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Recovery
- The Lost Art of Convalescence
- By: Dr Gavin Francis
- Narrated by: Dr 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. Here, GP and writer Gavin Francis explores how - and why - we get better, revealing the many shapes recovery takes, its shifting history and the frequent failure of our modern lives to make adequate space for it.
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Revelatory
- By Jim Parker on 04-12-2022
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Recovery
- The Lost Art of Convalescence
- Narrated by: Dr Gavin Francis
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 31-03-2022
- Language: English
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Bloody Lies
- A CSI Scandal in the Heartland (Black Squirrel Booksy)
- By: John Ferak
- Narrated by: Rich Grimshaw
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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The remote farming community of Murdock, Nebraska, seemed to be the least likely setting for one of the heartland's most ruthless and bloody double murders in decades. In fact, the little town had gone more than a century without a single homicide. But on the night of Easter 2006, Wayne and Sharmon Stock were brutally murdered in their home. The murders garnered sensational front page headlines and drew immediate statewide attention. Practically everybody around Murdock was filled with fear, panic, and outrage. Who killed Wayne and Sharmon Stock? What was the motive?
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Bloody Lies
- A CSI Scandal in the Heartland (Black Squirrel Booksy)
- Narrated by: Rich Grimshaw
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 22-07-2015
- Language: English
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The Urge
- Our History of Addiction
- By: Carl Erik Fisher
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and The Boston Globe An authoritative, illuminating, and deeply humane history of addiction—a phenomenon that remains baffling and deeply misunderstood despite having touched countless lives—by an addiction psychiatrist striving to understand...
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Informative, compassionate and brave.
- By Bree on 30-06-2024
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The Urge
- Our History of Addiction
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 25-01-2022
- Language: English
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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
- By: Edward T. Haslam
- Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 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 over the course of three decades. Following a trail of police records, FBI files, cancer statistics, and medical journals, this revealing book presents evidence of a web of medical secret-keeping that began with the handling of evidence in the JFK assassination and continued apace....
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Brilliantly Worrying
- By Anonymous on 30-06-2021
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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
- Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 17-09-2012
- Language: English
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The History of Medicine in Twelve Objects
- By: Carol Cooper
- Narrated by: Carol Cooper
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Discover the fascinating history of medicine from its primitive beginnings to the lifesaving technologies of today. Award-winning author Dr Carol Cooper takes you on a journey through the 12 objects that have come to define medicine through the ages – from the barbaric and bizarre to the...
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The History of Medicine in Twelve Objects
- Narrated by: Carol Cooper
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 22-10-2024
- Language: English
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This Mortal Coil
- By: Andrew Doig
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
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Dementia, heart failure and cancer are now the leading causes of death in industrialised nations, where life expectancy is mostly above 80. A century ago, life expectancy was about 50 and people died mainly from infectious diseases. In the Middle Ages, death was mostly caused by famine, plague, childbirth and war. In the Palaeolithic period, where our species spent 95% of its time, we frequently died from violence and accidents.
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An extraordinary and insightful journey through the challenges of human existence.
- By Walshes on 05-01-2024
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This Mortal Coil
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 03-02-2022
- Language: English
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Milk of Paradise
- A History of Opium
- By: Lucy Inglis
- Narrated by: Colleen Prendergast
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Poppy tears, opium, heroin, fentanyl: humankind has been in thrall to the ‘Milk of Paradise’ for millennia. The latex of papaver somniferum is a bringer of sleep, of pleasurable lethargy, of relief from pain - and hugely addictive. A commodity without rival, it is renewable, easy to extract, transport and refine, and subject to an insatiable global demand. No other substance in the world is as simple to produce or as profitable. It is the basis of a gargantuan industry built upon a shady underworld, but ultimately it is a farm-gate material that lives many lives ....
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Milk of Paradise
- A History of Opium
- Narrated by: Colleen Prendergast
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 09-08-2018
- Language: English
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Bad Influence
- How the Internet Hijacked Our Health
- By: Deborah Cohen
- Narrated by: Deborah Cohen
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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When did we start trusting influencers over doctors? You used to see a doctor. Now you go online. Want to track your blood sugar? Your heart rate? Your sleep? You can. Need to focus? Want to lose weight fast? Everything is a click away. But who is regulating this? As hospital wait times grow ever longer and some patients are priced out of medical care altogether, influencers have filled the gap. From doctors promoting new therapies, to entrepreneurs selling solutions, these self-styled experts glow with good health and guarantee results.
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Bad Influence
- How the Internet Hijacked Our Health
- Narrated by: Deborah Cohen
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 03-02-2026
- Language: English
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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. The Nobel laureate Otto Warburg—a cousin of the famous finance Warburgs—was widely regarded in his day as one of the most important biochemists of the...
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Ravenous
- Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 25-05-2021
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of Eugenics
- From “Science” to Atrocity―How a Dangerous Movement Shaped the World, and Why It Persists
- By: Erik L. Peterson
- Narrated by: Tom Beyer
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
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For the last two centuries, groups of influential men have, in the professed interest of fiscal responsibility, crime reduction, and outright racism, attempted to control who was allowed to bear children. Their efforts, "eugenics," characterize a movement that over the last century swept across the world—from the US to Brazil, Japan, India, Australia, and beyond—in the form of marriage restrictions, asylum detention, and sterilization campaigns affected millions. German physicians and scientists adopted and then heightened these eugenics practices beginning in 1939.
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The Shortest History of Eugenics
- From “Science” to Atrocity―How a Dangerous Movement Shaped the World, and Why It Persists
- Narrated by: Tom Beyer
- Series: The Shortest History
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 18-03-2025
- Language: English
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The Surgeon, the Midwife, the Quack
- How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England
- By: Alanna Skuse
- Narrated by: Danielle Cohen
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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When we imagine Renaissance medicine, the cliché is dreadful–unsterile instruments, a total lack of anaesthetics and shocking levels of infant and maternal mortality. And that’s before you get into astrology, bloodletting and a litany of bizarre ‘treatments’, more likely to kill than cure… As ever, the true picture is somewhat different. Here, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, modern medicine began to take shape.
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The Surgeon, the Midwife, the Quack
- How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England
- Narrated by: Danielle Cohen
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 16-10-2025
- 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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Complicity of government
- By Alan Power on 22-06-2024
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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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Deadly Outbreaks
- How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened by Killer Pandemics, Exotic Viruses, and Drug-Resistant Parasites
- By: Alexandra Levitt
- Narrated by: Julie McKay
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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Despite advances in health care, infectious microbes continue to be a formidable adversary to scientists and doctors. Vaccines and antibiotics, the mainstays of modern medicine, have not been able to conquer infectious microbes because of their amazing ability to adapt, evolve, and spread to new places. Terrorism aside, one of the greatest dangers from infectious disease we face today is from a massive outbreak of drug-resistant microbes.
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So boring
- By Anonymous on 10-04-2024
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Deadly Outbreaks
- How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened by Killer Pandemics, Exotic Viruses, and Drug-Resistant Parasites
- Narrated by: Julie McKay
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 01-09-2013
- Language: English
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Shooting Up
- A Short History of Drugs and War
- By: Lukasz Kamienski
- Narrated by: Ricco Fajardo
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
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Shooting Up: A Short History of Drugs and War examines how intoxicants have been put to the service of states, empires, and their armies throughout history. Since the beginning of organized combat, armed forces have prescribed drugs to their members for two general purposes: to enhance performance during combat and to counter the trauma of killing and witnessing violence after it is over.
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Shooting Up
- A Short History of Drugs and War
- Narrated by: Ricco Fajardo
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 08-04-2016
- Language: English
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Gratitude
- By: Oliver Sacks
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 36 mins
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Oliver Sacks died in August 2015 at his home in Greenwich Village, surrounded by his close friends and family. He was 82. He spent his final days doing what he loved: playing the piano, swimming, enjoying smoked salmon – and writing . . . As Dr Sacks looked back over his long, adventurous life...
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The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays
- By: Thomas Szasz
- Narrated by: Gary D. MacFadden
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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Defining "medicalization" as the perception of nonmedical conditions as medical problems and nondiseases as diseases, Thomas Szasz has devoted much of his career to exposing the dangers of "medicalizing" the conditions of some who simply refuse to conform to society's expectations. Szasz argues that modern psychiatry's tireless ambition to explain the human condition has led to the treatment of life's difficulties and oddities as clinical illnesses rather than as humanity revealed in its fullness.
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Make this part of the school system syllabus
- By Anonymous on 21-07-2022
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The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays
- Narrated by: Gary D. MacFadden
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 24-07-2014
- Language: English
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Notes on Nursing
- What It Is and What It Isn't
- By: Florence Nightingale
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
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These outspoken writings by the founder of modern nursing record fundamentals in the needs of the sick that must be provided in all nursing. Nightingale covers such timeless topics as ventilation, noise, food, bed and bedding, light, cleanliness, and observation of the sick.
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Loved this!!
- By Anonymous on 03-09-2022
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Notes on Nursing
- What It Is and What It Isn't
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 30-09-2010
- Language: English
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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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Great book!
- By Anonymous on 27-07-2024
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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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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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Vaccine
- How the Breakthrough of a Generation Fought Covid-19
- By: Joe Miller, Ugur Sahin, Özlem Türeci
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
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In mid-January 2020, scientists Ugur Sahin and Özlem Türeci learned of how a new virus that had emerged in Wuhan, China, was spreading. Recognising the threat at once, they dropped everything and committed themselves to developing a vaccine against the disease that would soon be known as COVID-19. No one believed it was possible. But by December, the revolutionary BioNTech-Pfizer mRNA inoculation became the first clinically approved COVID-19 vaccine. Soon it was being injected into the arms of millions, turning the tide on the deadliest pandemic in living memory.
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Fascinating Chronicle of achievement
- By Willy on 21-10-2021
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Vaccine
- How the Breakthrough of a Generation Fought Covid-19
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 14-09-2021
- Language: English
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