Health Care History

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    • Don Thomas, Marrow Transplantation, and the Cell Therapy Revolution
    • De: Dr. Fred Appelbaum
    • Narrado por: Nathan Agin
    • Duración: 11 h y 50 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-03-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 calificaciones
    • Dr. Frederick R. Appelbaum tells a sweeping biography of the visionary behind bone marrow transplantation and the story of the diseases cured by Don Thomas's discovery....

    Precio regular: $18.94

    • The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
    • De: Adam Rutherford
    • Narrado por: Greg Patmore
    • Duración: 7 h y 29 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-21-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 calificaciones
    • Control is a book about what geneticist Adam Rutherford calls “a defining idea of the twentieth century.” Inspired by Darwin’s ideas about evolution, eugenics arose in Victorian England as a theory for improving the British population, and quickly spread to America....

    Precio regular: $11.87

    • Patient Safety and the Middle-Managing of American Medicine
    • De: Robert L. Wears, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe
    • Narrado por: Mike Lenz
    • Duración: 7 h y 12 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-02-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 calificaciones
    • Still Not Safe is the story of the rise of the patient - safety movement - and how an "epidemic" of medical errors was derived from a reality that didn't support such a characterization....

    Precio regular: $21.49

    • Overlooked to Empowered: A Guide for Chronically Ill Patients Who Refuse to Settle
    • De: Kristina Kelly
    • Narrado por: Kristina Kelly
    • Duración: 6 h y 13 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-06-25
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 calificaciones
    • You’re sick, tired, and stuck navigating a healthcare system that feels impossible to crack. The referrals lead nowhere, wait times are endless, and you’re constantly dismissed by doctors who make you feel like it’s all in your head.

    Precio regular: $19.95

    • Our Greatest Triumphs in the Race to Cure Humanity's Deadliest Diseases
    • De: Andrew Lam
    • Narrado por: Jason Vu
    • Duración: 10 h y 42 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-13-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 calificaciones
    • Dr. Andrew Lam, an award-winning author and retinal surgeon, distills the long arc of medical progress down to the crucial moments that were responsible for the world's greatest medical miracles....

    Precio regular: $21.49

    • The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South
    • De: Chip Jones
    • Narrado por: JD Jackson
    • Duración: 12 h y 41 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-18-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 calificaciones
    • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this “startling...powerful” (Kirkus Reviews) investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race....

    Precio regular: $20.24

  • Precio regular: $44.99

    • The Medicine That Saved Millions and Could Have Ended the Pandemic
    • De: Pierre Kory
    • Narrado por: Troy Wolfe
    • Duración: 10 h y 14 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-29-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 160 calificaciones
    • Ivermectin is a dirty word in the media. The drug has been derided and declared useless. Doctors have earnestly recorded pleas asking those afflicted with COVID-19 not to take the drug. But why? The War on Ivermectin is the personal and professional narrative of Dr. Pierre Kory....

    Precio regular: $18.19

    • The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic
    • De: Gay Salisbury, Laney Salisbury
    • Narrado por: Barrett Whitener
    • Duración: 9 h y 35 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-25-03
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 452 calificaciones
    • The thrilling account of a dog sled race across Alaska in 1925 to head off a deadly epidemic...

    Precio regular: $16.16

    • 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

    • 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 10 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.

    Precio regular: $25.19

    • How an Elusive Ideal Has Transformed Science, Politics, and Everyday Life
    • De: Steven Epstein
    • Narrado por: Steve Menasche
    • Duración: 15 h y 53 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-25-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
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    • In this book Steven Epstein analyzes the rise, proliferation, uptake, and sprawling consequences of sexual health activities, offering critical tools to assess those consequences, expand capacities for collective decision making, and identify pathways that promote social justice....

    Precio regular: $21.49

    • A History
    • De: Thomas Helling MD
    • Narrado por: Mack Sanderson
    • Duración: 11 h y 23 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-01-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 86 calificaciones
    • A startling narrative, The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine reveals the impressive medical and surgical advances that quickly developed as solutions to the horrors unleashed by World War I....

    Precio regular: $13.97

    • Exposing the Great Reset, Lockdowns, Vaccine Passports, and the New Normal
    • De: Dr. Joseph Mercola, Ronnie Cummins
    • Narrado por: Nolan Chase
    • Duración: 7 h y 55 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-29-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,302 calificaciones
    • Since early 2020, the world has experienced a series of catastrophic events - a global pandemic caused by a so-called novel coronavirus; international lockdowns and border closings causing widespread business closures, economic collapse, and massive unemployment....

    Precio regular: $19.95

    • 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.

    Precio regular: $13.99

    • Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
    • De: Sonia Shah
    • Narrado por: Sonia Shah
    • Duración: 9 h y 34 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-23-16
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 383 calificaciones
    • Interweaving history, original reportage, and personal narrative, Pandemic explores the origin of epidemics, drawing parallels between cholera and the new pathogens that stalk humankind today....

    Precio regular: $18.00

    • Galen in the Roman Empire
    • De: Susan P. Mattern
    • Narrado por: James Patrick Cronin
    • Duración: 10 h y 46 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-06-14
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 62 calificaciones
    • Galen of Pergamum (A.D. 129-ca. 216) began his remarkable career tending to wounded gladiators in provincial Asia Minor....

    Precio regular: $24.95

    • 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....

    Precio regular: $18.88

    • The Harrowing Journey of a Cruise Ship at the Dawn of a Pandemic
    • De: Michael Smith, Jonathan Franklin
    • Narrado por: George Newbern
    • Duración: 8 h y 17 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-21-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 97 calificaciones
    • In early 2020, the world was on edge. An ominous virus was spreading on different continents, and no one knew what the coming weeks would bring. Far from the hot spots, the cruise ship Zaandam, owned by Holland America, was preparing to sail from Buenos Aires, Argentina....

    Precio regular: $18.00

    • Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis
    • De: Thomas Goetz
    • Narrado por: Donald Corren
    • Duración: 9 h y 55 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-03-14
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 587 calificaciones
    • The riveting history of tuberculosis, the world’s most lethal disease, the two men whose lives it tragically intertwined, and the birth of medical science....

    Precio regular: $21.49