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Dead Men Flying
- Victory in Viet Nam: The Legend of Dust Off: America's Battlefield Angels
- By: Patrick Henry Brady, Meghan Brady Smith
- Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Viet Nam may be the only war we ever fought, or perhaps that was ever fought, in which the heroism of the American soldier was accompanied by humanitarianism unmatched in the annals of warfare. And the humanitarianism took place during the heat of the battle. The GI fixed as he fought, he cured and educated and built in the middle of the battle. He truly cared for, and about, those people. What other Army has ever done that? Humanitarianism was America's great victory in Viet Nam.
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Dead Men Flying
- Victory in Viet Nam: The Legend of Dust Off: America's Battlefield Angels
- Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 12-02-14
- Language: English
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The Lobotomist
- A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness
- By: Jack El-Hai
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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The Lobotomist explores one of the darkest chapters of American medicine: the desperate attempt to treat the hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients in need of help during the middle decades of the 20th century. Into this crisis stepped Walter Freeman, MD, who saw a solution in lobotomy, a brain operation intended to reduce the severity of psychotic symptoms. Drawing on Freeman's documents and interviews with Freeman's family, Jack El-Hai takes a penetrating look at the life and work of this complex scientific genius.
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Fascinating and disturbing
- By Marie on 30-01-25
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The Lobotomist
- A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 16-03-21
- Language: English
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The Fever
- Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
- By: Sonia Shah
- Narrated by: Maha Chehlaoui
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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In recent years, malaria has emerged as a cause célèbre for voguish philanthropists. Bill Gates, Bono, and Laura Bush are only a few of the personalities who have lent their names - and opened their pocketbooks - in hopes of curing the disease. Still, in a time when every emergent disease inspires waves of panic, why aren’t we doing more to eradicate one of our oldest foes? And how does a parasitic disease that we’ve known how to prevent for more than a century still infect 500 million people every year, killing nearly 1 million of them?
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Overview of the social history of malaria
- By Nick S on 06-04-22
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The Fever
- Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
- Narrated by: Maha Chehlaoui
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 11-03-13
- Language: English
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Cancer Virus
- The Story of the Epstein-Barr Virus
- By: Dorothy H. Crawford, Alan B. Rickinson, Ingolfur Johannessen
- Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) was discovered in 1964. At the time, the very idea of a virus underlying a cancer was revolutionary. Cancer is, after all, not catching. Even now, the idea of a virus causing cancer surprises many people. But Epstein-Barr, named after its discoverers, Sir Anthony Epstein and Dr Yvonne Barr, is fascinating for other reasons, too. Almost everyone carries it, yet it is only under certain circumstances that it produces disease.
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Fantastic subject matter
- By Mr James A McGill on 30-12-18
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Cancer Virus
- The Story of the Epstein-Barr Virus
- Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 06-06-14
- Language: English
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Age Of Pandemics (1817-1920)
- How they shaped India and the World
- By: Chinmay Tumbe
- Narrated by: Abhishek Ajay Sharma
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
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From lockdowns to lockups, viruses to vaccination, the movement of people to the movement of bowels, from rats to cats, and more, The Age of Pandemics chronicles the many facets of the cholera, plague and influenza pandemics, which claimed over 70 million lives between 1817 and 1920, with India...
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Age Of Pandemics (1817-1920)
- How they shaped India and the World
- Narrated by: Abhishek Ajay Sharma
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 14-07-21
- Language: English
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Se donner toutes les chances
- By: Natacha Calastrémé
- Narrated by: Natacha Calastrémé, Mathieu Buscatto, Caroline Victoria
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
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Notre rapport à la santé a changé. Les traitements se sont diversifiés. Face à un problème de mal-être ou de santé, nous ne savons pas toujours vers qui nous tourner ou qui consulter. Se donner toutes les chances, c'est découvrir les bienfaits des médecines conventionnelles et complémentaires, mais aussi mesurer à quel point notre propre rôle est essentiel. Natacha Calestrémé donne la parole à des médecins et des chercheurs reconnus pour leur expertise scientifique et leur connaissance des pratiques thérapeutiques, et ouvre de nouveaux horizons pour nous aider à aller mieux.
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Se donner toutes les chances
- Narrated by: Natacha Calastrémé, Mathieu Buscatto, Caroline Victoria
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 21-06-23
- Language: French
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How Vaccines Work
- The Science and History Behind Every Question You’ve Wanted to Ask
- By: David Miles
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
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Vaccines are a debate, whether we want them to be or not. With a clear-eyed approach to their science and history, How Vaccines Work demystifies the strange and intricate world of vaccines: it explains what a vaccine is, how they are developed and what happens when they meet our bodies.
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How Vaccines Work
- The Science and History Behind Every Question You’ve Wanted to Ask
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 09-03-23
- Language: English
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Lost
- Miscarriage in Nineteenth-Century America
- By: Shannon Withycombe
- Narrated by: Ginger White
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
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In Lost, medical historian Shannon Withycombe weaves together women’s personal writings and doctors’ publications from the 1820s through the 1910s to investigate the transformative changes in how Americans conceptualized pregnancy, understood miscarriage, and interpreted fetal tissue over the course of the 19th century. Withycombe’s pathbreaking research reveals how Americans construed, and continue to understand, miscarriage within a context of reproductive desires, expectations, and abilities.
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Lost
- Miscarriage in Nineteenth-Century America
- Narrated by: Ginger White
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 22-10-20
- Language: English
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Markets of Pain
- Opium, Capitalism, and the Global History of Painkillers
- By: Benjamin Robert Siegel
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
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For centuries, opium has been a source of both profit and peril, its legacy entangled with addiction, imperialism, and the complex interplay of global trade and national development. While the illicit opium trade is infamous, the history of licit opium has remained largely untold. Markets of...
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Markets of Pain
- Opium, Capitalism, and the Global History of Painkillers
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 15-04-26
- Language: English
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No Apparent Distress
- A Doctor’s Coming-of-Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine
- By: Rachel Pearson MD
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
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In medical charts, the term "N.A.D." (No Apparent Distress) is used for patients who appear stable. The phrase also aptly describes America's medical system when it comes to treating the underprivileged. Medical students learn on the bodies of the poor - and the poor suffer from their mistakes. Rachel Pearson confronted these harsh realities when she started medical school in Galveston, Texas.
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Shocking
- By Lexy on 27-10-22
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No Apparent Distress
- A Doctor’s Coming-of-Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 09-05-17
- Language: English
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Maladies of Empire
- How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
- By: Jim Downs
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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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. Florence Nightingale's contributions to the care of soldiers in the Crimean War transformed hospitals from crucibles of infection to sanctuaries of recuperation. Yet histories of individual innovators ignore many key sources of medical knowledge.
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Maladies of Empire
- How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 10-05-22
- Language: English
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Atomic Doctors
- Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age
- By: James L. Nolan Jr.
- Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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After his father died, James L. Nolan, Jr., took possession of a box of private family materials. To his surprise, the small secret archive contained a treasure trove of information about his grandfather's role as a doctor in the Manhattan Project. Dr. Nolan, it turned out, had been a significant figure.
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Atomic Destination....
- By C H. on 26-04-24
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Atomic Doctors
- Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age
- Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 20-10-20
- Language: English
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Doctors at War
- The Clandestine Battle Against the Nazi Occupation of France
- By: Ellen Hampton
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
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Doctors at War tells the stories of physicians in France working to impede the German war effort and undermine French collaborators during the Occupation from 1940 to 1945. Determined to defeat the Third Reich's incursion, one group of prominent Paris doctors founded a medical network to treat injured Resistance fighters who they then secretly transported to Allied countries to avoid forced labor in Germany. Doctors at War stands as a dramatic, character-driven account of physicians' courage and resilience in the face of evil.
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Doctors at War
- The Clandestine Battle Against the Nazi Occupation of France
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 27-06-23
- Language: English
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What Cannot Be Undone
- True Stories of a Life in Medicine
- By: Walter M. Robinson
- Narrated by: Daniel Thomas May
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
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In his award-winning debut essay collection, What Cannot Be Undone, Walter M. Robinson shares surprising stories of illness and medicine that do not sacrifice hard truth for easy dramatics. These true stories are filled with details of difficult days and nights in the world of high-tech medical care, and they show the ongoing struggle in making critical decisions with no good answer. This collection presents the raw moments where his expertise in medical ethics and pediatrics are put to the test.
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What Cannot Be Undone
- True Stories of a Life in Medicine
- Narrated by: Daniel Thomas May
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 13-09-22
- Language: English
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Miracles We Have Seen
- America's Leading Physicians Share Stories They Can't Forget
- By: Harley Rotbart
- Narrated by: Angela Brazil, Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a book of miracles - medical events witnessed by leading physicians for which there is no reasonable medical explanation, or, if there is, the explanation itself is extraordinary. These dramatic first-person essays detail spectacular serendipities, impossible cures, breathtaking resuscitations, extraordinary awakenings, and recovery from unimaginable disasters. Miracles We Have Seen is a book of inspiration and optimism, and a compelling glimpse into the lives of physicians.
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Really good indepth Listen.
- By Steve H on 14-02-24
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Miracles We Have Seen
- America's Leading Physicians Share Stories They Can't Forget
- Narrated by: Angela Brazil, Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 13-09-16
- Language: English
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Scourge
- The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox
- By: Jonathan B. Tucker
- Narrated by: Patrick Cullen
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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Smallpox, the only infectious disease to have been eradicated, was one of the most terrifying of human scourges. It covered the skin with hideous, painful boils, killed a third of its victims, and left the survivors disfigured for life. In this riveting, often terrifying look at the history of smallpox, Jonathan B. Tucker tells the story of this deadly disease, the heroic efforts to eradicate it worldwide, and the looming dangers it still poses today.
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Scourge
- The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox
- Narrated by: Patrick Cullen
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 05-05-04
- Language: English
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Medicine in Translation
- Journeys with My Patients
- By: Danielle Ofri
- Narrated by: Beth Richmond
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
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For two decades, Dr. Danielle Ofri has cared for patients at Bellevue, the oldest public hospital in the country and a crossroads for the world's cultures. In Medicine in Translation she introduces us, in vivid, moving portraits, to her patients, who have braved language barriers, religious and racial divides, and the emotional and practical difficulties of exile in order to access quality health care.
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I like this book
- By Suraya on 23-12-12
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Medicine in Translation
- Journeys with My Patients
- Narrated by: Beth Richmond
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 13-02-12
- Language: English
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Between Hope and Fear
- A History of Vaccines and Human Immunity
- By: Michael Kinch
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins
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Between Hope and Fear tells the remarkable story of vaccine-preventable infectious diseases and their social and political implications. While detailing the history of vaccine invention, Michael Kinch reveals the ominous reality that our victories against vaccine-preventable diseases are not permanent - and could easily be undone. Between Hope and Fear relates the remarkable intersection of science, technology, and disease that has helped eradicate many of the deadliest plagues known to man.
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Between Hope and Fear
- A History of Vaccines and Human Immunity
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 14-01-20
- Language: English
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The Perfect Tonic
- The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits and Cocktails
- By: Camper English
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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Shortlisted for the André Simon Food & Drink Book Award An intoxicating interconnected history of booze and medicine, from one of the world’s foremost cocktail writers. Consider the Negroni. The bittersweet cocktail dating to the early 1900s is made of equal parts gin, sweet vermouth and...
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The Perfect Tonic
- The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits and Cocktails
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 19-07-22
- Language: English
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Finding Sanity
- John Cade, Lithium and the Taming of Bipolar Disorder
- By: Greg de Moore, Ann Westmore
- Narrated by: Paul English
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
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For most of human history, mental illness has been largely untreatable. Sufferers lived their lives - if they survived - in and out of asylums, accumulating life's wreckage around them. In 1948, all that changed when an Australian doctor and recently returned prisoner of war, working alone in a disused kitchen, set about an experimental treatment for one of the scourges of mankind - manic depression, or bipolar disorder. That doctor was John Cade and in that small kitchen he stirred up a miracle.
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Interesting history of lithium
- By George on 27-11-24
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Finding Sanity
- John Cade, Lithium and the Taming of Bipolar Disorder
- Narrated by: Paul English
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 23-01-17
- Language: English
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