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Opium’s Orphans
- The 200-Year History of the War on Drugs
- By: P.E. Caquet
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
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Opium's Orphans is the first full history of drug prohibition and the "war on drugs." A no-holds-barred but balanced account, it shows that drug suppression was born of historical accident, not rational design. The war on drugs did not originate in Europe or the United States, and even less with President Nixon, but in China. Two Opium Wars followed by Western attempts to atone for them gave birth to an anti-narcotics order that has come to span the globe. But has the war on drugs succeeded?
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Opium’s Orphans
- The 200-Year History of the War on Drugs
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 16-06-22
- Language: English
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Habit Forming
- Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914
- By: Elizabeth Kelly Gray
- Narrated by: Kitty Hendrix
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Habitual drug use in the United States is at least as old as the nation itself. Habit Forming traces the history of unregulated drug use and dependency before 1914, when the Harrison Narcotic Tax Act limited sales of opiates and cocaine under US law. Many Americans used opiates and other drugs medically and became addicted. Some tried Hasheesh Candy, injected morphine, or visited opium dens, but neither use nor addiction was linked to crime, due to the dearth of restrictive laws. After the Civil War, American presses published extensively about domestic addiction.
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Habit Forming
- Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914
- Narrated by: Kitty Hendrix
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 28-02-23
- Language: English
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Diagnosing Giants
- Solving the Medical Mysteries of Thirteen Patients Who Changed the World
- By: Philip A. Mackowiak
- Narrated by: Bryan Reid
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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Dr. Mackowiak, a professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, offers a gripping and authoritative account of 13 patients who took center stage in world history. The result is a new understanding of how the past unfolded, as well as a sweeping survey of the history of medicine. What was the ailment that drove Caligula mad? Why did Stonewall Jackson die after having an arm amputated, when so many other Civil War soldiers survived such operations?
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Diagnosing Giants
- Solving the Medical Mysteries of Thirteen Patients Who Changed the World
- Narrated by: Bryan Reid
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 03-06-14
- Language: English
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Unlocking the Ancient Secrets to Healing
- By: Gail Lynn
- Narrated by: Gail Lynn, Christi Bowen, Adam Lofbomm
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
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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.
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A Transformative Journey Unveiled
- By Frasser B. on 24-11-23
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Unlocking the Ancient Secrets to Healing
- Narrated by: Gail Lynn, Christi Bowen, Adam Lofbomm
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 12-01-23
- Language: English
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Better
- A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
- By: Atul Gawande
- Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER The New York Times bestselling author of Being Mortal and Complications examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in a complex and risk-filled profession The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue...
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Better
- A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
- Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 03-04-07
- Language: English
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The Invention of the Modern Dog
- Breed and Blood in Victorian Britain (Animals, History, Culture)
- By: Michael Worboys, Julie-Marie Strange, Neil Pemberton
- Narrated by: Keith McCarthy
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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In The Invention of the Modern Dog, Michael Worboys, Julie-Marie Strange, and Neil Pemberton explore when, where, why, and how Victorians invented the modern way of ordering and breeding dogs. Though talk of "breed" was common before this period in the context of livestock, the modern idea of a dog breed defined in terms of shape, size, coat, and color arose during the Victorian period in response to a burgeoning competitive dog show culture.
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The Invention of the Modern Dog
- Breed and Blood in Victorian Britain (Animals, History, Culture)
- Narrated by: Keith McCarthy
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 19-04-24
- Language: English
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Troubled by Faith
- Insanity and the Supernatural in the Age of the Asylum
- By: Owen Davies
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
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The birth of psychiatry in the early nineteenth-century fundamentally changed how madness was categorized and understood. A century on, their conceptions of mental illness continue to influence our views today. Beliefs and behavior were divided up into the pathological and the healthy. The influence of religion and the supernatural became significant measures of insanity in individuals, countries, and cultures. Troubled by Faith explores these ideas about the supernatural across society through the prism of medical history.
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Troubled by Faith
- Insanity and the Supernatural in the Age of the Asylum
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 30-11-23
- Language: English
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Acid Revival
- The Psychedelic Renaissance and the Quest for Medical Legitimacy
- By: Danielle Giffort
- Narrated by: Leslie Howard
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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Psychedelic drugs are making a comeback. In the mid-20th century, scientists actively studied the potential of drugs like LSD and psilocybin for treating mental health problems. After a decades-long hiatus, researchers are once again testing how effective these drugs are in relieving symptoms for a wide variety of psychiatric conditions, from depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder to posttraumatic stress disorder and substance addiction.
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Repetitive and unstructured
- By M on 26-09-23
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Acid Revival
- The Psychedelic Renaissance and the Quest for Medical Legitimacy
- Narrated by: Leslie Howard
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 27-10-20
- Language: English
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Rumbles
- A Curious History of the Gut
- By: Elsa Richardson
- Narrated by: Zehra Jane Naqvi
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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The stomach is notoriously outspoken. It growls, gurgles, and grumbles while other organs remain silent. For centuries humans have puzzled over this rowdy organ, deliberating on the extent of its influence over cognition, mental wellbeing, and emotions, and wondering how the gut became so central to our sense of self. Traveling from ancient Greece to Victorian England, eighteenth-century France to modern America, historian Elsa Richardson leads us on a tour of the gut, exploring all the ways that we have imagined, theorized, and probed the mysteries of the gastroenterological system.
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Rumbles
- A Curious History of the Gut
- Narrated by: Zehra Jane Naqvi
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 29-10-24
- Language: English
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China Syndrome
- The True Story of the 21st Century's First Great Epidemic
- By: Karl Taro Greenfeld
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
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When the SARS virus broke out in China in January 2003, Karl Taro Greenfeld was the editor of Time Asia in Hong Kong, just a few miles from the epicenter of the outbreak. After vague, initial reports of terrified Chinese boiling vinegar to "purify" the air, Greenfeld and his staff soon found themselves immersed in the story of a lifetime. Deftly tracking a mysterious viral killer, China Syndrome takes listeners on a gripping ride that blows through the Chinese government's effort to cover up the disease and sounds a clarion call warning of a catastrophe to come.
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Fascinating and worrying
- By Emma on 19-02-23
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China Syndrome
- The True Story of the 21st Century's First Great Epidemic
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 23-03-22
- Language: English
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The Anatomy of Hope
- How People Prevail in the Face of Illness
- By: Jerome Groopman
- Narrated by: Jerome Groopman
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
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An inspiring and profoundly enlightening exploration of one doctor’s discovery of how hope can change the course of illness Since the time of the ancient Greeks, human beings have believed that hope is essential to life. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Harvard Medical School professor and...
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The Anatomy of Hope
- How People Prevail in the Face of Illness
- Narrated by: Jerome Groopman
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 14-01-04
- 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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The South Carolina State Hospital
- Stories from Bull Street
- By: William Buchheit
- Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
- Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
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Nearly two decades after it closed, the South Carolina State Hospital continues to hold a palpable mystique in Columbia and throughout the state. Founded in 1821 as the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum, it housed, fed, and treated thousands of patients incapable of surviving on their own. The patient population in 1961 eclipsed 6,600, well above its listed capacity of 4,823. By the mid-1990s, the patient population had fallen under 700, and the hospital had become a symbol of captivity, horror, and chaos.
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The South Carolina State Hospital
- Stories from Bull Street
- Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
- Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 28-07-20
- Language: English
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Great Courses: Mistérios da medicina ao longo da história [Medical Mysteries Across History, Pt 1]
- By: Roy Benaroch MD
- Narrated by: Rubens Cristoforo
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
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Nestas dez aulas reveladoras, o médico e professor de medicina Roy Benaroch apresenta uma série de mistérios médicos, tirados dos livros de história, envolvendo personalidades históricas conhecidas—presidentes, cientistas, cantores, reis, rainhas—cujas identidades estão ocultas.
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Great Courses: Mistérios da medicina ao longo da história [Medical Mysteries Across History, Pt 1]
- Narrated by: Rubens Cristoforo
- Series: The Great Courses (Português)
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 02-12-24
- Language: Portuguese
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The Wisdom of Plagues
- Lessons from 25 Years of Covering Pandemics
- By: Donald G. McNeil Jr.
- Narrated by: Donald G. McNeil Jr.
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
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Award-winning New York Times reporter Donald G. McNeil, Jr. reflects on twenty-five years of covering pandemics—how governments react to them, how the media covers them, how they are exploited, and what we can do to prepare for the next one—in this “fascinating, ferocious fusillade against...
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More than a book on plagues
- By Anonymous on 03-01-26
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The Wisdom of Plagues
- Lessons from 25 Years of Covering Pandemics
- Narrated by: Donald G. McNeil Jr.
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 09-01-24
- Language: English
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A Brief History on the Black Death
- A Brief History On
- By: Scott Matthews
- Narrated by: Daniel Jones
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
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In A Brief History On The Black Death, we embark on a gripping journey through one of humanity's most devastating catastrophes—the Black Death. This meticulously researched and engaging book offers a concise yet comprehensive account of the infamous pandemic that swept across Europe in the 14th century, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. Drawing from a vast array of historical sources and scholarly research, this captivating exploration delves into the origins, spread, and impact of the Black Death with meticulous detail.
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The Black Death
- By Amazon Customer on 03-05-26
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A Brief History on the Black Death
- A Brief History On
- Narrated by: Daniel Jones
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Release date: 18-11-24
- Language: English
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Miracle Medicines
- Seven Lifesaving Drugs and the People Who Created Them
- By: Robert L. Shook
- Narrated by: John McLain
- Length: 16 hrs and 7 mins
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It’s the business of saving lives. Miracle Medicines goes behind the scenes of the pharmaceutical industry and into the high-security laboratories to tell the stories of the men and women - chemists, physiologists, medical and clinical researchers, engineers - who have chosen to toil for years in the lab in order to transform scientific theories into new lifesaving medicines. You’ll witness the day-to-day labors, victories and defeats of the dedicated professionals who are waging a war against the diseases that still plague mankind.
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Bias to the point of comedy
- By P. J. Bell on 14-01-16
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Miracle Medicines
- Seven Lifesaving Drugs and the People Who Created Them
- Narrated by: John McLain
- Length: 16 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 10-09-13
- Language: English
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Ante todo no hagas daño
- By: Henry Marsh, Patricia Antón de Vez Ayala-Duarte
- Narrated by: Eugenio Barona
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
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A los mandos de un microscopio ultrapotente y un catéter de alta precisión, el doctor Marsh se abre camino por los intersticios del cerebro. Con frecuencia, de su pericia y de su pulso dependen que un paciente recupere la visión o acabe en una silla de ruedas. Hay días en los que salva vidas, pero también hay jornadas nefastas en las que un pequeño error o una cadena de infortunios lo hacen sentirse el ser más desdichado sobre la faz de la Tierra.
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Ante todo no hagas daño
- Narrated by: Eugenio Barona
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 18-11-21
- Language: Spanish
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Cazadores de microbios [Microbe Hunters]
- By: Paul De Kruif
- Narrated by: Gabriela Ramirez
- Length: 40 mins
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Los microorganismos son bichos que conviven con la humanidad y que, por una parte, pueden matar en forma misteriosa y en silencio a millones de personas y por otra, son benéficos para la naturaleza y el ser humano. Esta obra habla de varios investigadores o cazadores de microbios nocivos, causantes estos de terribles enfermedades como la rabia, la tuberculosis, la difteria, la sífilis y el paludismo, entre otras.
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Cazadores de microbios [Microbe Hunters]
- Narrated by: Gabriela Ramirez
- Length: 40 mins
- Release date: 21-07-20
- Language: Spanish
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Dead or Alive
- By: Erika Hayasaki
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
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What happens after we die? Does our consciousness vanish at the moment of death? Or does it continue in some form? Former Los Angeles Times national correspondent Erika Hayasaki sets out to explore the controversial science behind near-death experiences. The journey leads her to forge an unexpected bond with a distant family member who becomes her tour guide and ends up teaching her not only how awesome it can be to die but how precious it can be to live.
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Dead or Alive
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Release date: 31-03-15
- Language: English
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