Health Care History

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    • Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio
    • De: Jeffrey Kluger
    • Narrado por: Michael Prichard
    • Duración: 13 h y 12 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-03-06
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 247 calificaciones
    • Salk became a cultural hero and icon for a whole generation....

    Precio regular: $18.91 o 1 crédito

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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.

    Precio regular: $25.19 o 1 crédito

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    • The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, The Epidemic That Shaped Our History
    • De: Molly Caldwell Crosby
    • Narrado por: Paul Woodson
    • Duración: 8 h y 29 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 12-05-17
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 148 calificaciones
    • Compelling and terrifying, The American Plague depicts the story of yellow fever and its reign in this country - and in Africa, where even today it strikes thousands every year....

    Precio regular: $14.61 o 1 crédito

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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....

    Precio regular: $24.06 o 1 crédito

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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....

    Precio regular: $17.19 o 1 crédito

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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 Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine
    • De: Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
    • Narrado por: Jamie Renell
    • Duración: 10 h y 38 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-04-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 calificaciones
    • A bizarre, rollicking trip through the world of fringe medicine, filled with leeches, baking soda IVs, and, according to at least one person, zombies: Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling examines the growing universe of non-traditional treatments....

    Precio regular: $21.83 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....

    Precio regular: $22.50 o 1 crédito

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    • The Impossible Adventure of a Spiritual Seeker and Visionary Physician Who Helped Conquer the Worst Disease in History
    • De: Larry Brilliant
    • Narrado por: Fred Sanders
    • Duración: 12 h y 27 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-11-16
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 230 calificaciones
    • The unforgettable, entertaining, and inspiring memoir of the activist, teacher, entrepreneur, and spiritual leader that illuminates some of the most revolutionary events of a generation....

    Precio regular: $22.49 o 1 crédito

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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....

    Precio regular: $14.99 o 1 crédito

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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....

    Precio regular: $18.72 o 1 crédito

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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 American History
    • De: Michael Willrich
    • Narrado por: K. Todd Freeman
    • Duración: 14 h y 8 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-01-11
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 62 calificaciones
    • The untold story of how America's Progressive-era war on smallpox sparked one of the great civil liberties battles of the 20th century....

    Precio regular: $21.60 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 Deadly Genetic Disease, a New Era in Science, and the Patients and Families Who Changed Medicine Forever
    • De: Bijal P. Trivedi
    • Narrado por: Deepti Gupta
    • Duración: 20 h y 35 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 12-01-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 127 calificaciones
    • Cystic fibrosis was once a mysterious disease that killed infants and children. Now it could be the key to healing millions with genetic diseases of every type - from Alzheimer's and Parkinson's to diabetes and sickle cell anemia....

    Precio regular: $32.89 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....

    Precio regular: $24.95 o 1 crédito

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • De: William Bynum
    • Narrado por: Jonathan Cowley
    • Duración: 5 h y 8 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-23-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 calificaciones
    • Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, this Very Short Introduction surveys the history of medicine from classical times to the present....

    Precio regular: $13.99 o 1 crédito

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    • 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 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....

    Precio regular: $19.34 o 1 crédito

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