell
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
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The cultural and medical history of dementia and Alzheimer's disease by a leading psychiatrist and bioethicist who urges us to turn our focus from cure to care....
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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 its first publication 20 years ago, And The Band Played On was quickly recognized as a masterpiece of investigatve reporting....
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Should be mandatory reading for all
- By Rachel on 29-08-2016
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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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Loved This Book! Everyone should read or listen to
- By Anonymous User on 20-05-2021
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The Black Death: New Lessons from Recent Research
- By: Dorsey Armstrong, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Dorsey Armstrong
- Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
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In The Black Death: New Lessons from Recent Research, celebrated medievalist Dorsey Armstrong shares the fascinating new story of this old pandemic....
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Brilliant
- By Paul on 09-08-2022
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The Empress and the English Doctor
- By: Lucy Ward
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
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A killer virus, an all-powerful empress, an encounter cloaked in secrecy...this is the astonishing true story of Enlightenment ideals, female leadership and the fight to promote science over superstition....
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The Butchering Art
- Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
- By: Lindsey Fitzharris
- Narrated by: Sam Woolf
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
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Historian Lindsey Fitzharris re-creates a critical turning point in the history of medicine, when Joseph Lister transformed surgery from a brutal, harrowing practice to a safe, vaunted profession....
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Loved it
- By Miss Amy V on 14-11-2017
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The Facemaker
- One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
- By: Lindsey Fitzharris
- Narrated by: Daniel Gillies
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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Award-winning historian Lindsey Fitzharris tells the true story of the pioneering plastic surgeon Harold Gillies, who dedicated himself to restoring the faces of a brutalised generation....
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Great listening
- By Anonymous User on 12-06-2022
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Unwell Women
- A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World
- By: Elinor Cleghorn
- Narrated by: Hanako Footman
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
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In this ground-breaking history Elinor Cleghorn unpacks the roots of the perpetual misunderstanding, mystification and misdiagnosis of women's bodies, illness and pain....
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Cognitive dissonance spoils a good book
- By Reader on 15-08-2021
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The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine
- By: Thomas Morris
- Narrated by: Rupert Farley, Thomas Morris
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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Blending fascinating history with lacerating wit, The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth will take you on a tour of some of the funniest, strangest and most wince-inducing corners of medical history....
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Enjoyable
- By Amazon Customer on 05-05-2019
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Anzac Girls
- The Extraordinary Story of Our World War I Nurses
- By: Peter Rees
- Narrated by: Anna McGahan
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
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The harrowing, dramatic and profoundly moving story of the Australian and New Zealand nurses who served in the Great War....
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Brilliant.
- By Georgie on 01-07-2016
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Bellevue
- Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital
- By: David Oshinsky
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
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David Oshinsky chronicles the history of America's oldest hospital and in so doing also charts the rise of New York to the nation's preeminent city, the path of American medicine....
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The Great Influenza
- The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
- By: John M. Barry
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
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At the height of WWI, 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....
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Important message to learn from the past
- By Peggy on 06-03-2022
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Dr. Mary's Monkey
- How the Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey Viruses Are Linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, the JFK Assassination, and Emerging Global Epidemics
- By: Edward T. Haslam
- Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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The 1964 murder of a nationally known cancer researcher sets the stage for this gripping exposé of medical professionals enmeshed in covert government operations....
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Worth the wait.
- By Karen on 30-11-2021
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Recovery
- The Lost Art of Convalescence
- By: Gavin Francis
- Narrated by: Gavin Francis
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
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When it comes to illness, sometimes the end is just the beginning. Recovery and convalescence are words that exist at the periphery of our lives - until we are forced to contend with what they really mean....
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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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Excellent
- By Amazon listener on 15-10-2019
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Cook County ICU
- 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases
- By: Cory Franklin MD
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
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Author Cory Franklin, MD, who headed the hospital's intensive care unit from the 1970s through the 1990s, shares his most unique and bizarre experiences....
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Great medical stories
- By Benjamin on 18-02-2017
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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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meh
- By chris on 22-07-2019
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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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A Must-Read for Everyone
- By Amazon Customer on 14-04-2021
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Shrinks
- The Untold Story of Psychiatry
- By: Jeffrey A Lieberman, Ogi Ogas
- Narrated by: Graham Corrigan
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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A world-renowned psychiatrist reveals the fascinating story of psychiatry's origins, demise, and redemption....
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informative
- By Anonymous User on 25-06-2020
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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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Fantastic and I’m not a big true crime fan
- By Rob on 15-05-2022
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Ravenous
- Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection
- By: Sam Apple
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
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The extraordinary story of the Nazi-era scientific genius who discovered how cancer cells eat - and what it means for how we should....
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Asperger's Children
- The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
- By: Edith Sheffer
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, aiming to treat those children he deemed capable of participating fully in society. Depicted as a compassionate researcher, Asperger was in fact deeply influenced by Nazi psychiatry....
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Nazism and Psychiatry a fascinating Insight
- By zico on 20-07-2019