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»Eine grandiose Kulturgeschichte des Krebses.« SPIEGEL Krebs ist ein Überlebenskünstler: Er verändert sich, er passt sich an, er entwickelt sich weiter, er wächst. Er ist uns biologisch so nahe, dass wir uns oft selbst zerstören, wenn wir ihn vernichten. Die Suche nach der »Heilung« von...

Part memoir, part illuminating treatise on why science is looking to the past for the future of medicine, Unlocking the Ancient Secrets to Healing chronicles the personal tribulations and professional discoveries behind the remarkable realization of Gail Lynn’s dream.

A crucial component of anti-Black racism is the unconscionable disparity in health outcomes between Black and white Americans. Sickening examines this institutionalized inequality through dramatic, concrete events from the past two decades, revealing how unequal living conditions and inadequate medical care have become routine. From the spike in chronic disease after Hurricane Katrina to the lack of protection for Black residents during the Flint water crisis, author Anne Pollock takes listeners on a journey through the diversity of anti-Black racism operating in healthcare.

A grassroots history of American medicine that shows how regular people were architects of medical knowledge and care. Most histories of medicine center doctors: the standard-bearers of expertise and innovation. Yet these narratives underplay the role that ordinary people have, and always have...

Picking up where Berton Roueche's The Medical Detectives left off, The Deadly Dinner Party presents 15 edge-of-your-seat, real-life medical detective stories written by a practicing physician. Award-winning author Jonathan Edlow, MD, shows the doctor as detective and the epidemiologist as elite sleuth in stories that are as gripping as the best thrillers.  

Le Grand Guide du sommeil de mon bébé est déjà une référence incontournable, regorgeant de précieux conseils pour concilier parentalité positive, vie de famille épanouie, et nuits sereines !
Abracadabra, vous voilà entre les mains expertes de la Fée Dodo !

*** 'Just brilliant. The book of the decade.' - Professor Tim Flannery, Former Australian of the Year 'An honest, powerful and riveting book that demonstrates Lachlan's courage in the face of the hardest of circumstances.' - Levison Wood, Award-winning author, explorer and photographer 'Wow. A...

Experience medieval medical history, where surviving sudden disease meant relying on herbal healing and spiritual faith. Perfect for your daily commute, this immersive narrative transports you from rural peasant cottages to wealthy royal courts. Witness how ordinary families battled festering...

Step into the operating room for a gripping medical history of how visionary pioneers conquered the agony of human pain. Perfect for your daily commute, this dramatic chronicle transports you from ancient herbal rituals to the tense, high-stakes public demonstrations of early anesthetics...

Uncover the turbulent history of psychology and the fight for human dignity in this eye-opening exploration of madness. Perfect for a reflective commute or a deep learning session, this narrative reveals how humanity has treated psychological distress across centuries. You will journey from...

Explore the dramatic medical history of human survival and scientific triumph over the terrifying toothache. Whether you are seeking a fascinating audio companion for your daily commute or looking to conquer deep-seated dental anxiety, this captivating true story transforms a universal fear into...

When British-born Elizabeth Blackwell earned her medical degree in America in 1849, there was an international outcry. Few at the time would have disagreed with the actress Fanny Kemble's remark - "What, trust a woman doctor - never!"

A vivid, sweeping, and “fact-filled” (Booklist, starred review) history of mankind’s battles with infectious disease that “contextualizes the COVID-19 pandemic” (Publishers Weekly)—for readers of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Yuval Harari’s Sapiens and John Barry’s The Great...

An articulate, compelling history of American battlefield medics.  

Cette "Traversée des temps" affronte un prodigieux défi : raconter l'histoire de l'humanité sous la forme d'un roman. Faire défiler les siècles, en embrasser les âges, en sentir les bouleversements, comme si Yuval Noah Harari avait croisé Alexandre Dumas. Depuis plus de trente ans, ce projet titanesque occupe Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt.

Drawing upon evidence from archives across the world, Veiled Warriors offers a compelling account of nurses' wartime experiences and a clear appraisal of their work and its contribution to the allied cause between 1914 and 1918, on both the Western and the Eastern Fronts. Nurses believed they were involved in a multi-layered battle. Primarily, they were fighting for the lives of their patients on the "second battlefield" of casualty clearing stations, transports, and military hospitals.

This amazing tale is the story of one of America's oldest and most unusual urban hospitals. From it's inception as a "Poor House" dispensing free medical care to indigents, Chicago's Cook County Hospital has been both a renowned teaching hospital and the healthcare provider of last resort for the city's uninsured. County covers more than thirty years of its history, beginning in the late 1970s when the author began his internship, to the "Final Rounds" when the enormous iconic Victorian hospital building was replaced and hundreds of former trainees gathered to bid it an emotional farewell.

Between 1939 and 1945, Nazi genocide claimed the lives of nearly three hundred thousand people diagnosed with psychiatric illness or cognitive deficiencies. Not until the 1980s would these murders, as well as the coercive sterilizations of some four hundred thousand others classified as “feeble-minded,” be officially acknowledged as crimes at all. The Question of Unworthy Life charts this history from its origins in prewar debates about the value of disabled lives to our continuing efforts to unlearn eugenic thinking today.

An invisible microscopic enemy shatters the Ancient Roman Empire in this immersive medical history of a deadly pandemic. Perfect for an engaging commute, this epic narrative transports you to the glittering courts of sixth-century Constantinople. As an ambitious ruler dreams of endless conquest...

Stuart Jamieson's story is the story of four decades of advances in heart surgery. Taut, elegantly crafted, and ever-attentive to the patients for whom he was the last best chance, Close to the Sun is an adventurous, riveting account based on the experience of over 40,000 heart surgeries, where everything was on the line every moment in the O.R.