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The One Thing We've Never Spoken About
- Exposing Our Untold Mental Health Crisis
- By: Elfy Scott
- Narrated by: Elfy Scott
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
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Over the past two decades, we have started talking more about common mental health conditions like depression and anxiety. But complex conditions like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and psychosis have been left behind, as have many of the people who live with these conditions or who care for them. Part memoir, part deep-dive investigation, The One Thing We've Never Spoken About is filled with rage at how our nation's public discourse, emergency services and healthcare systems continue to fail so many people.
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Take away the Stigma
- By P J Jerome on 01-10-2023
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The One Thing We've Never Spoken About
- Exposing Our Untold Mental Health Crisis
- Narrated by: Elfy Scott
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 15-03-2023
- Language: English
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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. An international best seller, a nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and made into a critically acclaimed movie, Shilts' expose revealed why AIDS was allowed to spread unchecked during the early 80s while the most trusted institutions ignored or denied the threat.
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Should be mandatory reading for all
- By Rachel on 29-08-2016
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And the Band Played On
- Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 31 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 11-08-2009
- Language: English
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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. Doctors, parents, and health officials were at a loss to explain why this formerly unheard-of disease began paralyzing so many children. Why did this disease start to become such a horrible problem during the late 1800s? Why did it affect children more often than adults? Why was it originally called teething paralysis by mothers and their doctors?
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Thank you Forrest
- By Alanna Hale on 18-09-2023
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The Moth in the Iron Lung
- A Biography of Polio
- Narrated by: Forrest Maready
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 19-06-2018
- Language: English
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Good Blood
- A Doctor, a Donor, and the Incredible Breakthrough that Saved Millions of Babies
- By: Julian Guthrie
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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In Good Blood, best-selling writer Julian Guthrie tells the gripping tale of the race to cure a horrible affliction known as Rh disease that stalked families and caused a mother’s immune system to attack her own unborn child. The story is anchored by two very different men on two continents: Dr. John Gorman in New York, who would land on a brilliant yet contrarian idea, and the unassuming Australian whose almost magical blood - and his unyielding devotion to donating it - would save millions of lives.
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Good Blood
- A Doctor, a Donor, and the Incredible Breakthrough that Saved Millions of Babies
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 08-09-2020
- 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 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. This fascinating collection of historical curiosities explores some of the strangest cases that have perplexed doctors across the world.
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Enjoyable
- By Amazon Customer on 05-05-2019
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The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine
- Narrated by: Rupert Farley, Thomas Morris
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 08-11-2018
- Language: English
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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; and an unprecedented curtailment of civil liberties and freedoms in the name of keeping people safe by locking them up in their homes.
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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 Truth About Covid-19
- Exposing the Great Reset, Lockdowns, Vaccine Passports, and the New Normal
- Narrated by: Nolan Chase
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 29-04-2021
- Language: English
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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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A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our thinking to the point that we take it for granted, and we forget how provocative and challenging its ideas once were - and still are. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is that kind of book.
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An essential read for scientists and laymen alike
- By Anonymous User on 01-02-2024
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 12-01-2016
- Language: English
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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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For two thousand years, cadavers have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every new surgical procedure, from heart transplants to gender reassignment surgery, cadavers have been there alongside surgeons, making history in their quiet way.
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A down to earth, thought provoking discussion
- By Michael on 09-06-2016
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Stiff
- The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
- Narrated by: Shelly Frasier
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 26-02-2004
- 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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Plagues and Peoples
- By: William H. McNeill
- Narrated by: Douglas James
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
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From the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to the typhoid epidemic in Europe, William H. McNeill's Plagues and Peoples is a brilliantly conceptualized and challenging achievement (Kirkus Reviews). Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history. With the identification of AIDS in the early 1980s, another chapter was added to this chronicle of events, which William McNeill explores in his introduction to this edition.
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Plagues and Peoples
- Narrated by: Douglas James
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 06-05-2024
- 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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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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Death is the last taboo in our society, and grief is still profoundly misunderstood. So many of us feel awkward and uncertain around death and shy away from talking honestly with family and friends. Grief Works is a compassionate guide that will inform and engage anyone who is grieving, from the expected death of a parent to the sudden unexpected death of a small child, 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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Grief Works
- Stories of Life, Death and Surviving
- Narrated by: Julia Samuel
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 02-03-2017
- 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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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 in the name of science and Japan's wartime chemical and biological warfare research. Author Hal Gold draws upon a wealth of sources to construct a portrait of the Imperial Japanese Army's most notorious medical unit, giving an overview of its history and detailing its most shocking activities.
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Terrible truths
- By Anonymous User on 07-03-2024
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Japan's Infamous Unit 731
- Firsthand Accounts of Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 18-08-2020
- Language: English
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County
- Life, Death, and Politics at Chicago’s Public Hospital
- By: David A. Ansell MD
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
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This amazing tale is the story of one of America's oldest and most unusual urban hospitals. From it's inception as a "Poor House" dispensing free medical care to indigents, Chicago's Cook County Hospital has been both a renowned teaching hospital and the healthcare provider of last resort for the city's uninsured. County covers more than thirty years of its history, beginning in the late 1970s when the author began his internship, to the "Final Rounds" when the enormous iconic Victorian hospital building was replaced and hundreds of former trainees gathered to bid it an emotional farewell.
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County
- Life, Death, and Politics at Chicago’s Public Hospital
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 19-10-2011
- Language: English
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Wonder Drug
- The Hidden Victims of America’s Secret Thalidomide Scandal
- By: Jennifer Vanderbes
- Narrated by: Jennifer Vanderbes
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
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In Germany on Christmas Day 1956 a baby girl was born without ears. She was the first victim of the notorious thalidomide epidemic. There would be over 10,000 more across 46 countries. For years the world believed the United States had avoided the catastrophe. After Frances Kelsey at the FDA became suspicious of the dangers of thalidomide in 1960, she led a successful fight to block its commercial approval. But now, having probed government and corporate archives and interviewed hundreds of key players, Jennifer Vanderbes reveals a darker truth that lay buried for decades.
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Wonder Drug
- The Hidden Victims of America’s Secret Thalidomide Scandal
- Narrated by: Jennifer Vanderbes
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 06-07-2023
- 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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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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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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