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Sickening
- Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States
- By: Anne Pollock
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
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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.
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Sickening
- Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 10-05-22
- Language: English
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The World's Emergency Room
- The Growing Threat to Doctors, Nurses, and Humanitarian Workers
- By: Michael VanRooyen
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Twenty years ago the most common cause of death for medical humanitarians and other aid workers was traffic accidents; today it is violent attacks. And the death of each doctor, nurse, paramedic, midwife, and vaccinator is multiplied untold times in the vulnerable populations deprived of their care. In a 2005 report, the ICRC found that for every soldier killed in the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, more than 60 civilians died due to loss of immunizations and other basic health services.
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The World's Emergency Room
- The Growing Threat to Doctors, Nurses, and Humanitarian Workers
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 19-07-16
- Language: English
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The Danger Within Us
- America’s Untested, Unregulated Medical Device Industry and One Man’s Battle to Survive It
- By: Jeanne Lenzer
- Narrated by: Jeanne Lenzer
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Did you know... Medical interventions have become the third leading cause of death in America. An estimated 10 percent of Americans are implanted with medical devices -- like pacemakers, artificial hips, cardiac stents, etc. The overwhelming majority of high-risk implanted devices have never...
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A much needed book
- By Modupe Blight on 11-12-20
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The Danger Within Us
- America’s Untested, Unregulated Medical Device Industry and One Man’s Battle to Survive It
- Narrated by: Jeanne Lenzer
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 12-12-17
- Language: English
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Epidemics
- Hate and Compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS
- By: Samuel Kline Cohn Jr.
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 29 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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By investigating thousands of descriptions of epidemics reaching back before the fifth-century-BCE Plague of Athens to the distrust and violence that erupted with Ebola in 2014, Epidemics challenges a dominant hypothesis in the study of epidemics, that invariably across time and space, epidemics provoked hatred, blaming of the "other", and victimizing bearers of epidemic diseases, particularly when diseases were mysterious, without known cures or preventive measures.
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So detailed information
- By Amazon Customer on 23-08-24
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Epidemics
- Hate and Compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 29 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 16-10-18
- Language: English
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Asleep
- The Forgotten Epidemic That Became Medicine’s Greatest Mystery
- By: Molly Caldwell Crosby
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
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A fascinating look at a bizarre, forgotten epidemic from the national best-selling author of The American Plague. In 1918, a world war raged, and a lethal strain of influenza circled the globe. In the midst of all this death, a bizarre disease appeared in Europe. Eventually known as encephalitis lethargica, or sleeping sickness, it spread worldwide, leaving millions dead or locked in institutions. Then, in 1927, it disappeared as suddenly as it arrived.
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disappointing
- By S Het on 14-08-17
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Asleep
- The Forgotten Epidemic That Became Medicine’s Greatest Mystery
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 04-04-13
- Language: English
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The American Plague
- The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, The Epidemic That Shaped Our History
- By: Molly Caldwell Crosby
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1900, the U.S. sent three doctors to Cuba to discover how yellow fever was spread. There, they launched one of history's most controversial human studies. Compelling and terrifying, The American Plague depicts the story of yellow fever and its reign in this country - and in Africa, where even today it strikes thousands every year. With "arresting tales of heroism," it is a story as much about the nature of human beings as it is about the nature of disease.
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The American Plague
- The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, The Epidemic That Shaped Our History
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 05-12-17
- Language: English
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The Year the World Went Mad
- By: Mark Woolhouse
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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In January 2020, leading epidemiologist Professor Mark Woolhouse learned of a new virus taking hold in China. He immediately foresaw a hard road ahead for the entire world, and emailed the Chief Medical Officer of Scotland warning that the UK should urgently begin preparations. A few days later he received a polite reply stating only that everything was under control.
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More Lies & Misinformation
- By Amazon Customer on 25-04-22
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The Year the World Went Mad
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 24-02-22
- Language: English
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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
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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
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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
- Unabridged
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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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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
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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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Direct Red
- By: Gabriel Weston
- Narrated by: Claire Wille
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
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How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands? What is it like to cut into someone else's body? What is it like to stand by, powerless, while someone dies because of the incompetence of your seniors? How do you tell a beautiful young man who seems perfectly fit that he has only a few days left to live? Gabriel Weston worked in the big-city hospitals of the 21st century; a woman in a place dominated by Alpha males. Her world was one of disease, suffering and extraordinary pressure where a certain moral ambiguity and clinical detachment were necessary tools for survival.
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Great story, very poor audio editing
- By Ruth on 19-01-26
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Direct Red
- Narrated by: Claire Wille
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 30-06-13
- Language: English
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How to Make a Killing
- Blood, Death, and Dollars in American Medicine
- By: Tom Mueller
- Narrated by: Melissa Kay Benson
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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Six decades ago, visionary doctors achieved the impossible: the humble kidney, acknowledged since ancient times to be as essential to life as the heart, became the first human organ to be successfully replaced with a machine. Yet huge dialysis corporations, ambitious doctor-entrepreneurs, and Beltway lobbyists soon turned this medical miracle into an early experiment in for-profit medicine—and one of the nation's worst healthcare catastrophes. With powerful insight and on-the-ground reporting, Tom Mueller introduces an unforgettable cast of characters.
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How to Make a Killing
- Blood, Death, and Dollars in American Medicine
- Narrated by: Melissa Kay Benson
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 24-10-23
- Language: English
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The Black Death
- A Global History of Humanity's Most Devastating Pandemic
- By: Thomas Asbridge
- Narrated by: Thomas Asbridge, Justin Avoth
- Length: 19 hrs and 1 min
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“A magisterial history” (The Guardian) of humanity’s greatest natural disaster—the Black Death—that reveals the true global impact and terrible human cost of this calamity, from the renowned author of The Crusades and The Greatest Knight. “Terrific—and truly terrifying. Thomas...
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The Black Death
- A Global History of Humanity's Most Devastating Pandemic
- Narrated by: Thomas Asbridge, Justin Avoth
- Length: 19 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 26-05-26
- Language: English
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The Beating Heart
- The Art and Science of Our Most Vital Organ
- By: Robin Choudhury
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
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Bloomsbury presents The Beating Heart: The Art and Science of Our Most Vital Organ by Robin Choudhury, read by John Telfer. In The Beating Heart, Robin Choudhury explores how the heart has been represented over time and across cultures. He investigates the interplay between the heart depictions...
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Wide-ranging and fascinating
- By jojno on 25-10-24
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The Beating Heart
- The Art and Science of Our Most Vital Organ
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 10-10-24
- Language: English
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Duel Without End
- Mankind’s Battle with Microbes
- By: Stig S. Frøland, John Irons - translator
- Narrated by: Daniel Thomas May
- Length: 20 hrs and 41 mins
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In this panoramic account, we learn how great epidemics have not only led to enormous suffering and mass death but also changed the course of history. Humanity has struck back at the microbes: antibiotics and new vaccines have saved millions of lives. But the battle is far from won. We face increasing threats from new and unavoidable pandemics, antibiotic resistance, and even potential extraterrestrial microbes. Duel Without End is a fascinating journey through the long history of infection, from the dawn of life to humanity's future exploration of deep space.
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Duel Without End
- Mankind’s Battle with Microbes
- Narrated by: Daniel Thomas May
- Length: 20 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 17-05-22
- Language: English
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The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth
- And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine
- By: Thomas Morris
- Narrated by: Thomas Morris, Ruper Farley
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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"Delightfully horrifying."--Popular Science One of Mental Floss's Best Books of 2018 One of Science Friday's Best Science Books of 2018 This wryly humorous collection of stories about bizarre medical treatments and cases offers a unique portrait of a bygone era in all its jaw-dropping weirdness...
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The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth
- And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine
- Narrated by: Thomas Morris, Ruper Farley
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 20-11-18
- 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
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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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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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Booster Shots
- The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncertain Future of Children's Health
- By: Adam Ratner MD MPH
- Narrated by: Adam Ratner MD MPH
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
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A pediatrician and infectious disease specialist warns of the resurgence of measles, the antivaccine movement, and how we can prepare for the next pandemic Every single child diagnosed with measles represents a system failure—an inexcusable unforced error. The technology to prevent essentially...
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Booster Shots
- The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncertain Future of Children's Health
- Narrated by: Adam Ratner MD MPH
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 11-02-25
- Language: English
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