History Medicine Science

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    • An Olfactory History of 19th-Century Urban America (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
    • De: Melanie A. Kiechle
    • Narrado por: Dana Brewer Harris
    • Duración: 10 h y 22 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-22-17
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 calificaciones
    • What did 19th-century cities smell like? And how did odors matter in the formation of a modern environmental consciousness? Smell Detectives follows the 19th-century Americans who used their noses to make sense of the sanitary challenges caused by rapid urban and industrial growth....

    Precio regular: $24.95

    • De: Paul Collins
    • Narrado por: Kevin Kenerly
    • Duración: 8 h y 18 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 07-17-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 47 calificaciones
    • On November 23, 1849, in the heart of Boston, one of the city's richest men vanished. Dr. George Parkman, a Brahmin who owned much of Boston's West End, was last seen that afternoon visiting his alma mater, Harvard Medical School....

    Precio regular: $17.16

    • De: Louis Pasteur
    • Narrado por: Leo McQueen
    • Duración: 15 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-08-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 calificaciones
    • The great scientists Louis Pasteur (1822-1893) and Joseph Lister (1827-1912) revolutionized medical practice in the 19th century. Pasteur's discovery of the cause of fermentation formed the basis of modern germ theory while Lister developed antiseptic surgical methods based on that....

    Precio regular: $1.95

    • De: Sandeep Jauhar
    • Narrado por: Alex McMorran
    • Duración: 8 h y 9 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-27-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 calificaciones
    • The spark of life, fount of emotion, house of the soul - the heart lies at the centre of every facet of our existence. It’s so bound up in our deepest feelings that it can even suffer such distress from emotional trauma as to physically change shape....

    Precio regular: $32.68

    • Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes
    • De: James Doucet-Battle
    • Narrado por: Terrence Kidd
    • Duración: 7 h y 32 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-20-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 calificaciones
    • Sweetness in the Blood provides an ethnographic picture of biotechnology's framings of Type 2 diabetes risk and race....

    Precio regular: $17.19

    • John Cade, Lithium and the Taming of Bipolar Disorder
    • De: Greg de Moore, Ann Westmore
    • Narrado por: Paul English
    • Duración: 10 h y 54 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-23-17
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 19 calificaciones
    • Lithium is the penicillin story of mental health - the first effective medication discovered for the treatment of a mental illness - and it is, without doubt, Australia's greatest mental health story....

    Precio regular: $19.49

    • The Journey of a Pioneer Heart Surgeon
    • De: Stuart Jamieson
    • Narrado por: Steven Crossley Crossley
    • Duración: 10 h y 47 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-12-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 calificaciones
    • An adventurous, riveting account, and ever-attentive to the patients for whom he was the best chance, Close to the Sun is Stuart Jamieson's story of four decades of advances in heart surgery....

    Precio regular: $21.49

    • How Medicine Fails Women
    • De: Marieke Bigg
    • Narrado por: Daphne Kouma
    • Duración: 9 h y 17 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-16-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 calificación
    • Dr Marieke Bigg explores the past, present and future of the sexism inherent in medicine and medical research—and how to change it....

    Precio regular: $31.94

    • De: Mark Woolhouse
    • Narrado por: Mark Elstob
    • Duración: 8 h y 53 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-24-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 calificaciones
    • 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.

    Precio regular: $18.12

    • The Hidden History of Medicine and How It Became a Commodity
    • De: Karen Bloom Gevirtz
    • Narrado por: Rachel Handshaw
    • Duración: 8 h y 25 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-07-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • sin calificaciones
    • A revelatory history of medicine, The Apothecary’s Wife challenges the myths of the triumph of science and instead uncovers the fascinating truth. Drawing on a vast body of archival material, Karen Bloom Gevirtz depicts the extraordinary cast of characters who brought about this transformation.

    Precio regular: $15.26

    • De: Jaime Breitnauer
    • Narrado por: Gabrielle Baker
    • Duración: 6 h y 53 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-09-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 calificaciones
    • Where did Spanish flu come from, and what can the possible sites of origin tell us today? This book looks at how Spanish flu changed the focus of scientific thought from eugenics to the creation of public health, and how it unfolded across each continent....

    Precio regular: $13.99

    • A Doctor, a Donor, and the Incredible Breakthrough that Saved Millions of Babies
    • De: Julian Guthrie
    • Narrado por: Ann Richardson
    • Duración: 8 h y 14 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-08-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 calificaciones
    • In Good Blood, best-selling writer Julian Guthrie tells the gripping tale of the race to cure a horrible affliction known as Rh disease that stalked families and caused a mother’s immune system to attack her own unborn child....

    Precio regular: $13.97

    • A Warts-and-All Book Full of Fun Facts and Disgusting Discoveries
    • De: Jelena Poleksic, Neon Squid
    • Narrado por: Tim Campbell
    • Duración: 45 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-04-25
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • sin calificaciones
    • WARNING: NOT FOR THE FAINT-HEARTED. This revolting history of medicine through the ages by Jelena Poleksic is full of blood, guts, and gore!

    Precio regular: $1.53

    • De: DK
    • Narrado por: Jonathan Oliver
    • Duración: 16 h y 59 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-04-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 calificación
    • How are illnesses diagnosed? When did the first successful organ transplant take place? Why are some pandemics so deadly? The Medicine Book cuts through the jargon and is packed with pithy explanations of important milestones in medical history to untangle knotty concepts....

    Precio regular: $23.24

  • Precio regular: $19.95

    • De: Alice A. Bailey
    • Narrado por: Clay Lomakayu
    • Duración: 3 h y 52 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-26-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 calificaciones
    • Thinkers everywhere are conscious of two things, first, that the region of mystery has never before been so clearly defined, and secondly, that that region can be entered more easily than has hitherto been the case....

    Precio regular: $14.95

  • Precio regular: $19.95

    • How Deadly Toxins Changed Our Lives Forever
    • De: Stanley Feldman
    • Narrado por: Lynsey Frost
    • Duración: 5 h y 34 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-10-13
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 calificaciones
    • In the 16th century, when explorers travelled deep into the jungles of South America in search of gold and spices, they brought back many colourful tales of their adventures....

    Precio regular: $10.89

    • How Contagion, Class and Captivity Shape Us, from Cholera to Covid-19
    • De: Edna Bonhomme
    • Narrado por: Veronique Olin
    • Duración: 10 h y 22 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-13-25
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • sin calificaciones
    • A History of the World in Six Plagues is a timely examination of the role that confinement has played in fostering and hindering epidemics....

    Precio regular: $18.15

  • Precio regular: $14.95

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