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Change Is Possible
- Reflections on the History of Global Health
- By: William H. Foege, Paul Elish, Alison T. Hoover, and others
- Narrated by: Doug McDonald
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
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In Change Is Possible, public health legend William H. Foege and five coauthors chronicle the failures and successes of global health through the modern age, including the massive impacts of colonialism, religious groups, philanthropies, politics, NGOs, and more. Foege, who has served in local, national, and international public health contexts is uniquely qualified to reflect on the history of global health. He and his Rollins School of Public Health coauthors explain why colonialism has been the greatest disaster for global health, whereas military medicine may have been its greatest asset.
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Change Is Possible
- Reflections on the History of Global Health
- Narrated by: Doug McDonald
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 24-01-2025
- Language: English
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Chasing the Intact Mind
- How the Severely Autistic and Intellectually Disabled Were Excluded from the Debates That Affect Them Most
- By: Amy S.F. Lutz
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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In Chasing the Intact Mind, Lutz traces the history of the intact mind concept, explaining how it influences current policy and practice affecting those with autism.
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Chasing the Intact Mind
- How the Severely Autistic and Intellectually Disabled Were Excluded from the Debates That Affect Them Most
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 21-11-2023
- Language: English
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La enfermedad y sus metáforas: El sida y sus metáforas [Illness as Metaphor: AIDS and Its Metaphors]
- By: Susan Sontag, Mario Muchnik Clemans - translator
- Narrated by: Valentina Latyna
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
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Este volumen reúne los ensayos, La enfermedad y sus metáforas y El sida y sus metáforas, que siguen ejerciendo una influencia enorme en la reflexión médica y en las vidas de miles de pacientes y cuidadores.
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La enfermedad y sus metáforas: El sida y sus metáforas [Illness as Metaphor: AIDS and Its Metaphors]
- Narrated by: Valentina Latyna
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 20-04-2023
- Language: Spanish
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O imperador de todos os males [The Emperor of All Maladies]
- Uma biografia do câncer [A Biography of Cancer]
- By: Siddhartha Mukherjee, Berilo Vargas
- Narrated by: Romis Ferreira
- Length: 27 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Com a precisão de um biólogo, a visão de um historiador e a paixão de um biógrafo, o oncologista Siddhartha Mukherjee traça uma biografia detalhada do câncer, do primeiro registro às mais avançadas pesquisas, últimas descobertas e expectativas para o futuro, abrindo caminho para a desmitificação dessa doença tão temida.
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O imperador de todos os males [The Emperor of All Maladies]
- Uma biografia do câncer [A Biography of Cancer]
- Narrated by: Romis Ferreira
- Length: 27 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 28-09-2023
- Language: Portuguese
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Troubled by Faith
- Insanity and the Supernatural in the Age of the Asylum
- By: Owen Davies
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
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The birth of psychiatry in the early nineteenth-century fundamentally changed how madness was categorized and understood. A century on, their conceptions of mental illness continue to influence our views today. Beliefs and behavior were divided up into the pathological and the healthy. The influence of religion and the supernatural became significant measures of insanity in individuals, countries, and cultures. Troubled by Faith explores these ideas about the supernatural across society through the prism of medical history.
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Troubled by Faith
- Insanity and the Supernatural in the Age of the Asylum
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 30-11-2023
- Language: English
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More, Please
- On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for ""Enough""
- By: Emma Specter
- Narrated by: Erin deWard
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
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ONE OF TIME 100'S MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2024 A DEBUTIFUL BEST BOOK OF 2024 FEATURED IN NYLON W MAGAZINE GLAMOUR BOOK RIOT HEYALMA BUSTLE ELECTRIC LITERATURE ROMPER AND MORE! ""Tender, funny, angry, and sharp as hell. This is an essential book for anyone with...
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More, Please
- On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for ""Enough""
- Narrated by: Erin deWard
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 09-07-2024
- Language: English
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Out Cold
- A Chilling Descent into the Macabre, Controversial, Lifesaving History of Hypothermia
- By: Phil Jaekl
- Narrated by: Matt Kugler
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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“A fascinating look into the strange and sometimes unbelievable history of hypothermic medicine. Jaekl weaves together a story that is part history lesson and part science thriller. This is truly a must-read for any fan of science and science fiction!” —Douglas Talk, MD/MPH, chief medical...
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Out Cold
- A Chilling Descent into the Macabre, Controversial, Lifesaving History of Hypothermia
- Narrated by: Matt Kugler
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 01-06-2021
- Language: English
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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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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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Slouch
- Posture Panic in Modern America
- By: Beth Linker
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
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In 1995, a scandal erupted when the New York Times revealed that the Smithsonian possessed a century’s worth of nude “posture” photos of college students. In this riveting history, Beth Linker tells why these photos were only a small part of the incredible story of twentieth-century America’s largely forgotten posture panic—a decades-long episode in which it was widely accepted as scientific fact that Americans were suffering from an epidemic of bad posture, with potentially catastrophic health consequences.
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Slouch
- Posture Panic in Modern America
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 09-04-2024
- Language: English
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Booster Shots
- The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncertain Future of Children's Health
- By: Adam Ratner MD MPH
- Narrated by: Adam Ratner MD MPH
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
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A pediatrician and infectious disease specialist warns of the resurgence of measles, the antivaccine movement, and how we can prepare for the next pandemic Every single child diagnosed with measles represents a system failure—an inexcusable unforced error. The technology to prevent essentially...
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Booster Shots
- The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncertain Future of Children's Health
- Narrated by: Adam Ratner MD MPH
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 11-02-2025
- Language: English
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The Year the World Went Mad
- By: Mark Woolhouse
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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In January 2020, leading epidemiologist Professor Mark Woolhouse learned of a new virus taking hold in China. He immediately foresaw a hard road ahead for the entire world, and emailed the Chief Medical Officer of Scotland warning that the UK should urgently begin preparations. A few days later he received a polite reply stating only that everything was under control.
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Enlightening about Covid!
- By Kindle Customer on 17-07-2022
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The Year the World Went Mad
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 24-02-2022
- Language: English
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Damnation Island
- Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
- By: Stacy Horn
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
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Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell's Island. There, over the next hundred years, the city would build a lunatic asylum, prison, hospital, workhouse, and almshouse. Stacy Horn has crafted a compelling and chilling narrative told through the stories of the poor souls sent to Blackwell's, as well as the period's city officials, reformers, and journalists (including the famous Nellie Bly). Damnation Island re-creates what daily life was like on the island....
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Damnation Island
- Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 15-05-2018
- Language: English
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The American Plague
- The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, The Epidemic That Shaped Our History
- By: Molly Caldwell Crosby
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
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In 1900, the U.S. sent three doctors to Cuba to discover how yellow fever was spread. There, they launched one of history's most controversial human studies. Compelling and terrifying, The American Plague depicts the story of yellow fever and its reign in this country - and in Africa, where even today it strikes thousands every year. With "arresting tales of heroism," it is a story as much about the nature of human beings as it is about the nature of disease.
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The American Plague
- The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, The Epidemic That Shaped Our History
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 05-12-2017
- Language: English
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The Fever
- Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
- By: Sonia Shah
- Narrated by: Maha Chehlaoui
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
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In recent years, malaria has emerged as a cause célèbre for voguish philanthropists. Bill Gates, Bono, and Laura Bush are only a few of the personalities who have lent their names - and opened their pocketbooks - in hopes of curing the disease. Still, in a time when every emergent disease inspires waves of panic, why aren’t we doing more to eradicate one of our oldest foes? And how does a parasitic disease that we’ve known how to prevent for more than a century still infect 500 million people every year, killing nearly 1 million of them?
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The Fever
- Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
- Narrated by: Maha Chehlaoui
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 11-03-2013
- Language: English
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And If I Perish
- Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II
- By: Evelyn M. Monahan, Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 21 hrs and 56 mins
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In World War II, 59,000 women voluntarily risked their lives for their country as US Army nurses. For more than half a century these women's experiences remained untold, almost without reference in books, historical societies, or military archives. After years of research and hundreds of hours of interviews, Evelyn M. Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee have created a dramatic narrative that at last brings to light the critical role that women played throughout the war.
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And If I Perish
- Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 21 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 24-03-2020
- Language: English
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Subjected to Science
- Human Experimentation in America before the Second World War
- By: Susan E. Lederer
- Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
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Long before the U.S. government began conducting secret radiation and germ-warfare experiments, and long before the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, medical professionals had introduced—and hotly debated the ethics of—the use of human subjects in medical experiments. In Subjected to Science, Susan Lederer provides the first full-length history of biomedical research with human subjects in the earlier period, from 1890 to 1940.
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Subjected to Science
- Human Experimentation in America before the Second World War
- Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 16-04-2024
- Language: English
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Arrowsmith
- By: Sinclair Lewis
- Narrated by: John McDonough
- Length: 20 hrs and 41 mins
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Martin Arrowsmith is fascinated by science and medicine. As a boy, he immerses himself in Gray’s Anatomy. In medical school, he soaks up knowledge from his mentor, a renowned bacteriologist. But soon he is urged to focus on politics and promotions rather than his research. Even as Martin progresses from doctor to public health official and noted pathologist, he still yearns to devote his time to pure science.
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Arrowsmith
- Narrated by: John McDonough
- Length: 20 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 23-01-2012
- Language: English
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Close to the Sun
- The Journey of a Pioneer Heart Surgeon
- By: Stuart Jamieson
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley Crossley
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
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Stuart Jamieson's story is the story of four decades of advances in heart surgery. Taut, elegantly crafted, and ever-attentive to the patients for whom he was the last best chance, Close to the Sun is an adventurous, riveting account based on the experience of over 40,000 heart surgeries, where everything was on the line every moment in the O.R.
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My Gratitude
- By Roy on 05-03-2023
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Close to the Sun
- The Journey of a Pioneer Heart Surgeon
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley Crossley
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 12-03-2019
- Language: English
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This Book May Cause Side Effects
- Why Our Minds Are Making Us Sick
- By: Helen Pilcher
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
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In this revelatory study, neuroscientist Helen Pilcher explores the hidden impact of the "nocebo effect"—the placebo's evil twin. Medical studies have proven the nocebo effect to cause pain, nausea, paralysis, seizures, and even blindness. The nocebo effect impacts how we grow sick and grow old, explains why people who don't have food allergies have dietary intolerances, and why adults and teenagers are equally susceptible to catching tics through social media.
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This Book May Cause Side Effects
- Why Our Minds Are Making Us Sick
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 07-05-2026
- Language: English
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