Health Care History

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    • A Cultural History of Hypochondria
    • De: Caroline Crampton
    • Narrado por: Caroline Crampton
    • Duración: 9 h y 23 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-23-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 calificaciones
    • Caroline Crampton’s life was upended at the age of seventeen, when she was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a relatively rare blood cancer. After years of invasive treatment, she was finally given the all clear. But being cured of the cancer didn’t mean she felt well.

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    • The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, The Epidemic That Shaped Our History
    • De: Molly Caldwell Crosby
    • Narrado por: Paul Woodson
    • Duración: 8 h y 29 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 12-05-17
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 149 calificaciones
    • 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....

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    • The Future Is Calling and It's Better Than You Think
    • De: Tom Lawry
    • Narrado por: Rachael Doolen
    • Duración: 4 h y 36 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-21-25
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 calificaciones
    • Whether a patient, health consumer, physician, nurse, health executive, or elected official, somewhere deep in our brains is this simple truth: the American health system isn’t working, and it will only get worse if we don’t do something about it.

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    • How the Battle Against a Polio Epidemic Revolutionized Modern Medical Care
    • De: Hannah Wunsch
    • Narrado por: Emily Durante
    • Duración: 10 h y 10 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-30-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 calificaciones
    • The Autumn Ghost will leave listeners in awe of the courage of those who battled the polio epidemic, and grateful for the modern medical care they pioneered....

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    • The Promise of Patient-Centered Biotechnology
    • De: James A. Geraghty
    • Narrado por: Scott Wallace
    • Duración: 7 h y 39 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-02-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 calificaciones
    • Jim Geraghty has been a passionate participant in the orphan drug revolution since its inception―a leader in the field as a strategy consultant, biotechnology executive, and venture entrepreneur. His book tells deeply personal stories of patients and parents willing to risk untried new therapies....

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    • Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum
    • De: Mab Segrest
    • Narrado por: Hillary Huber, Mab Segrest
    • Duración: 15 h y 14 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-14-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 calificaciones
    • In December 1841, the Georgia State Lunatic, Idiot, and Epileptic Asylum was founded. A hundred years later, it had become the largest insane asylum in the world with over 10,000 patients. Administrations of Lunacy tells the story of this iconic and infamous southern institution....

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    • How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
    • De: Jonathan Eig
    • Narrado por: Gayle Hendrix
    • Duración: 12 h y 26 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 12-30-14
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 254 calificaciones
    • The fascinating story of one of the most important scientific discoveries of the twentieth century....

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    • The Forgotten Epidemic That Became Medicine’s Greatest Mystery
    • De: Molly Caldwell Crosby
    • Narrado por: Christian Rummel
    • Duración: 6 h y 31 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-04-13
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 395 calificaciones
    • A fascinating look at a bizarre, forgotten epidemic from the national best-selling author of The American Plague....

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    • The Hidden History of Medicine and How It Became a Commodity
    • De: Karen Bloom Gevirtz
    • Narrado por: Elisabeth Lagelee
    • Duración: 9 h y 8 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-12-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
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    • Contrary to the familiar story, medication did not improve during the Scientific Revolution. Yet somehow, between 1650 and 1740, the domestic female and the physician switched places in the cultural consciousness.

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    • An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
    • De: Siddhartha Mukherjee
    • Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Duración: 16 h y 2 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-03-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 calificaciones
    • From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene, a number one New York Times best seller, comes his most spectacular book yet, about the fundamental unit of life....

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    • An Insiders' Account of the Shocking Medical Experiment Conducted by Government Doctors Against African American Men
    • De: Fred D. Gray
    • Narrado por: David Sadzin
    • Duración: 5 h y 6 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-26-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 calificaciones
    • In 1932, the US Public Health Service recruited 623 African American men from Macon County, Alabama, for a study of "the effects of untreated syphilis in the Negro male". For the next 40 years, these men were denied medical care for this potentially fatal disease....

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    • True Tales of Science, Surgery, and Mystery
    • De: Rob Dunn
    • Narrado por: Robert Fass
    • Duración: 12 h y 6 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-03-15
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 118 calificaciones
    • Thought of as the seat of our soul, then as a mysteriously animated object, the heart is still more a mystery than it is understood....

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    • The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles on Molokai
    • De: John Tayman
    • Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
    • Duración: 15 h y 20 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-27-06
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 266 calificaciones
    • In the best-selling tradition of In the Heart of the Sea, The Colony reveals the untold history of the infamous American leprosy colony on Molokai and of the extraordinary people who struggled to survive under the most horrific circumstances....

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    • How Medicine Changed the End of Life
    • De: Haider Warraich M.D.
    • Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Duración: 12 h y 8 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-07-17
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 calificaciones
    • There is no more universal truth in life than death. No matter who you are, it is certain that one day you will die....

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    • How Germs Made History
    • De: Jonathan Kennedy
    • Narrado por: Jonathan Kennedy
    • Duración: 9 h y 27 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-13-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 calificaciones
    • This humbling and revelatory book shows how infectious disease has shaped humanity at every stage, from the first success of Homo sapiens over the equally intelligent Neanderthals to the fall of Rome and the rise of Islam....

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    • How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
    • De: Jim Downs
    • Narrado por: David Colacci
    • Duración: 9 h y 2 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-10-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 calificaciones
    • 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....

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    • A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear
    • De: Seth Mnookin
    • Narrado por: Dan John Miller
    • Duración: 10 h y 44 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-12-11
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 280 calificaciones
    • [A] gripping scientific detective story about how grassroots radicals, snake-oil salesmen, and cynical journalists have perpetrated the biggest health-scare hoax of all time.....

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    • Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia
    • De: Elizabeth Catte
    • Narrado por: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Duración: 6 h y 18 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-20-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 calificaciones
    • Between 1927 and 1979, more than 8,000 people were involuntarily sterilized in five hospitals across the state of Virginia. From this plain and terrible fact springs Elizabeth Catte's Pure America, a sweeping, unsparing history of eugenics in Virginia....

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    • Hate and Compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS
    • De: Samuel Kline Cohn Jr.
    • Narrado por: David Colacci
    • Duración: 29 h y 38 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-16-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 28 calificaciones
    • Epidemics challenges a dominant hypothesis in the study of epidemics, that invariably across time and space, epidemics provoked hatred, blaming of the "other", and victimizing bearers of epidemic diseases....

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    • Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering
    • De: Melanie Thernstrom
    • Narrado por: Laural Merlington
    • Duración: 11 h y 30 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-17-10
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 152 calificaciones
    • Each of us will know physical pain in our lives, but none of us knows when it will come or how long it will stay.....

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