Health History

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    • The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry
    • De: Paul Starr
    • Narrado por: Sean Runnette
    • Duración: 24 h y 5 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 07-18-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 116 calificaciones
    • 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....

    Precio regular: $25.79

    • The Story of Autism
    • De: John Donvan, Caren Zucker
    • Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith
    • Duración: 23 h y 6 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-02-16
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 222 calificaciones
    • In 1938, Donald Triplett of Forest, Mississippi, became the first child diagnosed with autism. Beginning with his family’s odyssey, In a Different Key tells the extraordinary story of this often misunderstood condition....

    Precio regular: $27.00

    • The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
    • De: Kate Moore
    • Narrado por: Angela Brazil
    • Duración: 15 h y 52 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-02-17
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,696 calificaciones
    • As a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, painting watches, clocks, and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium....

    Precio regular: $30.09

    • A Rollicking Journey Through Our Sexual Past, Present, and Future
    • De: Esmé Louise James
    • Narrado por: Esmé Louise James
    • Duración: 11 h y 8 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-18-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 calificaciones
    • A provocative journey through human sexual history, packed with fun factoids and forgotten stories, from the historian and storyteller behind Kinky History, @esme.louisee on TikTok

    Precio regular: $20.25

    • A Very Short Introduction
    • De: Christian W. McMillen
    • Narrado por: Joe Barrett
    • Duración: 3 h y 59 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-02-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 calificaciones
    • Christian W. McMillen provides a concise yet comprehensive account of pandemics throughout human history, illustrating how pandemic disease has shaped history and, at the same time, social behavior has influenced pandemic disease....

    Precio regular: $13.75

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    • Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19
    • De: John Fabian Witt
    • Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
    • Duración: 2 h y 55 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-16-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 calificaciones
    • From yellow fever to smallpox to polio to AIDS to COVID-19, epidemics have prompted Americans to make choices and answer questions about their basic values and their laws....

    Precio regular: $9.45

    • How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
    • De: Edward Slingerland
    • Narrado por: Tom Parks
    • Duración: 10 h y 27 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-17-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 261 calificaciones
    • While plenty of entertaining books have been written about the history of alcohol and other intoxicants, none have offered a comprehensive, convincing answer to the basic question of why humans want to get high in the first place....

    Precio regular: $25.00

    • From the Black Death to the Present
    • De: Frank M. Snowden
    • Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
    • Duración: 23 h y 34 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-15-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 calificaciones
    • 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....

    Precio regular: $25.79

    • The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today
    • De: Elizabeth Comen
    • Narrado por: Anna Caputo
    • Duración: 13 h y 25 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-13-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 104 calificaciones
    • A surprising, groundbreaking, and fiercely entertaining medical history that is both a collective narrative of women’s bodies and a call to action for a new conversation around women’s health.

    Precio regular: $25.19

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    • On Homecoming and Belonging
    • De: Sebastian Junger
    • Narrado por: Sebastian Junger
    • Duración: 2 h y 59 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-24-16
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15,267 calificaciones
    • Combining history, psychology, and anthropology, Tribe explores what we can learn from tribal societies about loyalty, belonging, and the eternal human quest for meaning....

    Precio regular: $17.09

    • The Sub-Two-Hour Marathon Is Within Reach - Here’s How It Will Go Down, and What It Can Teach All Runners About Training and Racing
    • De: Philip Maffetone, Bill Katovsky
    • Narrado por: LJ Ganser
    • Duración: 7 h y 18 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-25-14
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 288 calificaciones
    • The world's fastest times for the marathon have been dropping since the distance of 26.2 miles was made official nearly one hundred years ago....

    Precio regular: $19.95

    • COVID-19, Avian Flu and the Plagues of Capitalism
    • De: Mike Davis
    • Narrado por: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Duración: 5 h y 37 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 07-06-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 calificaciones
    • In this substantially expanded edition of his earlier book The Monster at Our Door, the renowned activist and author Mike Davis looks at the COVID-19 pandemic now sweeping the world....

    Precio regular: $13.99

    • 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
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 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.

    Precio regular: $19.49

    • De: Kate Lister
    • Narrado por: Kate Lister
    • Duración: 8 h y 18 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-24-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 229 calificaciones
    • Based on the popular research project Whores of Yore, and written with her distinctive humor and wit, A Curious History of Sex draws upon Dr. Kate Lister's extensive knowledge of sex history....

    Precio regular: $17.19

    • The History and Future of Logic Puzzles
    • De: Jason Rosenhouse
    • Narrado por: Tom Perkins
    • Duración: 13 h y 4 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-24-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
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    • Featuring a wealth of sample puzzles ranging from simple to extremely challenging, this lively and engaging book brings together many of the most ingenious puzzles ever devised, including the "Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever", metapuzzles, paradoxes, and the logic puzzles in detective stories....

    Precio regular: $21.49

    • Close Calls, Cold Cases, and the Mysteries of Medicine
    • De: Brendan Reilly
    • Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
    • Duración: 15 h y 7 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-07-14
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,252 calificaciones
    • An epic story told by a unique voice in Ameri­can medicine, One Doctor describes life-changing experiences in the career of a distinguished physician....

    Precio regular: $19.34

    • 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 1,131 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....

    Precio regular: $20.25

    • How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
    • De: Joseph Henrich
    • Narrado por: Korey Jackson
    • Duración: 19 h y 3 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-13-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 504 calificaciones
    • In The WEIRDest People in the World, Joseph Henrich draws on cutting-edge research in anthropology, psychology, economics, and evolutionary biology to explore these questions and more....

    Precio regular: $25.00