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Oltrepassa lo stigma sociale: vivi l'evoluzione della cura, dalle ombre dei manicomi alla psicologia moderna. Ideale per accompagnare i tuoi momenti di profonda riflessione o i tragitti quotidiani, questo saggio audio ricostruisce il complesso rapporto tra società e sofferenza psichica...

Un nemico invisibile uccise più della Prima guerra mondiale, eppure questa devastante pandemia globale fu dimenticata. Ideale per accompagnare i tuoi spostamenti quotidiani con un ascolto educativo e profondo, questa narrazione ti immerge in un'Europa del 1918 ormai stremata, dove sistemi...

Mergulhe na história da medicina e entenda como uma pandemia global superou as mortes da Primeira Guerra Mundial. Perfeito para sua jornada de aprendizado durante o trajeto diário, este relato imersivo e intenso transporta você para um mundo exausto por conflitos bélicos. Acompanhe a rápida...

Un'isteria di massa travolgente e danze senza fine creano un mistero storico carico di fascino e tensione palpabile. Perfetto per arricchire i tuoi spostamenti quotidiani con curiosità intellettuale, questo saggio ti catapulta nella Strasburgo del sedicesimo secolo. Tra vicoli affollati e paure...

人類を絶望の淵に追いやった未知の感染症という恐怖に対し、科学と医学の力で立ち向かい、生命の歴史を劇的に塗り替えた壮大なドラマがここにあります。日々の通勤やウォーキングの時間を活用して、現代の健康に対...

得体の知れない運命や悪い空気が病気の原因だと信じられていた時代から、目に見えない微生物が感染症を引き起こすという歴史的なパラダイムシフトへと至る、知的好奇心を激しく刺激する医学革命の物語です。毎日の...

人類を脅かす病という見えない敵との果てしない戦いと、犠牲の先に医療技術という光を掴み取った劇的な歴史ノンフィクション。通勤の移動時間や静かな夜のひとときに耳を傾ければ、祈りにすがるしかなかった古代か...

Bacterias y virus no solo traen enfermedad; estos asesinos invisibles han rediseñado la historia de la humanidad. Cuando los imperios caen y las economías colapsan, a menudo es un patógeno microscópico el que dicta el rumbo de la civilización, forzando giros decisivos en nuestras...

形を変えて増殖する細胞の進化という壮大な謎に迫り、未知なる病への恐怖を確かな知識と安らぎへと変える画期的な医療ノンフィクションです。夜の静寂の中で一人思いを巡らせる時や、通勤の喧騒から離れて心を落ち...

Antes de los antibióticos, un simple rasguño era una sentencia de muerte bacteriana que acechaba a toda la humanidad. Este fascinante viaje por la historia de la medicina revela cómo una cadena de asombrosas casualidades transformó nuestro destino. Sumérgete en la carrera científica que...

人類最大の敵である「手術の激痛」を克服し、意識と感覚を操るという医学史上の奇跡を解き明かす、知的好奇心を刺激するノンフィクションです。毎日の通勤時間や知的な探求に没頭したい夜のリスニングに最適で、か...

The 2014 Ebola epidemic demonstrated the power of pandemics and their ability not only to destroy lives locally but also to capture the imagination and terrify the world. In 2019 and the years that followed, the coronavirus pandemic infected every continent and took the lives of millions. In this updated edition, 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.

For years after graduating from medical school, Dr. Clifton K. Meador assumed that symptoms of the body, when obviously not imaginary, indicate a disease of the body - something to be treated with drugs, surgery, or other traditional means. But, over several decades, as he saw patients with clear symptoms but no discernible disease, he concluded that his own assumptions were too narrow and, indeed, that the underlying basis for much of clinical medicine was severely limited. 

Twenty-six-year-old Mara Altman wanted to know what all the screaming was about. She'd lost her virginity at seventeen; grown up in southern California with sexually free parents; had lovers in India, Burma, and Peru; and spent a year in Bangkok observing all manner of depravity. And yet she was an attractive, successful, single woman in New York who'd never had an orgasm. And so she embarked on a wildly funny, emotionally resonant odyssey - a journey both inside and outside herself - only to discover that, for Mara, orgasm was connected to a part of her that no vibrator could reach.

Cosa significa essere un neurochirurgo? Come ci si sente ad avere in mano le sorti di una persona, mentre ci si apre un varco tra la materia grigia che ne genera i pensieri, i sentimenti e le emozioni? E, se qualcosa va storto, come si convive con le conseguenze? È ciò che scopriremo attraverso questo audiolibro, la confessione sincera e intensa di un famoso neurochirurgo inglese che, alla luce dell'esperienza quarantennale, rievoca le vittorie nelle battaglie combattute al fianco dei pazienti, ma anche le inevitabili sconfitte, gli errori e i fallimenti.

Die Art und Weise, wie wir unser Gehirn nutzen, hat einen entscheidenden Einfluss darauf, welche neuronalen Verschaltungen angelegt und stabilisiert werden - oder auch nicht. Die innere Struktur und Organisation unseres Gehirns passt sich also an seine konkrete Benutzung an. So stellt sich also die Frage, wie wir eigentlich mit unserem Gehirn umgehen müssten, damit es zur vollen Entfaltung der in ihm angelegten Möglichkeiten kommen kann.

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. In five concise chapters, historian John Fabian Witt traces the legal history of epidemics, showing how infectious disease has both shaped, and been shaped by, the law.  

This program includes an epilogue and acknowledgements read by the author “A fascinating tale of poisons and poisonous deeds which both educates and entertains.” --Kathy Reichs As any reader or listener of murder mysteries can tell you, poison is one of the most enduring—and...

On June 24, 2022, the US Supreme Court overturned the Roe v. Wade decision, asserting that the Constitution did not confer the right to abortion. This ruling, in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health case, was the culmination of a half-century of pro-life activism promoting the idea that fetuses are people and therefore entitled to the rights and protections that the Constitution guarantees. But it was also the product of a much longer history of archaic ideas about the relationship between pregnant people and the fetuses they carry.

Dispatches from the AIDS Pandemic is a unique firsthand account from three public health leaders of CDC's early response to AIDS. Drawing in part on interviews from the CDC's AIDS oral history project, the authors trace the evolution of AIDS from newly recognized disease to pandemic.