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    • A Short History of Living Longer
    • By: Steven Johnson
    • Narrated by: Steven Johnson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 163 ratings
    • In 1920, at the end of the last major pandemic, global life expectancy was just over 40 years. Today, in many parts of the world, human beings can expect to live more than 80 years. As a species, we have doubled our life expectancy in just one century....

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    • A True Story
    • By: Richard Preston
    • Narrated by: James Naughton
    • Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-02
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 265 ratings
    • The first major bioterror event in the United States - the anthrax attacks in October 2001 - was a clarion call for scientists who work with “hot” agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons....

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    • By: Leon Neyfakh, Prologue Projects
    • Narrated by: Leon Neyfakh, Arielle Pardes
    • Series: Backfired
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 367 ratings
    • Backfired is the latest podcast from Prologue Projects, the award-winning team behind Slow Burn, Fiasco, and Think Twice: Michael Jackson. Backfired is a show about the business of unintended consequences—what happens when solving one problem inadvertently leads to a host of new ones?

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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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    • A Surplus Manifesto
    • By: Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Artie Vierkant
    • Narrated by: Sarah Welborn
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Written by cohosts of the hit Death Panel podcast and longtime disability justice and healthcare activists Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie, Health Communism first examines how capital has instrumentalized health, disability, madness, and illness....

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    • The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
    • By: David K. Randall
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 117 ratings
    • A spine-chilling saga of virulent racism, human folly, and the ultimate triumph of scientific progress....

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    • Life, Death, and Politics at Chicago’s Public Hospital
    • By: David A. Ansell MD
    • Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
    • Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 374 ratings
    • The amazing tale of County is the story of one of America's oldest and most unusual urban hospitals....

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    • The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America
    • By: Mark A. Bradley
    • Narrated by: Perry Daniels
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • Blood Runs Coal sheds light on the far-reaching effects of industrial and socioeconomic change that unfold across America to this day....

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    • Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
    • By: Paul A. Offit MD
    • Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
    • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,650 ratings
    • History is filled with brilliant ideas that gave rise to disaster, and this book explores the most fascinating - and significant - missteps....

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    • From the Black Death to the Present
    • By: Frank M. Snowden
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 23 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • A multidisciplinary and comparative investigation of the medical and social history of the major epidemics, this volume touches on themes such as the evolution of medical therapy, plague literature, poverty, the environment, and mass hysteria....

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    • One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris
    • By: Mark Honigsbaum
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 111 ratings
    • Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet despite a century of medical progress, viral and bacterial disasters continue to take us by surprise....

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    • Patient Safety and the Middle-Managing of American Medicine
    • By: Robert L. Wears, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • 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....

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    • A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear
    • By: Seth Mnookin
    • Narrated by: Dan John Miller
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 280 ratings
    • [A] gripping scientific detective story about how grassroots radicals, snake-oil salesmen, and cynical journalists have perpetrated the biggest health-scare hoax of all time.....

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    • How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It
    • By: Jason Karlawish
    • Narrated by: Jason Karlawish, Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • 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....

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    • A True Story
    • By: Richard Preston
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,362 ratings
    • The first major bioterror event in the United States - the anthrax attacks in October 2001 - was a clarion call for scientists who work with "hot" agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons....

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    • The Hidden Science of Fighting Outbreaks
    • By: Caitlin Rivers PhD
    • Narrated by: Jaime Lamchick
    • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-24
    • Language: English
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    • Caitlin Rivers illuminates the role of epidemiology in all our lives, weaving together stories of triumph and tragedy, with a boots-on-the-ground perspective on how we can avert the next public health crisis.

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    • Ebola and the Ravages of History
    • By: Paul Farmer
    • Narrated by: Pete Cross
    • Length: 22 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • In 2014, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea suffered the worst epidemic of Ebola in history. The brutal virus spread rapidly through a clinical desert, where basic health-care facilities were few and far between....

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