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Can Medicine Be Cured?
- By: Seamus O'Mahony
- Narrated by: Seamus O’Mahony
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Seamus O'Mahony writes about the illusion of progress, the notion that more and more diseases can be "conquered" ad infinitum. He punctures the idiocy of consumerism, the idea that healthcare can be endlessly adapted to the wishes of individuals. He excoriates the claims of Big Science, the spending of vast sums on research follies like the Human Genome Project. And he highlights one of the most dangerous errors of industrialized medicine: an over-reliance on metrics, and a neglect of things that can't easily be measured, like compassion.
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Can Medicine Be Cured?
- Narrated by: Seamus O’Mahony
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 14-09-23
- Language: English
- History & Commentary
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Damnation Island
- Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
- By: Stacy Horn
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell's Island. There, over the next hundred years, the city would build a lunatic asylum, prison, hospital, workhouse, and almshouse. Stacy Horn has crafted a compelling and chilling narrative told through the stories of the poor souls sent to Blackwell's, as well as the period's city officials, reformers, and journalists (including the famous Nellie Bly). Damnation Island re-creates what daily life was like on the island....
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Really good but narration is off
- By PHILIP HARTY on 23-01-19
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Damnation Island
- Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 15-05-18
- Language: English
- Crime · Americas · History & Commentary
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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
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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
- History · Science · World
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Havana Syndrome
- Mass Psychogenic Illness and the Real Story Behind the Embassy Mystery and Hysteria
- By: Robert E. Bartholomew, Robert W. Baloh
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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In this scientific detective story and a case study in the social construction of mass psychogenic illness, the authors provide dozens of examples of kindred episodes of mass hysteria throughout history, in addition to psychosomatic conditions and even the role of insects in triggering outbreaks.
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A Bit Boring, and Not Exactly Persuasive
- By catherinespark on 24-03-24
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Havana Syndrome
- Mass Psychogenic Illness and the Real Story Behind the Embassy Mystery and Hysteria
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 28-09-21
- Language: English
- History & Commentary · Psychology
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Still Not Safe
- Patient Safety and the Middle-Managing of American Medicine
- By: Robert L. Wears, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Still Not Safe is the story of the rise of the patient - safety movement - and how an "epidemic" of medical errors was derived from a reality that didn't support such a characterization. Physician Robert Wears and organizational theorist Kathleen Sutcliffe trace the origins of patient safety to the emergence of market trends that challenged the place of doctors in the larger medical ecosystem.
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A must read for all QI Cultists
- By MJ on 01-12-21
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Still Not Safe
- Patient Safety and the Middle-Managing of American Medicine
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 02-06-20
- Language: English
- Health Care · History & Commentary
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The Curious History of the Heart
- A Cultural and Scientific Journey
- By: Vincent M. Figueredo
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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For much of recorded history, people considered the heart to be the most important organ in the body. In cultures around the world, the heart—not the brain—was believed to be the location of intelligence, memory, emotion, and the soul. Over time, views on the purpose of the heart have transformed. Modern medicine and science dismissed what was once the king of the organs as a mere blood pump subservient to the brain, yet the heart remains a potent symbol of love and health and an important part of our cultural iconography.
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The Curious History of the Heart
- A Cultural and Scientific Journey
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 13-02-24
- Language: English
- Biological Sciences · History & Commentary
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Doctors at War: Life and Death in a Field Hospital
- The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
- By: Mark de Rond
- Narrated by: Alan Roy
- Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Doctors at War is a candid account of a trauma surgical team based, for a tour of duty, at a field hospital in Helmand, Afghanistan. Mark de Rond tells of the highs and lows of surgical life in hard-hitting detail, bringing to life a morally ambiguous world in which good people face impossible choices and in which routines designed to normalize experience have the unintended effect of highlighting war’s absurdity. With stories that are at once comical and tragic, de Rond captures the surreal experience of being a doctor at war.
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A fantastic first listen!
- By Yasmin Abou-Amer on 04-10-20
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Doctors at War: Life and Death in a Field Hospital
- The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
- Narrated by: Alan Roy
- Series: The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
- Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 30-09-20
- Language: English
- War · Anthropology · History & Commentary
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The Great Influenza
- The True Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Young Readers Edition)
- By: John M. Barry
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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#1 New York Times bestseller “Barry will teach you almost everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history.”—Bill Gates "Monumental... an authoritative and disturbing morality tale."—Chicago Tribune The strongest weapon against pandemic is the truth. Read...
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The Great Influenza
- The True Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Young Readers Edition)
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 16-04-24
- Language: English
- Contagious Diseases · History & Commentary
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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
- Unabridged
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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
- War · Europe · France
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Twelve Diseases That Changed Our World
- Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 27-04-21
- Language: English
- Contagious Diseases · History & Commentary
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Ritual and Myths in Nursing
- A Social History
- By: Claire Laurent
- Narrated by: Poppy Manley
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Nursing is a complex profession steeped in tradition and history. Tried-and-tested ways of working have been the mainstay of how and why nurses do what they do. Science and evidence-based practice have weakened the hold on tradition but ritual is still part of the fabric of nursing. Packed with amusing and sometimes poignant reminiscences, this book paints a picture of nursing from the first registration of SRN No 1, Ethel Bedford Fenwick in 1919, to the present day.
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Ritual and Myths in Nursing
- A Social History
- Narrated by: Poppy Manley
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 07-02-23
- Language: English
- History & Commentary
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The Doctor Will See You Now
- Essays on the Changing Practice of Medicine
- By: Cory Franklin MD
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
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Is it smart to skip your annual physical? Should you put your trust in medical research? Is "low T" an actual disease? This book will examine these questions and more you've always wondered about in a collection of 50 essays on the medicine. The Doctor Will See You Now is a quirky and eclectic collection of short essays that explore evolving patient-physician relationship and reporting on medicine; famous doctors and notorious patients; surprising hospital practices and the future of healthcare; medical research, ethics, drugs, and money; and the brave new world of neurology.
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The Doctor Will See You Now
- Essays on the Changing Practice of Medicine
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 01-04-18
- Language: English
- Health Care · History & Commentary · Sociology
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Singular Intimacies
- Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue
- By: Danielle Ofri MD
- Narrated by: Ann M. Richardson
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
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A “finely gifted writer” shares 15 “brilliantly written episodes covering the years from studenthood to the end of medical residency” at Bellevue Hospital (Oliver Sacks, MD, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat). Singular Intimacies is the story of becoming a doctor by...
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Wonderful
- By Julietwendy. on 10-02-18
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Singular Intimacies
- Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue
- Narrated by: Ann M. Richardson
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 06-02-18
- Language: English
- Education & Training · History & Commentary
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Cardiac Cowboys
- The Heroic Invention of Heart Surgery
- By: Gerald Imber MD
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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A decade after World War II, there was still no such thing as open-heart surgery, and yet half a million Americans were dying from heart disease every year. After the first daring operation in 1954 and through the next three decades, five heroic surgeons braved the scorn of their peers, withstood fierce desperation, and faced possible death in order to devise procedures that would save overwhelming numbers of those doomed children and provide hope for a new life to all manner of heart-failing individuals.
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Cardiac Cowboys
- The Heroic Invention of Heart Surgery
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 28-01-25
- Language: English
- Heart Disease · History & Commentary · Medical
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An End to Upside Down Medicine
- Contagion, Viruses, and Vaccines—and Why Consciousness Is Needed for a New Paradigm of Health
- By: Mark Gober
- Narrated by: Mark Gober
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Mark Gober dives into fundamental beliefs about health and disease. These beliefs are so fundamental, in fact, that most of us probably haven’t thought to question them. For example, do bacteria cause disease, or are they part of the body’s cleanup crew that appears at the scene of an underlying toxicity or injury? Do researchers follow the scientific method when they claim to isolate viruses and show that they cause disease in their hosts? In addition to exploring these essential questions, Gober goes a layer deeper by examining the nature of consciousness.
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An End to Upside Down Medicine
- Contagion, Viruses, and Vaccines—and Why Consciousness Is Needed for a New Paradigm of Health
- Narrated by: Mark Gober
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 28-11-23
- Language: English
- Biological Sciences · Contagious Diseases
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The History of Medicine in Twelve Objects
- By: Carol Cooper
- Narrated by: Carol Cooper
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Discover the fascinating history of medicine from its primitive beginnings to the lifesaving technologies of today. Award-winning author Dr Carol Cooper takes you on a journey through the 12 objects that have come to define medicine through the ages – from the barbaric and bizarre to the...
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The History of Medicine in Twelve Objects
- Narrated by: Carol Cooper
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 22-10-24
- Language: English
- History & Commentary · Sociology
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More, Please
- On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for ""Enough""
- By: Emma Specter
- Narrated by: Erin deWard
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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ONE OF TIME 100'S MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2024 A DEBUTIFUL BEST BOOK OF 2024 FEATURED IN NYLON W MAGAZINE GLAMOUR BOOK RIOT HEYALMA BUSTLE ELECTRIC LITERATURE ROMPER AND MORE! ""Tender, funny, angry, and sharp as hell. This is an essential book for anyone with...
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More, Please
- On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for ""Enough""
- Narrated by: Erin deWard
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 09-07-24
- Language: English
- Health · Gender Studies · History & Commentary
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Virus Hunt
- The Search for the Origin of HIV
- By: Dorothy H. Crawford
- Narrated by: Alice Gilmour
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
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The hunt for the origin of the AIDS virus began over 20 years ago. It was a journey that went around the world and involved painstaking research to unravel how, when, and where the virus first infected humans. Dorothy H. Crawford traces the story back to the remote rain forests of Africa - home to the primates that carry the ancestral virus - and reveals how HIV-1 first jumped from chimpanzees to humans in rural southeast Cameroon. Examining how this happened, and how it then travelled back to Colonial west central Africa where it eventually exploded as a pandemic, she asks why and how it was able to spread so widely.
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Virus Hunt
- The Search for the Origin of HIV
- Narrated by: Alice Gilmour
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 12-05-14
- Language: English
- Contagious Diseases · History & Commentary
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Bellevue
- Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital
- By: David Oshinsky
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine. Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of mangled crime...
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Bellevue
- Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 15-11-16
- Language: English
- New York · Americas · Health Care
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The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science
- A Scientist's Warning
- By: Peter J. Hotez MD PhD
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, one renowned scientist, in his famous bowtie, appeared daily on major news networks such as MSNBC, NPR, the BBC, and others. Dr. Peter J. Hotez often went without sleep, working around the clock to develop a nonprofit COVID-19 vaccine and to keep the public informed. During that time, he was one of the most trusted voices on the pandemic and was even nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for his selfless work. He also became one of the main targets of anti-science rhetoric that gained traction through conservative news media.
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The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science
- A Scientist's Warning
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 10-10-23
- Language: English
- History & Commentary · Media Studies
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