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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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A must read
- By Anonymous User on 16-05-2024
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Bad Therapy
- Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
- Narrated by: Abigail Shrier
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 27-02-2024
- Language: English
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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, including the deadly Chicago heatwave of 1995, treating the first AIDS patients in the country before the disease was diagnosed, the nurse with rare Munchausen syndrome, the only surviving ricin victim, and the professor with Alzheimer's hiding the effects of the wrong medication.
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Great medical stories
- By Benjamin on 18-02-2017
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Cook County ICU
- 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 22-03-2016
- Language: English
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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. Psychiatry has come a long way since the days of chaining "lunatics" in cold cells and parading them as freakish marvels before a gaping public. But as Jeffrey Lieberman reveals in his extraordinary and eye-opening book, the path to legitimacy for "the black sheep of medicine" has been anything but smooth.
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A story wonderfully told
- By Juan Velastegui on 30-07-2023
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Shrinks
- The Untold Story of Psychiatry
- Narrated by: Graham Corrigan
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 12-03-2015
- Language: English
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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, a young man struck down in his prime by paraplegia, and a minister with a .22-caliber bullet lodged in his skull. Told through intimate portraits of Vertosick's patients and unsparing-yet-fascinatingly detailed descriptions of surgical procedures, When the Air Hits Your Brain illuminates both the mysteries of the mind and the realities of the operating room.
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Interesting
- By Elizabeth McDonagh on 09-09-2021
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When the Air Hits Your Brain
- Tales from Neurosurgery
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 06-09-2016
- Language: English
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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. From the 'wandering womb' of ancient Greece to today's shifting understanding of hormones, menstruation and menopause, Unwell Women is the revolutionary story of women who have suffered, challenged and rewritten medical misogyny. Drawing on Elinor's own experience as an unwell woman, this is a powerful and timely exposé of the medical world and woman's place within it.
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Cognitive dissonance spoils a good book
- By Reader on 15-08-2021
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Unwell Women
- A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World
- Narrated by: Hanako Footman
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 10-06-2021
- Language: English
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Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic
- By: Richard A. McKay
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
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In Patient Zero, Richard A. McKay presents a carefully documented and sensitively written account of the life of Gaetan Dugas, a gay man whose skin cancer diagnosis in 1980 took on very different meanings as the HIV/AIDS epidemic developed - and who received widespread posthumous infamy when he was incorrectly identified as patient zero of the North American outbreak.
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Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 15-11-2017
- Language: English
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Miracles We Have Seen
- America's Leading Physicians Share Stories They Can't Forget
- By: Harley Rotbart
- Narrated by: Angela Brazil, Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
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This is a book of miracles - medical events witnessed by leading physicians for which there is no reasonable medical explanation, or, if there is, the explanation itself is extraordinary. These dramatic first-person essays detail spectacular serendipities, impossible cures, breathtaking resuscitations, extraordinary awakenings, and recovery from unimaginable disasters. Miracles We Have Seen is a book of inspiration and optimism, and a compelling glimpse into the lives of physicians.
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Yes. I love hearing about miracles!
- By M. Watson on 30-09-2017
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Miracles We Have Seen
- America's Leading Physicians Share Stories They Can't Forget
- Narrated by: Angela Brazil, Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 13-09-2016
- Language: English
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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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A Body Made of Glass
- A History of Hypochondria
- Narrated by: Caroline Crampton
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 11-04-2024
- Language: English
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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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In 1918, the world faced the deadliest pandemic in human history. What can the story of the so-called Spanish Flu teach us about the fight against present day crises and how to prepare for future outbreaks? 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. It killed more people in 24 months than AIDS killed in 24 years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century.
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Important message to learn from the past
- By Peggy on 06-03-2022
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The Great Influenza
- The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 27-08-2020
- Language: English
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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
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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, focusing mostly on the most famous viruses. For this revised edition, Oldstone includes discussions of new viruses like SARS, bird flu, virally caused cancers, chronic wasting disease, and West Nile. Viruses, Plagues, and History paints a sweeping portrait of humanity's long-standing conflict with our unseen viral enemies.
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Could have been much better
- By Mars on 30-04-2020
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Viruses, Plagues, and History
- Past, Present, and Future
- Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 13-11-2018
- Language: English
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Medical Downfall of the Tudors
- Sex, Reproduction & Succession
- By: Sylvia Barbara Soberton
- Narrated by: Christine Rendel
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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The Tudor dynasty died out because there was no heir of Elizabeth I's body to succeed her. Henry VIII, despite his six marriages, had produced no legitimate son who would live into old age. Three of the reigning Tudors (Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I) died without heirs apparent, the most tragic case being that of Mary Tudor, who went through two recorded cases of phantom pregnancy. If it were not for physical frailty and the lack of reproductive health among the Tudors, the course of history might have been different.
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disappointing book
- By Rosey earle on 31-08-2021
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Medical Downfall of the Tudors
- Sex, Reproduction & Succession
- Narrated by: Christine Rendel
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 15-06-2021
- Language: English
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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—revealed by dedicated researchers working with 21st-century technologies and a knowledge of language and history that now provide input from all geographic areas of the medieval world. In seven engaging lectures, Professor Armstrong corrects explanations of the pandemic that are now known to be inaccurate and offers a more robust description of plague biology than has ever been known.
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Accessible, entertaining, expert learning
- By Sarah E. on 29-11-2022
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The Black Death: New Lessons from Recent Research
- Narrated by: Dorsey Armstrong
- Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 20-05-2022
- Language: English
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Vital Organs
- By: Suzie Edge
- Narrated by: Suzie Edge
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
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The remarkable stories of the world's most famous body parts. All too often, historical figures feel distant and abstract; more myth and legend than real flesh and blood. These stories of bodies and its parts remind us that history's most-loved, and most-hated, were real breathing creatures who inhabited organs and limbs just like us - until they're cut off that is. Medical historian Dr Suzie Edge investigates over 40 cases of how we've used, abused, dug up, displayed, experimented on, and worshipped body parts.
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The voice
- By Mummy Bear on 23-03-2024
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Vital Organs
- Narrated by: Suzie Edge
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 28-09-2023
- Language: English
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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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In The Butchering Art, 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 the safe, vaunted profession we know today.
Victorian operating theatres were known as 'gateways of death', Fitzharris reminds us, since half of those who underwent surgery didn't survive the experience. This was an era when a broken leg could lead to amputation, and surgeons were still known to ransack cemeteries to find cadavers.
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Loved it
- By Miss Amy V on 14-11-2017
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The Butchering Art
- Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
- Narrated by: Sam Woolf
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 17-10-2017
- Language: English
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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 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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The Great Mortality
- An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 20-02-2024
- Language: English
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Complications
- A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
- By: Atul Gawande
- Narrated by: William David Griffith
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
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Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. This book is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is - complicated, perplexing, and profoundly human.
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more than a surgical story
- By Anonymous User on 18-03-2018
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Complications
- A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
- Narrated by: William David Griffith
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 25-04-2003
- Language: English
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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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From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind's military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. The war caused carnage on an industrial scale and the nature of trench warfare meant that thousands sustained facial injuries. In The Facemaker, 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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The Facemaker
- One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
- Narrated by: Daniel Gillies
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 07-06-2022
- Language: English
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The History of Psychedelics
- By: Erika Dyck, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Erika Dyck
- Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins
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Mescaline, LSD, and psilocybin mushrooms. There’s been a lot of discussion in the medical world lately about the potential benefits of these and other drugs for certain medical conditions, such as anxiety and depression. As we consider the place of psychedelics in the future, we can draw insight and guidance from the history of how psychedelics have been described, sought after, applied, and prohibited over the centuries. Erika Dyck, professor of history at the University of Saskatchewan, introduces you to the world of hallucinogens.
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The right mix produced mind altering affects
- By Colin on 21-03-2024
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The History of Psychedelics
- Narrated by: Erika Dyck
- Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 12-10-2023
- Language: English
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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. The goal of these vaccines is precisely what we’re now seeing in such abundance among our chronically ill children: the provocation of immune response. Cowan looks at emerging evidence that certain childhood illnesses are actually protective of disease later in life.
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Really great book!
- By Jamie Allan on 18-10-2018
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Vaccines, Autoimmunity, and the Changing Nature of Childhood Illness
- Narrated by: Madison Niederhauser
- Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 12-09-2018
- Language: English
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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. Now a major six-part television series. By the end of the Great War, 45 Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service and over 200 had been decorated. These were the women who left for war looking for adventure and romance but were soon confronted with challenges for which their civilian lives could never have prepared them.
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Brilliant.
- By Georgie on 01-07-2016
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Anzac Girls
- The Extraordinary Story of Our World War I Nurses
- Narrated by: Anna McGahan
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 21-03-2016
- Language: English
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