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Bestsellers
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- By: Rebecca Skloot
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....
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The Secret Life of an American Cancer Cell
- By Cynthia on 08-10-13
By: Rebecca Skloot
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The Emperor of All Maladies
- A Biography of Cancer
- By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 22 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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The Emperor of All Maladies reveals the many faces of an iconic, shape-shifting disease that is the defining plague of our generation....
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Incredible
- By S.R.E. on 03-02-16
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The Moth in the Iron Lung
- A Biography of Polio
- By: Forrest Maready
- Narrated by: Forrest Maready
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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A fascinating account of the world’s most famous disease - polio - told as you have never heard it before. Epidemics of paralysis began to rage in the early 1900s, seemingly out of nowhere....
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Root Cause
- By Circlekay1 Gulfport MS on 10-24-19
By: Forrest Maready
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Destiny of the Republic
- A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
- By: Candice Millard
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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James A. Garfield may have been the most extraordinary man ever elected president....
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Marvelous, Magnificent, Millard
- By Mel on 02-08-12
By: Candice Millard
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The Song of the Cell
- An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
- By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 16 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene, a #1 New York Times bestseller, comes his most spectacular book yet, an exploration of medicine and our radical new ability to manipulate cells....
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Beyond Words Wonderful
- By Lynn on 11-27-22
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- By: Thomas S. Kuhn
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is essential listening for understanding the history, philosophy, and evolution of science....
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The problem is not with the book
- By Marcus on 08-09-09
By: Thomas S. Kuhn
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- By: Rebecca Skloot
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....
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The Secret Life of an American Cancer Cell
- By Cynthia on 08-10-13
By: Rebecca Skloot
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The Emperor of All Maladies
- A Biography of Cancer
- By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 22 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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The Emperor of All Maladies reveals the many faces of an iconic, shape-shifting disease that is the defining plague of our generation....
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Incredible
- By S.R.E. on 03-02-16
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The Moth in the Iron Lung
- A Biography of Polio
- By: Forrest Maready
- Narrated by: Forrest Maready
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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A fascinating account of the world’s most famous disease - polio - told as you have never heard it before. Epidemics of paralysis began to rage in the early 1900s, seemingly out of nowhere....
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Root Cause
- By Circlekay1 Gulfport MS on 10-24-19
By: Forrest Maready
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Destiny of the Republic
- A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
- By: Candice Millard
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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James A. Garfield may have been the most extraordinary man ever elected president....
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Marvelous, Magnificent, Millard
- By Mel on 02-08-12
By: Candice Millard
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The Song of the Cell
- An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
- By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 16 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene, a #1 New York Times bestseller, comes his most spectacular book yet, an exploration of medicine and our radical new ability to manipulate cells....
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Beyond Words Wonderful
- By Lynn on 11-27-22
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- By: Thomas S. Kuhn
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is essential listening for understanding the history, philosophy, and evolution of science....
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The problem is not with the book
- By Marcus on 08-09-09
By: Thomas S. Kuhn
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The Mosquito
- A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
- By: Timothy C. Winegard
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 19 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity’s fate....
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Major Disappointment
- By Amazon Customer on 09-02-19
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Gray Matters
- A Biography of Brain Surgery
- By: Theodore H. Schwartz
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Neurosurgeon and professor of neurosurgery Theodore H. Schwartz explores what it’s like to hold the scalpel, wield the drill, extract a tumor, fix a bullet hole, and remove a blood clot—when every second can mean life or death.
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Warpspeed historybof Neurosurgery, from stone age to Computer Brain Interfaces, brilliant and engrossing
- By Sandford J. on 09-03-24
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The Gene
- An Intimate History
- By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 19 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Mukherjee animates the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices....
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It's a Wonderful Book
- By JKC on 06-02-16
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The Butchering Art
- Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
- By: Lindsey Fitzharris
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
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In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of 19th-century surgery on the eve of profound transformation....
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Not one boring moment!
- By WRWF on 12-22-17
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Complications
- A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
- By: Atul Gawande
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine....
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FALLIBILITY, MYSTERY AND UNCERTAINTY
- By AnnH on 10-04-20
By: Atul Gawande
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The Great Mortality
- An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
- By: John Kelly
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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The Great Plague is one of the most compelling events in human history—even more so now, when the notion of plague has never loomed larger as a contemporary public concern....
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Endless Speculation and Contradiction
- By Greg on 04-20-24
By: John Kelly
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Vital Organs
- By: Suzie Edge
- Narrated by: Suzie Edge
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
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A journey through history's most famous limbs, organs, and appendages, from TikTok medical historian Dr Suzie Edge....
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Interesting, Educational, and Occasionally Funny
- By Tricia A. Hamblin on 01-08-24
By: Suzie Edge
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A Taste for Poison
- Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
- By: Neil Bradbury Ph.D.
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Drawn from historical records and current news headlines, A Taste for Poison weaves together the tales of spurned lovers, shady scientists, medical professionals, and political assassins to show how the precise systems of the body can be impaired to lethal effect....
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Poison, Murder, and So Much More!
- By Rebecca Hill on 02-12-22
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Complications
- A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
- By: Atul Gawande
- Narrated by: William David Griffith
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Abridged
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Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate...
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It's about time...
- By T.K. on 05-31-03
By: Atul Gawande
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And the Band Played On
- Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
- By: Randy Shilts
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 31 hrs and 44 mins
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And the Band Played On is both a tribute to these heroic people and a stinging indictment of the institutions that failed the nation so badly....
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The subtitle says it all!
- By January Johnson on 03-19-13
By: Randy Shilts
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Our Malady
- Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary
- By: Timothy Snyder
- Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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From the author of the number-one New York Times best seller On Tyranny comes an impassioned condemnation of America's pandemic response and an urgent call to rethink health and freedom....
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Our Medical System Flayed
- By J.B. on 09-08-20
By: Timothy Snyder
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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
- Unabridged
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Atul Gawande explores how doctors strive for best performance in the face of obstacles that sometimes seem insurmountable - in Boston, India, Iraq, and in malpractice courtrooms....
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A MUST read . . .
- By Kathy in CA on 08-11-14
By: Atul Gawande
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Profiles in Mental Health Courage
- By: Patrick J. Kennedy, Stephen Fried
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller, Patrick J. Kennedy
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2015, Patrick J. Kennedy shared the story of his struggle with mental health and addiction in his bestselling memoir; now he reframes how we talk about mental well-being by sharing the powerful stories of others....
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Thank you!
- By Me on 07-03-24
By: Patrick J. Kennedy, and others
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The Oldest Cure in the World
- Adventures in the Art and Science of Fasting
- By: Steve Hendricks
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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A journalist takes listeners into the science and history of intermittent fasting, an ancient practice in the middle of a red-hot resurgence, exploring the body's power to heal itself....
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Great history, light on the science
- By Dvdmon on 09-16-22
By: Steve Hendricks
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The Great Influenza
- The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
- By: John M. Barry
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In the winter of 1918, at the height of World War I, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide....
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Great book but very disturbing...
- By Tim on 01-15-09
By: John M. Barry
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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
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In this eyewitness story of how the anti-vaccine movement grew into a dangerous and prominent anti-science element in American politics, Dr. Peter J. Hotez describes the devastating impacts it has had on Americans’ health and lives....
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The Truth Be Told!
- By Placeholder on 01-14-24
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ShadowMan
- An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling
- By: Ron Franscell
- Narrated by: Patty Nieman, Chris Berger
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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ShadowMan is the pulse-pounding account of the first time in history that the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit created a psychological profile to catch a serial killer....
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Excellent book,but heartbreaking subject matter.
- By Maureen Ohalleran on 03-04-22
By: Ron Franscell
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Vaccinated
- From Cowpox to mRNA, the Remarkable Story of Vaccines
- By: Paul A. Offit
- Narrated by: Tim Dixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
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Respected physician Paul Offit tells a fascinating story of modern medicine and pays tribute to one of the greatest lifesaving breakthroughs—vaccinations—and the medical hero responsible for developing nine of the big fourteen vaccines which have saved billions of lives worldwide....
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Must read for pediatric professionals and public health professional
- By laithejeilat on 04-15-24
By: Paul A. Offit
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The Urge
- Our History of Addiction
- By: Carl Erik Fisher
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
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As a psychiatrist in training fresh from medical school, Carl Erik Fisher found himself face-to-face with an addiction crisis that nearly cost him everything.
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Nailed it
- By Paully on 11-23-22
By: Carl Erik Fisher
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An Anthropologist on Mars
- Seven Paradoxical Tales
- By: Oliver Sacks
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Oliver Sacks
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
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To these seven narratives of neurological disorder Dr. Sacks brings the same humanity, poetic observation, and infectious sense of wonder....
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SACKS IS AN ABSOLUTE JOY !!
- By Jeff on 09-22-13
By: Oliver Sacks
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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
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David Oshinsky chronicles the history of America's oldest hospital and in so doing also charts the rise of New York to the nation's preeminent city, the path of American medicine....
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Fascinating
- By Jean on 12-14-16
By: David Oshinsky
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Quackery
- A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
- By: Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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What won't we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth? Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine was dosed like Viagra....
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Computer-generated Narrator. Dated Humour.
- By Nemo on 12-28-18
By: Lydia Kang, and others
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Taking Care
- The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World
- By: Sarah DiGregorio
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In this sweeping cultural history of nursing from the Stone Age to the present, the critically acclaimed author of Early pays homage to the profession and makes an urgent call for change....
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Real appreciation of nursing
- By Freeheelingirlie on 05-11-24
By: Sarah DiGregorio
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The Contagion of Liberty
- The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution
- By: Andrew M. Wehrman
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Contagion of Liberty, Andrew M. Wehrman describes a revolution within a revolution, where the violent insistence for freedom from disease ultimately helped American colonists achieve independence from Great Britain....
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New information to me
- By Chuck on 06-16-23