Health Care History

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    • 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 156 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....

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    • How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to Covid-19
    • De: Edna Bonhomme
    • Narrado por: Veronique Olin
    • Duración: 10 h y 23 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-25-25
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 calificaciones
    • In the vein of Medical Apartheid and Killing the Black Body, A History of the World in Six Plagues is a deeply reported, insightful, and literary account of humankind’s battles with epidemic disease, and their outsized role in deepening inequality along racial, ethnic, class, and gender lines.

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    • Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
    • De: Paul A. Offit MD
    • Narrado por: Greg Tremblay
    • Duración: 7 h y 51 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-04-17
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,688 calificaciones
    • 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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    • 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....

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    • The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
    • De: Sam Kean
    • Narrado por: Henry Leyva
    • Duración: 12 h y 37 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-27-14
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,444 calificaciones
    • The author of the best seller The Disappearing Spoon reveals the secret inner workings of the brain through strange but true stories....

    Precio regular: $24.95 o 1 crédito

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    • The Way to Healing
    • De: Victoria Sweet
    • Narrado por: Victoria Sweet
    • Duración: 9 h y 56 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-17-17
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 calificaciones
    • The award-winning author of God's Hotel offers a radical reimagining of how we practice medicine....

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    • How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future
    • De: Perri Klass
    • Narrado por: Randye Kaye
    • Duración: 11 h y 15 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 12-08-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 calificaciones
    • The beating back of infant and child mortality is one of our greatest human achievements. Author Perri Klass pays tribute to groundbreaking women doctors, nurses, public health advocates, and scientists who brought new approaches about sanitation and vaccination to families....

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    • A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
    • De: Lindsey Fitzharris
    • Narrado por: Daniel Gillies
    • Duración: 8 h y 15 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-07-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 324 calificaciones
    • Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true story of a visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War’s injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgery.

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    • De: P. T. Barnum
    • Narrado por: Rick Adamson
    • Duración: 11 h y 19 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-20-10
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 34 calificaciones
    • Here is P. T. Barnum's insightful review of humbugs, scams, deceits (and self-deceits) in culture, economics, entertainment, religion, medicine, and more....

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    • De: Paul De Kruif
    • Narrado por: Gabriela Ramirez
    • Duración: 40 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 07-21-20
    • Idioma: Español
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 calificaciones
    • Esta obra habla de varios investigadores o cazadores de microbios nocivos, causantes estos de terribles enfermedades como la rabia, la tuberculosis, la difteria, la sífilis y el paludismo, entre otras....

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    • Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital
    • De: David Oshinsky
    • Narrado por: Fred Sanders
    • Duración: 14 h y 41 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-15-16
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,130 calificaciones
    • David Oshinsky chronicles the history of America's oldest hospital and in so doing also charts the rise of New York to the nation's preeminent city, the path of American medicine....

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    • Adventures in the Art and Science of Fasting
    • De: Steve Hendricks
    • Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Duración: 17 h y 44 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-06-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 113 calificaciones
    • A journalist takes listeners into the science and history of intermittent fasting, an ancient practice in the middle of a red-hot resurgence, exploring the body's power to heal itself....

    Precio regular: $44.99 o 1 crédito

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    • De: Suzie Edge
    • Narrado por: Suzie Edge
    • Duración: 6 h y 48 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-28-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 120 calificaciones
    • A journey through history's most famous limbs, organs, and appendages, from TikTok medical historian Dr Suzie Edge....

    Precio regular: $27.27 o 1 crédito

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    • 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....

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    • A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
    • De: Timothy C. Winegard
    • Narrado por: Mark Deakins
    • Duración: 19 h y 7 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-06-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 545 calificaciones
    • A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity’s fate....

    Precio regular: $24.75 o 1 crédito

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    • The History of Geriatric Health Care and What Really Matters to Older Adults
    • De: Michael J. Dowling, Charles Kenney, Maria Torroella Carney
    • Narrado por: Liisa Ivary
    • Duración: 7 h y 48 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-05-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
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    • The Aging Revolution is the story of Butler and his disciples: women and men who saw older distressed adults in hospitals and homes, and worse: being ignored by most of the medical establishment.

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    • How to Prepare for the Coming Climate Disruption
    • De: Alice C. Hill, Leonardo Martinez-Diaz
    • Narrado por: Christina Delaine
    • Duración: 6 h y 46 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-14-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 calificaciones
    • Building a Resilient Tomorrow starts with two central facts: Climate impacts will continue to occur, and we can make changes now to mitigate their effects....

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    • 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...

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    • A Chilling Descent into the Macabre, Controversial, Lifesaving History of Hypothermia
    • De: Phil Jaekl
    • Narrado por: Matt Kugler
    • Duración: 8 h y 52 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-01-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 calificaciones
    • In Out Cold, science writer Phil Jaekl chronicles the underappreciated story of human innovation with cold, from Ancient Egypt, where it was used to treat skin irritations, to 18th-century London, where scientists used it in their first explorations of suspended animation....

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    • A Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Ages
    • De: Nathan Belofsky
    • Narrado por: Chris Andrew Ciulla
    • Duración: 5 h y 10 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-26-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 16 calificaciones
    • Now published in five languages, Strange Medicine casts a gimlet eye on the practice of medicine through the ages that highlights the most dubious ideas, bizarre treatments, and biggest blunders....

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