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Cancer Virus
- The Story of the Epstein-Barr Virus
- By: Dorothy H. Crawford, Alan B. Rickinson, Ingolfur Johannessen
- Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) was discovered in 1964. At the time, the very idea of a virus underlying a cancer was revolutionary. Cancer is, after all, not catching. Even now, the idea of a virus causing cancer surprises many people. But Epstein-Barr, named after its discoverers, Sir Anthony Epstein and Dr Yvonne Barr, is fascinating for other reasons, too. Almost everyone carries it, yet it is only under certain circumstances that it produces disease.
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Cancer Virus
- The Story of the Epstein-Barr Virus
- Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 06-06-2014
- Language: English
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Close to the Sun
- The Journey of a Pioneer Heart Surgeon
- By: Stuart Jamieson
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley Crossley
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Stuart Jamieson's story is the story of four decades of advances in heart surgery. Taut, elegantly crafted, and ever-attentive to the patients for whom he was the last best chance, Close to the Sun is an adventurous, riveting account based on the experience of over 40,000 heart surgeries, where everything was on the line every moment in the O.R.
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My Gratitude
- By Roy on 05-03-2023
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Close to the Sun
- The Journey of a Pioneer Heart Surgeon
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley Crossley
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 12-03-2019
- Language: English
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The Gene
- An Intimate History
- By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 19 hrs and 22 mins
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2017 Audie Award Finalist for Non-Fiction The #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller The basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate History From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a fascinating history of the gene and “a magisterial account of how...
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The Gene
- An Intimate History
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 19 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 17-05-2016
- Language: English
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Another Person's Poison
- A History of Food Allergy
- By: Matthew Smith
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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To some, food allergies seem like fabricated cries for attention. For others, they pose a dangerous health threat. Food allergies are bound up with so many personal and ideological concerns that it is difficult to determine what is medical and what is myth. This book parses the political, economic, cultural, and genuine health factors of a phenomenon that now dominates our interactions with others and our understanding of ourselves.
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Another Person's Poison
- A History of Food Allergy
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 16-06-2016
- Language: English
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Germs, Genes, & Civilization: How Epidemics Shaped Who We Are Today
- By: David P. Clark
- Narrated by: Summer McStravick
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
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Again and again, microbes have shaped our health, our genetics, our history, our culture, our politics, even our religion and ethics. This book reveals much that scientists and cultural historians have learned about the pervasive interconnections between infectious microbes and humans. It also considers what our ongoing fundamental relationship with infectious microbes might mean for the future of the human species.
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Germs, Genes, & Civilization: How Epidemics Shaped Who We Are Today
- Narrated by: Summer McStravick
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 09-12-2011
- Language: English
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Nightcrawlers
- Exposure collection
- By: Rosecrans Baldwin
- Narrated by: Rosecrans Baldwin
- Length: 53 mins
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It’s a Darien, Connecticut, tradition: an emergency medical service managed by adolescents. One kid is a varsity soccer captain. There’s a future doctor, a band dork, a theater geek. Theirs is a view of town without the niceties. A drunken spouse turned violent. Lonely old people stuck in the bath. A midlife suicide. How do these kids process the sometimes shocking and violent life-and-death secrets of their community? The answer is a story of high stress and uncommon high school lives, told by a writer who spent his own youth on the night shift. Welcome to Post 53.
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Nightcrawlers
- Exposure collection
- Narrated by: Rosecrans Baldwin
- Series: Exposure Collection
- Length: 53 mins
- Release date: 30-05-2019
- Language: English
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Atomic Doctors
- Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age
- By: James L. Nolan Jr.
- Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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After his father died, James L. Nolan, Jr., took possession of a box of private family materials. To his surprise, the small secret archive contained a treasure trove of information about his grandfather's role as a doctor in the Manhattan Project. Dr. Nolan, it turned out, had been a significant figure.
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Atomic Doctors
- Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age
- Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 20-10-2020
- Language: English
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Handbook of Health in War and Peace
- A Manual of Personal Preparedness
- By: Charles-Edward Amory Winslow
- Narrated by: Ellen Corcoran
- Length: 1 hr and 57 mins
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This book is a comprehensive guide that educates individuals on how to maintain good health and hygiene during times of war and peace. It deals a lot with personal health and hygiene. Amazingly enough much of the information hasn't changed since this was published in 1917. It is a great resource...
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Handbook of Health in War and Peace
- A Manual of Personal Preparedness
- Narrated by: Ellen Corcoran
- Length: 1 hr and 57 mins
- Release date: 11-04-2026
- Language: English
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How Death Becomes Life
- Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
- By: Joshua Mezrich
- Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
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Leading transplant surgeon Dr. Joshua Mezrich creates life from loss, moving organs from one body to another. In this intimate, profoundly moving work, he examines more than one hundred years of remarkable medical breakthroughs, connecting this fascinating history with the stories of his own patients. Gripping and evocative, How Death Becomes Life takes us inside the operating room and presents the stark dilemmas that transplant surgeons must face daily.
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How Death Becomes Life
- Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
- Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
- Series: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon, Book 1
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 25-06-2024
- Language: English
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Booster Shots
- The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncertain Future of Children's Health
- By: Adam Ratner MD MPH
- Narrated by: Adam Ratner MD MPH
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
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A pediatrician and infectious disease specialist warns of the resurgence of measles, the antivaccine movement, and how we can prepare for the next pandemic Every single child diagnosed with measles represents a system failure—an inexcusable unforced error. The technology to prevent essentially...
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Booster Shots
- The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncertain Future of Children's Health
- Narrated by: Adam Ratner MD MPH
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 11-02-2025
- Language: English
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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.
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Slouch
- Posture Panic in Modern America
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 09-04-2024
- Language: English
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These Vital Signs
- A Doctor's Notes on Life and Loss in Tweets
- By: Sayed Tabatabai
- Narrated by: Christopher Salazar
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
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A doctor reflects on his profession and his experience with patients in this brilliant essay collection that expands on his wildly popular Twitter poems. In medicine, every patient presents with a story. “Once upon a time I was well, and then . . . ” These patient narratives are the beating...
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A most beautiful read
- By LYNNEF on 08-06-2023
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These Vital Signs
- A Doctor's Notes on Life and Loss in Tweets
- Narrated by: Christopher Salazar
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 16-05-2023
- Language: English
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Opium’s Orphans
- The 200-Year History of the War on Drugs
- By: P.E. Caquet
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
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Opium's Orphans is the first full history of drug prohibition and the "war on drugs." A no-holds-barred but balanced account, it shows that drug suppression was born of historical accident, not rational design. The war on drugs did not originate in Europe or the United States, and even less with President Nixon, but in China. Two Opium Wars followed by Western attempts to atone for them gave birth to an anti-narcotics order that has come to span the globe. But has the war on drugs succeeded?
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Rigorous, engaging and topical
- By V Bourgeois on 02-04-2025
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Opium’s Orphans
- The 200-Year History of the War on Drugs
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 16-06-2022
- Language: English
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The Wine-Dark Sea Within
- A Turbulent History of Blood
- By: Dhun Sethna
- Narrated by: Chinua Hawk
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
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A revisionist history of medicine, in which blood plays the starring role Inspired by Homer’s description of the ebb and flow of the “wine dark sea,” the ancient Greeks conceived a back-and-forth movement of blood. That false notion, perpetuated by the influential Roman physician Galen...
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The Wine-Dark Sea Within
- A Turbulent History of Blood
- Narrated by: Chinua Hawk
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 07-06-2022
- Language: English
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The Doctor Will See You Now
- Essays on the Changing Practice of Medicine
- By: Cory Franklin MD
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
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Is it smart to skip your annual physical? Should you put your trust in medical research? Is "low T" an actual disease? This book will examine these questions and more you've always wondered about in a collection of 50 essays on the medicine. The Doctor Will See You Now is a quirky and eclectic collection of short essays that explore evolving patient-physician relationship and reporting on medicine; famous doctors and notorious patients; surprising hospital practices and the future of healthcare; medical research, ethics, drugs, and money; and the brave new world of neurology.
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The Doctor Will See You Now
- Essays on the Changing Practice of Medicine
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 01-04-2018
- Language: English
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The Healing Imperative
- The Early Church and the Invention of Medicine as We Know It
- By: Mike Aquilina
- Narrated by: Mike Aquilina
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
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When Jesus sent 70 disciples on ahead of him, part of their mission was to heal the sick. In fact, they were supposed to heal the sick before they preached the Gospel. Best-selling author Mike Aquilina calls this command the healing imperative. And it's an imperative that ushered in the world of modern medicine. In The Healing Imperative: The Early Church and the Invention of Medicine as We Know It, Aquilina reconstructs the fascinating history of a uniquely Christian institution: the hospital.
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The Healing Imperative
- The Early Church and the Invention of Medicine as We Know It
- Narrated by: Mike Aquilina
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 05-03-2018
- Language: English
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Amazing Medical People
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- By: F. H. Cornish, Fiona MacKenzie
- Narrated by: Collins
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: Edward Jenner, the man who fought the terrible disease, smallpox Florence Nightingale, the nurse known as ‘the lady with the lamp’ Elizabeth Garrett, England’s first female doctor Carl Jung, the doctor who wanted to...
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Amazing Medical People
- A2-B1
- Narrated by: Collins
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
- Release date: 13-07-2017
- Language: English
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Battlefield Surgeon: Life and Death on the Front Lines of World War II
- American Warrior Series
- By: Paul A. Kennedy
- Narrated by: Ellery Truesdell
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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In November 1942, Paul Andrew Kennedy (1912-1993) boarded the St. Elena in New York Harbor and sailed for Casablanca as part of Operation Torch, the massive Allied invasion of North Africa. As a member of the US Army's 2nd Auxiliary Surgical Group, he spent the next 34 months working in North Africa, Italy, France, and Germany, in close proximity to the front lines and often under air or artillery bombardment. He was uncomfortable, struck by the sorrows of war, and homesick for his wife.
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Battlefield Surgeon: Life and Death on the Front Lines of World War II
- American Warrior Series
- Narrated by: Ellery Truesdell
- Series: American Warriors Series
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 23-06-2016
- Language: English
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Heart in the Right Place
- A Memoir
- By: Carolyn Jourdan
- Narrated by: Kate Forbes
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
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Carolyn Jourdan spent many years as a congressional lawyer in Washington, D.C. Then she was called home to fill in for her mother as receptionist at her father's rural Tennessee doctor's office - assured it would only be for a few days.
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Heart in the Right Place
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Kate Forbes
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 24-03-2008
- Language: English
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The Professor of Secrets
- Mystery, Medicine, and Alchemy in Renaissance Italy
- By: William Eamon
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
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this exciting story illuminates the captivating world of the late Renaissance - in this case its plagues, remedies, and alchemy - through the life of Leonardo Fioravanti, a brilliant, remarkably forward-thinking, and utterly unconventional doctor. Fioravanti's marvelous cures and talent for self-aggrandizement earned him the adoration of the people, the scorn of the medical establishment, and a reputation as one of the age's most colorful, combative figures.
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Eloquently captures Europe in the 1500s.
- By Maggs on 21-02-2019
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The Professor of Secrets
- Mystery, Medicine, and Alchemy in Renaissance Italy
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 31-12-2010
- Language: English
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