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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

    • The Science, Culture, and History of Breast Cancer in America
    • De: Kate Pickert
    • Narrado por: Kate Pickert
    • Duración: 9 h y 3 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-04-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 35 calificaciones
    • As a health-care journalist, Kate Pickert knew the emotional highs and lows of medical treatment well - but always from a distance, through the stories of her subjects. That is, until she was unexpectedly diagnosed with an aggressive type of breast cancer....

    Precio regular: $25.19

    • How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It
    • De: Jason Karlawish
    • Narrado por: Jason Karlawish, Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Duración: 13 h y 41 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-23-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 36 calificaciones
    • Rich in science, history, and characters, The Problem of Alzheimer's takes us inside laboratories, patients' homes, caregivers’ support groups, progressive care communities, and Jason Karlawish's own practice at the Penn Memory Center....

    Precio regular: $21.49

    • A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize
    • De: Sean B. Carroll
    • Narrado por: Byron Wagner
    • Duración: 17 h y 6 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-20-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 calificaciones
    • The never-before-told account of the intersection of some of the most insightful minds of the 20th century, and a fascinating look at how war, resistance, and friendship can catalyze genius....

    Precio regular: $24.95

    • 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: $24.19

    • Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis
    • De: Sherwin B. Nuland
    • Narrado por: Peter Lerman
    • Duración: 5 h y 15 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-30-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 calificaciones
    • Ignác Semmelweis is remembered for the now-commonplace notion that doctors must wash their hands before examining patients. In mid-19th century Vienna, however, this was a subversive idea. Semmelweis discovered that doctors themselves were spreading the disease....

    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

    • Ten Men and Women Who Reinvented American Medicine
    • De: Ralph H. Hruban, Will Linder
    • Narrado por: Tristan Morris
    • Duración: 9 h y 6 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-14-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 calificación
    • Johns Hopkins University, one of the preeminent medical schools in the nation today, has played a unique role in the history of medicine. When it first opened its doors in 1893, medicine was a rough-and-ready trade. It would soon evolve into a rigorous science....

    Precio regular: $21.49

    • A History of Mind-Body Medicine
    • De: Anne Harrington
    • Narrado por: Christina Traister
    • Duración: 10 h y 14 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-16-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 calificaciones
    • When it comes to healing, we believe we must look beyond doctors and drugs; we must look within ourselves. But why? From psychoanalysis to the placebo effect to meditation, this vibrant cultural history describes mind-body healing as rooted in a patchwork of stories....

    Precio regular: $25.00

    • The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics
    • De: Stephen Coss
    • Narrado por: Bob Souer
    • Duración: 9 h y 46 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-22-16
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 125 calificaciones
    • During the worst smallpox epidemic in Boston history, Puritan Cotton Mather convinced Doctor Zabdiel Boylston to try a procedure that he believed would prevent death....

    Precio regular: $15.47

    • Medicine & Inventions
    • De: iMinds
    • Narrado por: Luca James Lee
    • Duración: 7 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-11-09
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 calificaciones
    • Learn about the invention of The Internet with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series....

    Precio regular: $1.95

    • En busca de la comida perfecta [A Natural History of Four Meals]
    • De: Michael Pollan, Raúl Nagore Ucle - traductor
    • Narrado por: Sebastián Rosas
    • Duración: 20 h y 11 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-11-23
    • Idioma: Español
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 calificación
    • Michael Pollan originales y elocuentes de Estados Unidos, aborda la aparentemente sencilla pregunta de qué deberíamos comer, ofreciéndonos unas respuestas que tienen profundas implicaciones políticas, económicas, psicológicas e incluso morales para todos nosotros....

    Precio regular: $20.69

    • 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....

    Precio regular: $20.25

    • A Mutant Gene and the Quest to Cure Cancer at the Genetic Level
    • De: Jessica Wapner
    • Narrado por: Heather Henderson
    • Duración: 9 h y 43 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-14-13
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 107 calificaciones
    • Almost daily, headlines announce newly discovered links between cancers and their genetic causes. Science journalist Jessica Wapner vividly relates the backstory behind those headlines....

    Precio regular: $21.04

    • How Microbes Shaped Our History
    • De: Dorothy H. Crawford
    • Narrado por: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Duración: 7 h y 52 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-30-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 calificaciones
    • Ever since we started huddling together in communities, the story of human history has been inextricably entwined with the story of microbes. They have evolved and spread amongst us, shaping our culture through infection, disease, and pandemic....

    Precio regular: $14.61

    • 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

    • 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....

    Precio regular: $30.09

    • 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....

    Precio regular: $13.75

    • The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It
    • De: Gina Kolata
    • Narrado por: Gina Kolata
    • Duración: 6 h y 14 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-13-01
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 487 calificaciones
    • Feeling feverish, tired, or achy? Listening to Gina Kolata's engrossing account of the 1918 Influenza epidemic is sure to give you the chills...

    Precio regular: $19.95

    • A Social History of Kidney Failure and Its Treatments
    • De: Paul Kimmel
    • Narrado por: Lane Hakel
    • Duración: 17 h y 59 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-12-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 calificaciones
    • The kidney is an extraordinary organ—in many ways the regulator, the metronome, the keeper of the human body’s delicate equilibrium. On a given day, minute by minute, it purifies the body of toxins it encounters from diet, climate, activity, and injury. It allows us to move in the world....

    Precio regular: $18.87