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A Hard Silence
- One Daughter Remaps Family, Grief, and Faith When HIV/AIDS Changes It All
- By: Melanie Brooks
- Narrated by: Melanie Brooks
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
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In the mid 1980s, Canada's worst public health disaster was unfolding. Catastrophic mismanagement of the country's blood supply allowed contaminated blood to be knowingly distributed, infecting close to two thousand Canadians with HIV. Among them was Melanie Brooks's surgeon father who, after receiving a blood transfusion during open-heart surgery in 1985, learned he was HIV positive. At a time when HIV/AIDS was misunderstood and public perception was shaped by fear, prejudice, and homophobia, victims of the disease faced ostracism and persecution. Wanting to protect his family from this stigma, Melanie's father decided his illness would be a secret they'd all keep.
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A Hard Silence
- One Daughter Remaps Family, Grief, and Faith When HIV/AIDS Changes It All
- Narrated by: Melanie Brooks
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 17-06-2024
- Language: English
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Renaissance Men
- Agents of Medical and Cultural Modernity
- By: Harriet A. Washington
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Medical Apartheid, the gripping, untold stories of three unsung Black physicians and their critical contributions to the field of medicine and American culture. Between 1847 and 1952, three New York City doctors transformed medicine...
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Renaissance Men
- Agents of Medical and Cultural Modernity
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 10-11-2026
- Language: English
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The Graft
- How a Pioneering Operation Sparked the Modern Age of Organ Transplants
- By: Edmund O. Lawler
- Narrated by: Edmund O. Lawler
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
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The first human organ transplant in 1950 at a suburban hospital is the focus of The Graft: How a Pioneering Operation Sparked the Modern Age of Organ Transplants. The book examines the controversies the operation generated and the progress medicine has made in organ transplantation.
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The Graft
- How a Pioneering Operation Sparked the Modern Age of Organ Transplants
- Narrated by: Edmund O. Lawler
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 12-05-2026
- Language: English
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The Doctors' Riot of 1788
- Body Snatching, Bloodletting, and Anatomy in America
- By: Andy McPhee
- Narrated by: Tim H. Dixon
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
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Throughout the seventeenth century, medical lecturers demonstrated human anatomy by dissecting a cadaver while surrounded by students. After the Revolutionary War, though, instructors realized that they needed many more cadavers to serve a growing number of medical students. Enter the “resurrectionists”–body snatchers. Resurrectionists were a cruel lot; men (almost always men and often medical students themselves) who would sneak into a cemetery under the cover of darkness, remove a body, and then sell it to a physician or anatomist–usually for around $100.
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The Doctors' Riot of 1788
- Body Snatching, Bloodletting, and Anatomy in America
- Narrated by: Tim H. Dixon
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 02-03-2026
- Language: English
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Top 10 Vaccine Objections
- Doubts and Conversations
- By: Alex Ramirez
- Narrated by: Andy Stevenson
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
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This work of narrative non-fiction deals with common questions and doubts people have about vaccines, using very accessible, conversational, non-technical language.
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Top 10 Vaccine Objections
- Doubts and Conversations
- Narrated by: Andy Stevenson
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
- Release date: 24-02-2026
- Language: English
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The Emperor of All Maladies
- A Biography of Cancer
- By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 27 hrs and 27 mins
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE * A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 100 BOOK OF THE CENTURY * A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * A TIME ALL-TIME 100 NONFICTION BOOK Updated with FOUR NEW MAJOR CHAPTERS illuminating the new developments in cancer detection, prevention, treatment, and...
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The Emperor of All Maladies
- A Biography of Cancer
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 27 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 25-11-2025
- Language: English
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A History of the World in Six Plagues
- How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to Covid-19
- By: Edna Bonhomme
- Narrated by: Veronique Olin
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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An “incredible, humane, insightful” (Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize winner) account of humankind’s battles with epidemic disease, and their outsized role in deepening inequality along racial, ethnic, class, and gender lines—in the vein of Medical Apartheid and Killing the Black Body. With...
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A History of the World in Six Plagues
- How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to Covid-19
- Narrated by: Veronique Olin
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 25-03-2025
- Language: English
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The Song of the Cell
- An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
- By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 16 hrs and 3 mins
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Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauqua Prize! Named a New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Oprah Daily, BookPage, Book Riot, the New York Public Library, and more! In The Song of the Cell, the...
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The Song of the Cell
- An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 16 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 25-10-2022
- Language: English
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Empire of the Scalpel
- The History of Surgery
- By: Ira Rutkow M.D.
- Narrated by: Gibson Frazier
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
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From an eminent surgeon and historian comes the “by turns fascinating and ghastly” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice) story of surgery’s development—from the Stone Age to the present day—blending meticulous medical research with vivid storytelling. There are not many...
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Empire of the Scalpel
- The History of Surgery
- Narrated by: Gibson Frazier
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 08-03-2022
- Language: English
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Cells of Eternity: The Woman Who Changed Medicine Forever
- The Immortal Legacy, Book 1
- By: David G. Stone
- Narrated by: Megan Warren
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
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The cells were supposed to die. Instead, they changed everything. When Henrietta Lacks walked into Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1951 complaining of vaginal bleeding, neither she nor her doctors could have imagined the medical revolution about to unfold. The cervical cancer that would claim her life at age 31 harbored an extraordinary secret: her cells could live forever. Without her knowledge or consent, those cells would reshape modern medicine. Dubbed "HeLa" cells, Henrietta's tissue became the cornerstone of countless medical breakthroughs.
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Cells of Eternity: The Woman Who Changed Medicine Forever
- The Immortal Legacy, Book 1
- Narrated by: Megan Warren
- Series: The Immortal Legacy, Book 1
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 09-01-2026
- Language: English
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All About Allergies
- How to Live Well with Asthma, Food Allergies, Hay Fever and More
- By: Zachary Rubin
- Narrated by: Zachary Rubin
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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Read by the author, Dr Zachary Rubin. Understand your allergies and discover easy ways to feel better every day. "The clear, compassionate and evidence-based guide we've all been waiting for' - Dr. Mary Claire Haver, MD, New York Times bestselling author of The New Menopause From viral social...
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All About Allergies
- How to Live Well with Asthma, Food Allergies, Hay Fever and More
- Narrated by: Zachary Rubin
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 26-02-2026
- Language: English
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The Open Heart Club
- A Story about Birth and Death and Cardiac Surgery
- By: Gabriel Brownstein
- Narrated by: Gabriel Brownstein
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
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This absorbing and poignant book is not merely the story of one writer's flawed heart. It is a history of cardiac medicine, a candid personal journey, and a profound reflection on mortality. Born in 1966 with a congenital heart defect known as the tetralogy of Fallot, Gabriel Brownstein entered...
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The Open Heart Club
- A Story about Birth and Death and Cardiac Surgery
- Narrated by: Gabriel Brownstein
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 22-10-2019
- Language: English
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The Unseen Body
- A Doctor's Journey Through the Hidden Wonders of Human Anatomy
- By: M.D. Jonathan Reisman
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
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"Petkoff gives a flawless performance of this doctor/naturalist's memoir, conveying both his inquisitiveness and assuredness with aplomb." - AudioFile "A fascinating, lyrical book... Reisman's experiences in other cultures bring a richness and depth to The Unseen Body. The way he thinks about...
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The Unseen Body
- A Doctor's Journey Through the Hidden Wonders of Human Anatomy
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 09-11-2021
- Language: English
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The Air They Breathe
- A Pediatrician on the Frontlines of Climate Change
- By: Debra Hendrickson
- Narrated by: Megan Tusing
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
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A timely, revelatory first look into the impact climate change has on children—the greatest moral crisis humanity faces today—by a pediatrician in the fastest warming city in America. Wildfires, hurricanes, and heat waves make headlines. But what is happening in Debra Hendrickson’s clinic...
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The Air They Breathe
- A Pediatrician on the Frontlines of Climate Change
- Narrated by: Megan Tusing
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 02-07-2024
- Language: English
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Your Money or Your Life
- Debt Collection in American Medicine
- By: Luke Messac
- Narrated by: Luke Messac
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
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For the crime of falling sick without wealth, Americans today face lawsuits, wage garnishment, home foreclosure, and jail time. Yet who really profits from aggressive medical debt collection? Your Money or Your Life reveals how medical debt collection became a multi-billion-dollar industry and how everyday Americans are made to pay the price. Emergency physician and historian Luke Messac weaves patient stories into a history of law, finance, and medicine to show how debt and debt collection are destroying the foundational trust between doctors and patients at the heart of American healthcare.
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Your Money or Your Life
- Debt Collection in American Medicine
- Narrated by: Luke Messac
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 11-01-2024
- Language: English
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Un planeta de virus
- By: Carl Zimmer, Antonio Lozano
- Narrated by: Luis García Márquez
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
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"Mientras escribo esto, a lo largo del año 2015, los científicos intentan adelantarse a las próximas pandemias. Nadie es capaz de predecir cuándo una cepa en particular llevará a cabo el salto, si acaso lo hará. Sin embargo, no estamos indefensos ante lo que la evolución pueda tenernos reservado. Contamos con recursos para contrarrestar la expansión de la gripe, como lavarnos las manos. Y los científicos están aprendiendo a fabricar vacunas más efectivas. Al menos, ya no tenemos que mirar hacia las estrellas en busca de protección." — Carl Zimmer
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Un planeta de virus
- Narrated by: Luis García Márquez
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 10-01-2024
- Language: Spanish
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El chico a quien criaron como perro
- Y otras historias del cuaderno de un psiquiatra infantil
- By: Bruce Perry, Maia Szalavitz, Lucía Barahona - traductora
- Narrated by: Alan Bochm
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
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¿Qué pasa cuando se traumatiza un cerebro joven? ¿Cómo afecta la mente de un niño el terror, el abuso o la desgracia? El psiquiatra infantil Bruce Perry ha ayudado a muchos a superar horrores inimaginables: niños supervivientes de genocidios o testigos de homicidio, adolescentes secuestrados o víctimas de violencia familiar. Mediante la observación del trauma a través de la lente científica, Perry nos revela la asombrosa capacidad del cerebro para curarse.
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El chico a quien criaron como perro
- Y otras historias del cuaderno de un psiquiatra infantil
- Narrated by: Alan Bochm
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 10-01-2024
- Language: Spanish
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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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Policing Pregnant Bodies
- From Ancient Greece to Post-Roe America
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 13-02-2024
- Language: English
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Die Intelligenz des Körpers und das Bewusstsein der Zellen
- Selbstheilung durch Zellintelligenz
- By: Regula Zwicky
- Narrated by: Julia Katterfeld
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
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BEWUSSTSEIN IST ALLES - OHNE BEWUSSTSEIN IST ALLES NICHTS. Dieses Hörbuch führt Sie durch die Geschichte der Medizin, angefangen beim heiligen Tempelschlaf der Antike - wo das Körper - Seele - Geist Prinzip noch vorhanden war - bis hin zum Momentum der Trennung und weiter zu den ganzheitlichen Bestrebungen der heutigen Zeit. Die faszinierendste neue Wissenschaftsdisziplin ist die Psychoneuroimmunologie. Erstmals wird auf dem Sektor der modernen Medizin die geistig-seelische Dimension miteinbezogen und ernsthaft erforscht. Es kann keinen Zweifel mehr geben, dass der Geist auf den Körper einwirkt.
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Die Intelligenz des Körpers und das Bewusstsein der Zellen
- Selbstheilung durch Zellintelligenz
- Narrated by: Julia Katterfeld
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 20-12-2023
- Language: German
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Gray Matters
- A Biography of Brain Surgery
- By: Theodore H. Schwartz
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
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An Economist Best Book of 2024 “If you are at all curious about the brain or the surgeons who operate on it, Gray Matters is a must read and Dr. Theodore Schwartz is the perfect guide, a master brain surgeon and superbly talented writer. I have not read a better biography of our shared...
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Gray Matters
- A Biography of Brain Surgery
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 13-08-2024
- Language: English
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