Health Care History

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    • Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
    • By: Deirdre Cooper Owens
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 179 ratings
    • Medical Bondage moves between southern plantations and northern urban centers to reveal how 19th-century American ideas about race, health, and status influenced doctor-patient relationships in sites of healing like slave cabins, medical colleges, and hospitals....

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    • Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich (The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series)
    • By: Thom Hartmann
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Series: The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series
    • Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • Popular progressive radio host and New York Times best-selling author Thom Hartmann reveals how and why attempts to establish affordable universal healthcare in the United States have been thwarted and what we can do to finally make it a reality....

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    • By: Steven Johnson
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,388 ratings
    • This is a thrilling historical account of the worst cholera outbreak in Victorian London and a brilliant exploration of how Dr. John Snow's solution revolutionized the way we think about disease....

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    • A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus
    • By: Bill Wasik, Monica Murphy
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 07-19-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,393 ratings
    • A fresh, fascinating, and often wildly entertaining look at one of mankind’s oldest and most fearsome foes....

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    • A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
    • By: Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 959 ratings
    • What won't we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth? Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine was dosed like Viagra....

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    • The Story of Inflammation, Diet, and Disease
    • By: Shilpa Ravella
    • Narrated by: Suzie Althens
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 10-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • Gastroenterologist Shilpa Ravella takes us on a lyrical quest across time, around the world, and into the body to reveal hidden inflammation at the root of modern disease―and how we can control it....

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    • Close Calls, Cold Cases, and the Mysteries of Medicine
    • By: Brendan Reilly
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,232 ratings
    • An epic story told by a unique voice in Ameri­can medicine, One Doctor describes life-changing experiences in the career of a distinguished physician....

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    • Firsthand Accounts of Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program
    • By: Hal Gold, Yuma Totani - foreword
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 08-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 269 ratings
    • Some of the cruelest deeds of Japan's war in Asia did not occur on the battlefield, but in quiet, antiseptic medical wards in obscure parts of China. Far from front lines and prying eyes, Japanese doctors and their assistants subjected human guinea pigs to gruesome medical experiments....

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    • Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II
    • By: Evelyn M. Monahan, Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 21 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 114 ratings
    • From the North African and Italian campaigns to the liberation of France and the conquest of Germany, Army nurses rose to the demands of war on the front lines with grit, humor, and great heroism. And If I Perish is also a powerful tribute to these women and their inspiring legacy....

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    • The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry
    • By: Paul Starr
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 24 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 114 ratings
    • Considered the definitive history of the American healthcare system, The Social Transformation of American Medicine examines how the roles of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs have evolved over the last two and a half centuries....

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    • Disease and the Course of Human History
    • By: Kyle Harper
    • Narrated by: Tim Fannon
    • Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 88 ratings
    • Plagues upon the Earth tells the story of how pathogenic microbes have been an intimate part of human history from the beginning - and how our deadliest germs and biggest pandemics are the product of our success as a species....

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    • What It Is and What It Isn't
    • By: Florence Nightingale
    • Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
    • Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • These outspoken writings by the founder of modern nursing record fundamentals in the needs of the sick that must be provided in all nursing....

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    • Past, Present, and Future
    • By: Michael B. A. Oldstone
    • Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
    • Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 549 ratings
    • The story of viruses and humanity is a story of fear and ignorance, of grief and heartbreak, and of great bravery and sacrifice. Michael Oldstone tells all these stories as he illuminates the history of the devastating diseases that have tormented humanity....

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    • By: Thomas Hager
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,488 ratings
    • Fast-paced, suspenseful, and utterly satisfying, The Demon Under the Microscope is a sweeping history of the discovery of the first antibiotic and its dramatic effect on the world....

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    • Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire
    • By: Kyle Harper
    • Narrated by: Andrew Garman
    • Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 396 ratings
    • A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman Empire....

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    • How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
    • By: Janice P. Nimura
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 01-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 200 ratings
    • Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope of "ordinary" womanhood....

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    • The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
    • By: Edith Sheffer
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, aiming to treat those children he deemed capable of participating fully in society. Depicted as a compassionate researcher, Asperger was in fact deeply influenced by Nazi psychiatry....

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