Health Care History

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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....

    Precio regular: $23.24 o 1 crédito

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    • A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World
    • De: Elinor Cleghorn
    • Narrado por: Hanako Footman
    • Duración: 14 h y 5 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-10-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 calificaciones
    • In this ground-breaking history Elinor Cleghorn unpacks the roots of the perpetual misunderstanding, mystification and misdiagnosis of women's bodies, illness and pain....

    Precio regular: $29.03 o 1 crédito

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    • The Extraordinary Story of Our World War I Nurses
    • De: Peter Rees
    • Narrado por: Anna McGahan
    • Duración: 10 h y 47 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-21-16
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 22 calificaciones
    • The harrowing, dramatic and profoundly moving story of the Australian and New Zealand nurses who served in the Great War....

    Precio regular: $19.49 o 1 crédito

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    • America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him and the Age of Flimflam
    • De: Pope Brock
    • Narrado por: Johnny Heller
    • Duración: 8 h y 41 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-18-08
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 252 calificaciones
    • This is the enormously entertaining story of how a fraudulent surgeon made a fortune by inserting goats' testes into impotent American men....

    Precio regular: $15.47 o 1 crédito

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    • De: Steve Parker
    • Narrado por: Laurel Lefkow
    • Duración: 12 h y 29 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-21-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 calificaciones
    • Immerse yourself in the history of medicine - a colorful story of skill, serendipity, trial and error, moments of genius, and dogged determination....

    Precio regular: $20.25 o 1 crédito

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    • One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris
    • De: Mark Honigsbaum
    • Narrado por: John Lee
    • Duración: 13 h y 40 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-09-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 111 calificaciones
    • Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet despite a century of medical progress, viral and bacterial disasters continue to take us by surprise....

    Precio regular: $21.49 o 1 crédito

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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.

    Precio regular: $14.95 o 1 crédito

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    • A Short History of Living Longer
    • De: Steven Johnson
    • Narrado por: Steven Johnson
    • Duración: 8 h y 26 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-11-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 165 calificaciones
    • In 1920, at the end of the last major pandemic, global life expectancy was just over 40 years. Today, in many parts of the world, human beings can expect to live more than 80 years. As a species, we have doubled our life expectancy in just one century....

    Precio regular: $18.00 o 1 crédito

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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....

    Precio regular: $13.75 o 1 crédito

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    • A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
    • De: Luke Dittrich
    • Narrado por: George Newbern
    • Duración: 14 h y 34 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-09-16
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 266 calificaciones
    • In 1953, a 27-year-old factory worker named Henry Molaison - who suffered from severe epilepsy - received a radical new version of the then-common lobotomy, targeting the most mysterious structures in the brain....

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    • On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for ""Enough""
    • De: Emma Specter
    • Narrado por: Erin deWard
    • Duración: 6 h y 56 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 07-09-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 calificaciones
    • An unflinching and deeply reported look at the realities of binge-eating disorder from a rising culture commentator and writer for Vogue.

    Precio regular: $25.19 o 1 crédito

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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....

    Precio regular: $17.19 o 1 crédito

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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....

    Precio regular: $19.34 o 1 crédito

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    • The Natural History of Pain
    • De: Frank T. Vertosick Jr. MD
    • Narrado por: Tom Parks
    • Duración: 9 h y 45 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-13-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 calificaciones
    • A top neurosurgeon and acclaimed author explains the paradox of pain, with fascinating anecdotes on childbirth, migraines, cancer, and more....

    Precio regular: $17.19 o 1 crédito

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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....

    Precio regular: $28.79 o 1 crédito

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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....

    Precio regular: $24.95 o 1 crédito

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    • The Race to Unlock the Mysteries of Parkinson's Disease
    • De: Jon Palfreman
    • Narrado por: Sean Runnette
    • Duración: 7 h y 52 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-15-15
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 392 calificaciones
    • Seven million people worldwide suffer from Parkinson's, and doctors, researchers, and patients continue to hunt for a cure....

    Precio regular: $19.95 o 1 crédito

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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....

    Precio regular: $19.95 o 1 crédito

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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....

    Precio regular: $15.37 o 1 crédito

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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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