Health Care History

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    • De: Elizabeth Brown Pryor
    • Narrado por: Sheri Leigh Horn
    • Duración: 19 h y 29 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-30-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 calificaciones
    • Widely known today as the "Angel of the Battlefield", Clara Barton's personal life has always been shrouded in mystery. In Clara Barton, Professional Angel, Elizabeth Brown Pryor presents a biography of Barton that strips away the heroic exterior....

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    • A Cultural History of Hypochondria
    • De: Caroline Crampton
    • Narrado por: Caroline Crampton
    • Duración: 9 h y 23 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-23-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 calificaciones
    • Caroline Crampton’s life was upended at the age of seventeen, when she was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a relatively rare blood cancer. After years of invasive treatment, she was finally given the all clear. But being cured of the cancer didn’t mean she felt well.

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    • One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris
    • De: Mark Honigsbaum
    • Narrado por: John Lee
    • Duración: 13 h y 40 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-09-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 111 calificaciones
    • 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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    • The Surprising History, Science, Philosophy, and Politics of Man's Best Friend
    • De: John Homans
    • Narrado por: Don Hagen
    • Duración: 9 h y 5 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 12-05-12
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 50 calificaciones
    • John Homans adopted his dog, Stella, from a shelter for all the usual reasons: fond memories of dogs from his past, a companion for his son, an excuse for long walks around the neighborhood....

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    • Life and Death Inside America’s Premier Mental Hospital
    • De: Alex Beam
    • Narrado por: Matthew Josdal
    • Duración: 9 h y 57 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-23-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 8 calificaciones
    • Gracefully Insane, by Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam, is a fascinating and emotional biography of McLean Hospital from its founding in 1817 through today....

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    • America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him and the Age of Flimflam
    • De: Pope Brock
    • Narrado por: Johnny Heller
    • Duración: 8 h y 41 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-18-08
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 252 calificaciones
    • This is the enormously entertaining story of how a fraudulent surgeon made a fortune by inserting goats' testes into impotent American men....

    Precio regular: $15.47 o 1 crédito

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    • The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine
    • De: William Rosen
    • Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
    • Duración: 12 h y 10 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-09-17
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 calificaciones
    • As late as the 1930s, virtually no drug intended for sickness did any good; doctors could set bones, deliver babies, and offer palliative care. That all changed in less than a generation....

    Precio regular: $18.00 o 1 crédito

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    • A True Story
    • De: Richard Preston
    • Narrado por: James Naughton
    • Duración: 5 h y 48 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-18-02
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 265 calificaciones
    • 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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    • De: Steve Parker
    • Narrado por: Laurel Lefkow
    • Duración: 12 h y 29 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-21-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 calificaciones
    • Immerse yourself in the history of medicine - a colorful story of skill, serendipity, trial and error, moments of genius, and dogged determination....

    Precio regular: $20.25 o 1 crédito

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    • Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease
    • De: Meredith Wadman
    • Narrado por: Nancy Linari
    • Duración: 19 h y 13 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-07-17
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 calificaciones
    • Until the late 1960s, tens of thousands of American children suffered crippling birth defects if their mothers had been exposed to rubella....

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    • From the Bolsheviks and Karl Marx to Universal Healthcare and the Democratic Socialists, Everything You Need to Know About Socialism
    • De: Kathleen Sears
    • Narrado por: Samantha Desz
    • Duración: 6 h y 35 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-03-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 calificaciones
    • Socialism 101 is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the historical and modern applications of socialism....

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    • A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear
    • De: Seth Mnookin
    • Narrado por: Dan John Miller
    • Duración: 10 h y 44 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-12-11
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 280 calificaciones
    • [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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    • The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century
    • De: Jasmine Brown
    • Narrado por: Wanda Rush
    • Duración: 7 h y 17 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-24-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 calificaciones
    • Black women physicians’ stories have gone untold for far too long, leaving gaping holes in American medical history, in women’s history, and in black history. It’s time to set the record straight....

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    • 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: $19.73 o 1 crédito

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    • An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
    • De: Siddhartha Mukherjee
    • Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Duración: 16 h y 2 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-03-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 calificaciones
    • From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene, a number one New York Times best seller, comes his most spectacular book yet, about the fundamental unit of life....

    Precio regular: $23.24 o 1 crédito

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    • 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....

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    • 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 106 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 o 1 crédito

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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....

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    • The Forgotten Epidemic That Became Medicine’s Greatest Mystery
    • De: Molly Caldwell Crosby
    • Narrado por: Christian Rummel
    • Duración: 6 h y 31 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-04-13
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 395 calificaciones
    • A fascinating look at a bizarre, forgotten epidemic from the national best-selling author of The American Plague....

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    • How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
    • De: Jim Downs
    • Narrado por: David Colacci
    • Duración: 9 h y 2 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-10-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 calificaciones
    • Most stories of medical progress come with ready-made heroes. John Snow traced the origins of London's 1854 cholera outbreak to a water pump, leading to the birth of epidemiology....

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