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The Empress and the English Doctor
- By: Lucy Ward
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
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No disease sparked as much dread in the 18th century as smallpox. The virus killed millions across the globe, carrying off one in every five victims and disfiguring survivors with tell-tale pitted scars. But one mysterious method offered hope: inoculation, the practice of piercing the skin to insert a drop of infected matter and induce a mild case of smallpox. Those inoculated safely were protected from the ‘Speckled Monster’ and stayed immune for life. Only one problem remained: convincing people to accept the treatment.
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The Empress and the English Doctor
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 15-04-2022
- Language: English
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Miracles We Have Seen
- America's Leading Physicians Share Stories They Can't Forget
- By: Harley Rotbart
- Narrated by: Angela Brazil, Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a book of miracles - medical events witnessed by leading physicians for which there is no reasonable medical explanation, or, if there is, the explanation itself is extraordinary. These dramatic first-person essays detail spectacular serendipities, impossible cures, breathtaking resuscitations, extraordinary awakenings, and recovery from unimaginable disasters. Miracles We Have Seen is a book of inspiration and optimism, and a compelling glimpse into the lives of physicians.
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Yes. I love hearing about miracles!
- By M. Watson on 30-09-2017
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Miracles We Have Seen
- America's Leading Physicians Share Stories They Can't Forget
- Narrated by: Angela Brazil, Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 13-09-2016
- Language: English
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Havana Syndrome
- Mass Psychogenic Illness and the Real Story Behind the Embassy Mystery and Hysteria
- By: Robert E. Bartholomew, Robert W. Baloh
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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In this scientific detective story and a case study in the social construction of mass psychogenic illness, the authors provide dozens of examples of kindred episodes of mass hysteria throughout history, in addition to psychosomatic conditions and even the role of insects in triggering outbreaks.
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Havana Syndrome
- Mass Psychogenic Illness and the Real Story Behind the Embassy Mystery and Hysteria
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 28-09-2021
- Language: English
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The Worst of Evils
- The Fight Against Pain
- By: Thomas Dormandy
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 20 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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This riveting audiobook takes the listener around the globe and through the centuries to discover how different cultures have sought to combat and treat physical pain. With colorful stories and sometimes frightening anecdotes, Dr. Thomas Dormandy describes a checkered progression of breakthroughs, haphazard experiments, ignorant attitudes, and surprising developments in human efforts to control pain.
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Thoroughly enjoyable
- By Miss Amy V on 13-04-2019
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The Worst of Evils
- The Fight Against Pain
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 20 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 15-03-2013
- Language: English
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The Science of Near-Death Experiences
- By: John C. Hagan III
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Abegg
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
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What happens to consciousness during the act of dying? The most compelling answers come from people who almost die and later recall events that occurred while lifesaving resuscitation, emergency care, or surgery was performed. These events are now called near-death experiences (NDEs). As medical and surgical skills improve, innovative procedures can bring back patients who have traveled farther on the path to death than at any other time in history. Physicians and healthcare professionals must learn how to appropriately treat patients who report an NDE.
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Very compelling case for the emergent nonlocal conscious theory
- By Jordan Whittle on 06-03-2024
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The Science of Near-Death Experiences
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Abegg
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 21-06-2019
- Language: English
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Nancy Wake
- A Life from Beginning to End (World War 2 Biographies)
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Length: 55 mins
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Nancy Wake was a brave woman. She risked her life behind enemy lines during the Nazi occupation of France in the Second World War. The Gestapo dubbed her “The White Mouse” for her uncanny ability to evade their traps. When it became too dangerous, she left France—not to flee—but to join the resistance. Before the war, Nancy lived a life of luxury with her husband, a wealthy French industrialist.
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Nancy Wake
- A Life from Beginning to End (World War 2 Biographies)
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Length: 55 mins
- Release date: 20-06-2024
- 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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G.I. Nightingales
- The Army Nurse Corps in World War II
- By: Barbara Brooks Tomblin
- Narrated by: Laura Jennings
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Weaving together information from official sources and personal interviews, Barbara Tomblin gives the first full-length account of the US Army Nurse Corps in the Second World War. She describes how over 60,000 army nurses, all volunteers, cared for sick and wounded American soldiers in every theater of the war, serving in the jungles of the Southwest Pacific, the frozen reaches of Alaska and Iceland, the mud of Italy and northern Europe, or the heat and dust of the Middle East.
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Great book
- By Jacinta on 31-10-2017
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G.I. Nightingales
- The Army Nurse Corps in World War II
- Narrated by: Laura Jennings
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 04-10-2016
- Language: English
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Pandemics
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Christian W. McMillen
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
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Christian W. McMillen provides a concise yet comprehensive account of pandemics throughout human history, illustrating how pandemic disease has shaped history and, at the same time, social behavior has influenced pandemic disease.
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Pandemics
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 02-02-2021
- Language: English
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In Search of Madness
- A Psychiatrist's Travels Through the History of Mental Illness
- By: Brendan Kelly
- Narrated by: Ciaran O'Brien
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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In this fascinating new exploration of mental illness, Professor Brendan Kelly examines ‘madness’ in history and how we have responded to it over the centuries. We travel from the psychiatric institutions of modern India to scientific studies of the brain in Victorian England. We discover the beginnings of formal asylum care and witness the experimental therapies of the cavernous psychiatric hospitals of the 19th and early 20th centuries in Ireland, England, Belgium, Italy, Germany and the United States.
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In Search of Madness
- A Psychiatrist's Travels Through the History of Mental Illness
- Narrated by: Ciaran O'Brien
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 01-06-2022
- 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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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. McNeill’s highly acclaimed work is a brilliant and challenging account of the effects of disease on human history. His sophisticated analysis and detailed grasp of the subject make this book fascinating to listen to.
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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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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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The Curious History of the Heart
- A Cultural and Scientific Journey
- By: Vincent M. Figueredo
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
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For much of recorded history, people considered the heart to be the most important organ in the body. In cultures around the world, the heart—not the brain—was believed to be the location of intelligence, memory, emotion, and the soul. Over time, views on the purpose of the heart have transformed. Modern medicine and science dismissed what was once the king of the organs as a mere blood pump subservient to the brain, yet the heart remains a potent symbol of love and health and an important part of our cultural iconography.
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The Curious History of the Heart
- A Cultural and Scientific Journey
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 13-02-2024
- Language: English
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The Wandering Gene and the Indian Princess
- Race, Religion, and DNA
- By: Jeff Wheelwright
- Narrated by: Eve Bianco
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
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A vibrant young Hispano woman, Shonnie Medina, inherits a breast-cancer mutation known as BRCA1.185delAG. It is a genetic variant characteristic of Jews. The Medinas knew they were descended from Native Americans and Spanish Catholics, but they did not know that they had Jewish ancestry as well. The mutation most likely sprang from Sephardic Jews hounded by the Spanish Inquisition. The discovery of the gene leads to a fascinating investigation of cultural history and modern genetics by Dr. Harry Ostrer and other experts on the DNA of Jewish populations.
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The Wandering Gene and the Indian Princess
- Race, Religion, and DNA
- Narrated by: Eve Bianco
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 08-08-2013
- Language: English
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Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher
- Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul
- By: Brandy Schillace
- Narrated by: Jean Ann Douglass
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
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The “delightfully macabre” (The New York Times) true tale of a brilliant and eccentric surgeon…and his quest to transplant the human soul. In the early days of the Cold War, a spirit of desperate scientific rivalry birthed a different kind of space race: not the race to outer space that we...
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Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher
- Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul
- Narrated by: Jean Ann Douglass
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 02-03-2021
- Language: English
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Administrations of Lunacy
- Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum
- By: Mab Segrest
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber, Mab Segrest
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
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Today, 90 percent of psychiatric beds are located in jails and prisons across the United States, institutions that confine disproportionate numbers of African Americans. After more than a decade of research, the celebrated scholar and activist Mab Segrest locates the deep historical roots of this startling fact, turning her sights on a long-forgotten cauldron of racial ideology: the state mental asylum system in which psychiatry was born and whose influences extend into our troubled present.
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Administrations of Lunacy
- Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber, Mab Segrest
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 14-04-2020
- Language: English
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Contraception
- A Concise History
- By: Donna J. Drucker
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
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The beginning of the modern contraceptive era began in 1882, when Dr. Aletta Jacobs opened the first birth control clinic in Amsterdam. The founding of this facility, and the clinical provision of contraception that it enabled, marked the moment when physicians started to take the prevention of pregnancy seriously as a medical concern. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Donna Drucker traces the history of modern contraception, outlining the development, manufacturing, and use of contraceptive methods from the opening of Dr. Jacobs' clinic to the present.
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Contraception
- A Concise History
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 07-04-2020
- Language: English
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The Right to Pain Relief and Other Deep Roots of the Opioid Epidemic
- By: Mark D. Sullivan, Jane C. Ballantyne
- Narrated by: Justin Price
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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The Right to Pain Relief and Other Deep Roots of the Opioid Epidemic offers a new lens through which to view the opioid epidemic as a consequence of serious misunderstandings of both opioids and pain. Based on their extensive research and experience with chronic pain care, science, ethics, and policy, the authors look beyond the usual villains—pharmaceutical companies and pharmacotherapy distributors—to examine the ethical and scientific concepts about pain that made the opioid epidemic possible.
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The Right to Pain Relief and Other Deep Roots of the Opioid Epidemic
- Narrated by: Justin Price
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 14-03-2023
- Language: English
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Magie der Emotionen
- Vom bekannten Illusionisten Derren Brown
- By: Derren Brown
- Narrated by: Asad Schwarz
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
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Unsere Emotionen spielen eine mächtige Rolle in allem, was wir denken, sagen und tun. In dieser Boot Camp-Serie erkundet Derren Brown gemeinsam mit führenden Verhaltenswissenschaftlern und verschiedenen Experten, wie wir diese kraftvollen und geheimnisvollen Kräfte kontrollieren können, die oft unser rationales Denken übernehmen und uns völlig in die Irre führen. Durch die Steigerung unserer emotionalen Intelligenz können wir unser Leben in jeder erdenklichen Weise verbessern.
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Magie der Emotionen
- Vom bekannten Illusionisten Derren Brown
- Narrated by: Asad Schwarz
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 05-11-2025
- Language: German
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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
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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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