Health Care History

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    • Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
    • De: Paul A. Offit MD
    • Narrado por: Greg Tremblay
    • Duración: 7 h y 51 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-04-17
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,689 calificaciones
    • History is filled with brilliant ideas that gave rise to disaster, and this book explores the most fascinating - and significant - missteps....

    Precio regular: $17.16

    • The Untold Story of Psychiatry
    • De: Jeffrey A. Lieberman, Ogi Ogas
    • Narrado por: Graham Corrigan
    • Duración: 9 h y 46 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-10-15
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 271 calificaciones
    • Psychiatry has come a long way since the days of chaining "lunatics" in cold cells and parading them as freakish marvels before a gaping public....

    Precio regular: $25.19

    • Tales from Neurosurgery
    • De: Frank T Vertosick Jr. MD
    • Narrado por: Kirby Heyborne
    • Duración: 8 h y 42 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-06-16
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,902 calificaciones
    • With poignant insight and humor, Frank Vertosick, Jr., MD, describes some of the greatest challenges of his career, including a six-week-old infant with a tumor in her brain and more....

    Precio regular: $14.61

    • A History
    • De: Sandeep Jauhar
    • Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
    • Duración: 8 h y 43 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-18-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 578 calificaciones
    • Cardiologist and best-selling author Sandeep Jauhar tells the colorful and little known story of the doctors who risked their careers and the patients who risked their lives to know and heal our most vital organ....

    Precio regular: $18.60

    • An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling
    • De: Ron Franscell
    • Narrado por: Patty Nieman, Chris Berger
    • Duración: 8 h y 43 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-01-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 227 calificaciones
    • ShadowMan is the pulse-pounding account of the first time in history that the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit created a psychological profile to catch a serial killer....

    Precio regular: $18.00

    • When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far
    • De: Paul A. Offit
    • Narrado por: Tim H. Dixon
    • Duración: 7 h y 8 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-14-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 172 calificaciones
    • An acclaimed medical expert and patient advocate offers an eye-opening look at many common and widely used medical interventions that have been shown to be far more harmful than helpful....

    Precio regular: $18.89

    • Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
    • De: Joshua D. Mezrich
    • Narrado por: Josh Bloomberg
    • Duración: 11 h y 2 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-15-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 270 calificaciones
    • At the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Joshua Mezrich creates life from loss, transplanting organs from one body to another. In this intimate, profoundly moving work, he illuminates the extraordinary field of transplantation that enables this kind of miracle to happen every day....

    Precio regular: $24.29

    • The History of Surgery
    • De: Ira Rutkow MD
    • Narrado por: Gibson Frazier
    • Duración: 15 h y 22 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-08-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 76 calificaciones
    • From a renowned surgeon and historian with five decades of experience comes a remarkable history of surgery’s development—spanning the Stone Age to the present day—blending meticulous medical studies with lively and skillful storytelling....

    Precio regular: $22.49

    • The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
    • De: Sam Kean
    • Narrado por: Henry Leyva
    • Duración: 12 h y 37 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-27-14
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,446 calificaciones
    • The author of the best seller The Disappearing Spoon reveals the secret inner workings of the brain through strange but true stories....

    Precio regular: $28.79

    • The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine
    • De: William Rosen
    • Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
    • Duración: 12 h y 10 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-09-17
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 calificaciones
    • As late as the 1930s, virtually no drug intended for sickness did any good; doctors could set bones, deliver babies, and offer palliative care. That all changed in less than a generation....

    Precio regular: $18.00

    • A Deadly Genetic Disease, a New Era in Science, and the Patients and Families Who Changed Medicine Forever
    • De: Bijal P. Trivedi
    • Narrado por: Deepti Gupta
    • Duración: 20 h y 35 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 12-01-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 128 calificaciones
    • Cystic fibrosis was once a mysterious disease that killed infants and children. Now it could be the key to healing millions with genetic diseases of every type - from Alzheimer's and Parkinson's to diabetes and sickle cell anemia....

    Precio regular: $32.89

    • Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
    • De: Neil Bradbury Ph.D.
    • Narrado por: Derek Perkins
    • Duración: 7 h y 15 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-01-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 202 calificaciones
    • Drawn from historical records and current news headlines, A Taste for Poison weaves together the tales of spurned lovers, shady scientists, medical professionals, and political assassins to show how the precise systems of the body can be impaired to lethal effect....

    Precio regular: $14.99

    • 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 150 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....

    Precio regular: $14.61

    • Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection
    • De: Sam Apple
    • Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
    • Duración: 12 h y 58 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-25-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 184 calificaciones
    • The extraordinary story of the Nazi-era scientific genius who discovered how cancer cells eat - and what it means for how we should....

    Precio regular: $20.25

    • Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System
    • De: Steven Brill
    • Narrado por: Dan Woren
    • Duración: 17 h y 10 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-05-15
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 680 calificaciones
    • America’s Bitter Pill is Steven Brill’s acclaimed book on how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was written, how it is being implemented, and, most important, how it is changing—and failing to change—the rampant abuses in the healthcare industry....

    Precio regular: $22.50

    • How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentlemen Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail
    • De: Stephen Bown
    • Narrado por: Dan Cashman
    • Duración: 7 h y 58 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-06-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 calificaciones
    • From the 15th to the mid-19th centuries, scurvy caused more deaths at sea than storms, shipwrecks, combat, and all other diseases combined. The cure for scurvy ranks among the greatest of military successes, yet its impact on history has mostly been ignored....

    Precio regular: $17.47

    • History, Behavior, Training, Fieldwork, Traveling, and Health Care for Your New GSP Puppy
    • De: Dr. Joanna de Klerk
    • Narrado por: Rebecca Emily
    • Duración: 5 h y 13 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-05-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 calificaciones
    • The German shorthaired pointer, or GSP, is an exceptionally versatile hunting dog that was bred in Germany in the 19th century. Like all pointer breeds, GSPs are very capable of spotting and quietly drawing attention to their quarry....

    Precio regular: $19.95

    • De: William H. McNeill
    • Narrado por: Douglas James
    • Duración: 10 h y 47 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-06-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 calificaciones
    • The history of disease is the history of humankind: an interpretation of the world as seen through the extraordinary impact—political, demographic, ecological, and psychological—of disease on cultures.

    Precio regular: $26.22

    • De: DK
    • Narrado por: Jonathan Oliver
    • Duración: 16 h y 59 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-02-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 calificaciones
    • This audiobook explores big questions like these, explaining the breakthroughs and discoveries that have shaped our modern-day understanding of medicine and helped us protect and promote our health....

    Precio regular: $22.50

    • The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century
    • De: Jasmine Brown
    • Narrado por: Wanda Rush
    • Duración: 7 h y 17 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-24-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 calificaciones
    • Black women physicians’ stories have gone untold for far too long, leaving gaping holes in American medical history, in women’s history, and in black history. It’s time to set the record straight....

    Precio regular: $18.72