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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
- Unabridged
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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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Ancient Remedies
- Secrets to Healing with Herbs, Essential Oils, CBD, and the Most Powerful Natural Medicine in History
- By: Josh Axe
- Narrated by: Chris Abell
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Bestselling author Dr. Josh Axe explains how to treat more than seventy diseases, lose weight, and increase vitality with traditional healing practices passed down through the ages. “Engaging, accessible and comprehensive.” —Amy Myers, MD, author of The Autoimmune Solution Long before the...
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Ancient Remedies
- Secrets to Healing with Herbs, Essential Oils, CBD, and the Most Powerful Natural Medicine in History
- Narrated by: Chris Abell
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 02-02-2021
- 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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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
- Unabridged
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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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The Deadly Dinner Party
- By: Jonathan A. Edlow
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Picking up where Berton Roueche's The Medical Detectives left off, The Deadly Dinner Party presents 15 edge-of-your-seat, real-life medical detective stories written by a practicing physician. Award-winning author Jonathan Edlow, MD, shows the doctor as detective and the epidemiologist as elite sleuth in stories that are as gripping as the best thrillers.
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Super interesting
- By Anonymon on 07-04-2024
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The Deadly Dinner Party
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 16-06-2020
- Language: English
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The Autumn Ghost
- How the Battle Against a Polio Epidemic Revolutionized Modern Medical Care
- By: Hannah Wunsch
- Narrated by: Emily Durante
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Intensive care units and mechanical ventilation are the crucial foundation of modern medical care: without them, the appalling death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic would be even higher. In The Autumn Ghost, Dr. Hannah Wunsch traces the origins of these two innovations back to a polio epidemic in the autumn of 1952. Drawing together testimony from doctors, nurses, medical students, and patients, Wunsch relates a gripping tale of an epidemic that changed the world.
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The Autumn Ghost
- How the Battle Against a Polio Epidemic Revolutionized Modern Medical Care
- Narrated by: Emily Durante
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 30-01-2024
- 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
- Unabridged
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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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The History of Medicine
- By: Mark Jackson
- Narrated by: Tom Alexander
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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As scientists confidently look forward to average life expectancies hitting 100+ years in some Western societies, it’s easy to forget how precarious our grasp on good health has been. It is a struggle no better demonstrated than by the myriad and extraordinary measures that humans have gone to – as diverse as animal sacrifice to stem cell transplants – in their quest to stave off death and disease. Acclaimed historian Mark Jackson takes a fresh global view of mankind’s great battle, exploring both Western and Eastern traditions.
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The History of Medicine
- Narrated by: Tom Alexander
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 01-03-2024
- Language: English
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Doctors at War: Life and Death in a Field Hospital
- The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
- By: Mark de Rond
- Narrated by: Alan Roy
- Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Doctors at War is a candid account of a trauma surgical team based, for a tour of duty, at a field hospital in Helmand, Afghanistan. Mark de Rond tells of the highs and lows of surgical life in hard-hitting detail, bringing to life a morally ambiguous world in which good people face impossible choices and in which routines designed to normalize experience have the unintended effect of highlighting war’s absurdity. With stories that are at once comical and tragic, de Rond captures the surreal experience of being a doctor at war.
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Doctors at War: Life and Death in a Field Hospital
- The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
- Narrated by: Alan Roy
- Series: The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
- Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 30-09-2020
- 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
- Unabridged
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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 Doctors' Plague
- Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis
- By: Sherwin B. Nuland
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Ignác Semmelweis is remembered for the now-commonplace notion that doctors must wash their hands before examining patients. In mid-19th century Vienna, however, this was a subversive idea. With deaths from childbed fever exploding, Semmelweis discovered that doctors themselves were spreading the disease. While his simple reforms worked immediately - childbed fever in Vienna all but disappeared - they brought down upon Semmelweis the wrath of the establishment, and led to his tragic end.
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The Doctors' Plague
- Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 30-06-2020
- Language: English
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Can Medicine Be Cured?
- By: Seamus O'Mahony
- Narrated by: Seamus O’Mahony
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
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Seamus O'Mahony writes about the illusion of progress, the notion that more and more diseases can be "conquered" ad infinitum. He punctures the idiocy of consumerism, the idea that healthcare can be endlessly adapted to the wishes of individuals. He excoriates the claims of Big Science, the spending of vast sums on research follies like the Human Genome Project. And he highlights one of the most dangerous errors of industrialized medicine: an over-reliance on metrics, and a neglect of things that can't easily be measured, like compassion.
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Thought provoking esaay on where medicine has gone off track
- By Amazon Customer on 17-08-2024
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Can Medicine Be Cured?
- Narrated by: Seamus O’Mahony
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 14-09-2023
- 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
- Unabridged
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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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Unlocking the Ancient Secrets to Healing
- By: Gail Lynn
- Narrated by: Gail Lynn, Christi Bowen, Adam Lofbomm
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
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Part memoir, part illuminating treatise on why science is looking to the past for the future of medicine, Unlocking the Ancient Secrets to Healing chronicles the personal tribulations and professional discoveries behind the remarkable realization of Gail Lynn’s dream.
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What an inspiration
- By Anonymous on 27-06-2024
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Unlocking the Ancient Secrets to Healing
- Narrated by: Gail Lynn, Christi Bowen, Adam Lofbomm
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 12-01-2023
- Language: English
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If It Sounds Like a Quack...
- A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine
- By: Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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A Pulitzer Prize finalist's bizarre journalistic journey through the world of fringe medicine, filled with leeches, baking soda IVs, and, according to at least one person, zombies. It's no secret that American health care has become too costly and politicized to help everyone. So where do you...
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If It Sounds Like a Quack...
- A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 04-04-2023
- Language: English
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Mad in America
- Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
- By: Robert Whitaker
- Narrated by: Chris Kayser, Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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An updated edition of the classic history of schizophrenia in America, which gives voice to generations of patients who suffered through "cures" that only deepened their suffering and impaired their hope of recovery Schizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the...
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Brutal truth. a very courageous book.
- By Kindle Customer on 09-10-2024
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Mad in America
- Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
- Narrated by: Chris Kayser, Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 27-08-2024
- 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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Maladies of Empire
- How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
- By: Jim Downs
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
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Most stories of medical progress come with ready-made heroes. John Snow traced the origins of London's 1854 cholera outbreak to a water pump, leading to the birth of epidemiology. Florence Nightingale's contributions to the care of soldiers in the Crimean War transformed hospitals from crucibles of infection to sanctuaries of recuperation. Yet histories of individual innovators ignore many key sources of medical knowledge.
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Maladies of Empire
- How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 10-05-2022
- Language: English
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Mania
- A Short History of Bipolar Disorder
- By: David Healy
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
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Beginning with the origins of the concept of mania—and the term maniac—in ancient Greek and Roman civilizations, renowned psychiatrist David Healy examines how concepts of mental afflictions evolved as scientific breakthroughs established connections between brain function and mental illness. Healy recounts the changing definitions of mania through the centuries, explores the effects of new terminology and growing public awareness of the disease on culture and society, and examines the rise of psychotropic treatments and pharmacological marketing over the past four decades.
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Mania
- A Short History of Bipolar Disorder
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 20-06-2023
- Language: English
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What Doctors Feel
- How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine
- By: Danielle Ofri MD
- Narrated by: Andi Arndt
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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“A fascinating journey into the heart and mind of a physician” that explores the doctor-patient relationship, the flaws in our health care system, and how doctors’ emotions impact medical care (Boston Globe) While much has been written about the minds and methods of the medical...
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What Doctors Feel
- How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine
- Narrated by: Andi Arndt
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 29-06-2021
- Language: English
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