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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- De: Rebecca Skloot
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 12 h y 30 m
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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
- De Cynthia en 08-10-13
De: Rebecca Skloot
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Profiles in Mental Health Courage
- De: Patrick J. Kennedy, Stephen Fried
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller, Patrick J. Kennedy
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
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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....
De: Patrick J. Kennedy, y otros
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The Song of the Cell
- An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
- De: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Duración: 16 h y 3 m
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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
- De Lynn en 11-27-22
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The Emperor of All Maladies
- A Biography of Cancer
- De: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 22 h y 18 m
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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
- De S.R.E. en 03-02-16
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The Gene
- An Intimate History
- De: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Duración: 19 h y 22 m
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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
- De JKC en 06-02-16
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Destiny of the Republic
- A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
- De: Candice Millard
- Narrado por: Paul Michael
- Duración: 9 h y 47 m
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James A. Garfield may have been the most extraordinary man ever elected president....
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Marvelous, Magnificent, Millard
- De Mel en 02-08-12
De: Candice Millard
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- De: Rebecca Skloot
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 12 h y 30 m
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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
- De Cynthia en 08-10-13
De: Rebecca Skloot
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Profiles in Mental Health Courage
- De: Patrick J. Kennedy, Stephen Fried
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller, Patrick J. Kennedy
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
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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....
De: Patrick J. Kennedy, y otros
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The Song of the Cell
- An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
- De: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Duración: 16 h y 3 m
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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
- De Lynn en 11-27-22
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The Emperor of All Maladies
- A Biography of Cancer
- De: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 22 h y 18 m
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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
- De S.R.E. en 03-02-16
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The Gene
- An Intimate History
- De: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Duración: 19 h y 22 m
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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
- De JKC en 06-02-16
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Destiny of the Republic
- A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
- De: Candice Millard
- Narrado por: Paul Michael
- Duración: 9 h y 47 m
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James A. Garfield may have been the most extraordinary man ever elected president....
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Marvelous, Magnificent, Millard
- De Mel en 02-08-12
De: Candice Millard
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The Medicine Book
- De: DK
- Narrado por: Jonathan Oliver
- Duración: 16 h y 59 m
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This audiobook explores big questions like these, explaining the breakthroughs and discoveries that have shaped our modern-day understanding of medicine and helped us protect and promote our health....
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super diverse topics
- De Matthew M. en 04-04-24
De: DK
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The Moth in the Iron Lung
- A Biography of Polio
- De: Forrest Maready
- Narrado por: Forrest Maready
- Duración: 5 h y 54 m
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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
- De Circlekay1 Gulfport MS en 10-24-19
De: Forrest Maready
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- De: Thomas S. Kuhn
- Narrado por: Dennis Holland
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
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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
- De Marcus en 08-09-09
De: Thomas S. Kuhn
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Better
- A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
- De: Atul Gawande
- Narrado por: John Bedford Lloyd
- Duración: 7 h y 34 m
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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 . . .
- De Kathy in CA en 08-11-14
De: Atul Gawande
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Vaccines, Autoimmunity, and the Changing Nature of Childhood Illness
- De: Thomas Cowan MD
- Narrado por: Madison Niederhauser
- Duración: 4 h y 17 m
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Over the past 50 years, rates of autoimmunity and chronic disease have exploded. In this provocative book, Dr. Thomas Cowan argues for a direct causal relationship to a corresponding increase in the number of vaccines American children typically receive....
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Hear both sides
- De SJ en 01-24-20
De: Thomas Cowan MD
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Unwell Women
- Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
- De: Elinor Cleghorn
- Narrado por: Hanako Footman
- Duración: 14 h y 8 m
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A trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women’s health - from the earliest medical ideas about women’s illnesses to hormones and autoimmune diseases - brought together in a fascinating, sweeping narrative....
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Profound Read; A Sincere Stepping Stone to Understanding My Own Why
- De Nicole en 07-23-21
De: Elinor Cleghorn
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A Body Made of Glass
- A Cultural History of Hypochondria
- De: Caroline Crampton
- Narrado por: Caroline Crampton
- Duración: 9 h y 23 m
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Caroline Crampton’s life was upended at the age of seventeen, when she was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a relatively rare blood cancer. After years of invasive treatment, she was finally given the all clear. But being cured of the cancer didn’t mean she felt well.
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Astonishing truths from someone who has been there
- De PMerrell en 05-07-24
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The Butchering Art
- Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
- De: Lindsey Fitzharris
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
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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!
- De WRWF en 12-22-17
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The Great Influenza
- The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
- De: John M. Barry
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 19 h y 26 m
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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...
- De Tim en 01-15-09
De: John M. Barry
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The Oldest Cure in the World
- Adventures in the Art and Science of Fasting
- De: Steve Hendricks
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 17 h y 44 m
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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
- De Dvdmon en 09-16-22
De: Steve Hendricks
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Witches, Midwives & Nurses, 2nd Ed
- A History of Women Healers
- De: Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English
- Narrado por: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
- Duración: 1 h y 55 m
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Witches, Midwives, and Nurses examines how women-led healing was delegitimized to make way for patriarchy, capitalism, and the emerging medical industry....
De: Barbara Ehrenreich, y otros
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American Sirens
- The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
- De: Kevin Hazzard
- Narrado por: Gilbert Glenn Brown
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
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The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the world....
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Requires Reading for EMS
- De Trey en 04-28-24
De: Kevin Hazzard
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Quackery
- A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
- De: Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 10 h y 29 m
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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.
- De Nemo en 12-28-18
De: Lydia Kang, y otros
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How to Make a Killing
- Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine
- De: Tom Mueller
- Narrado por: Melissa Kay Benson
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
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How to Make a Killing reveals dialysis as a microcosm of American medicine and poses a vital challenge: find a way to fix dialysis, and we'll have a fighting chance of fixing our country's dysfunctional healthcare system as a whole, restoring patients, not profits, as its true purpose....
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NME - The McDonald’izing of healthcare
- De Jillian Astra England en 04-30-24
De: Tom Mueller
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The Great Mortality
- An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
- De: John Kelly
- Narrado por: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Duración: 12 h y 55 m
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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
- De Greg en 04-20-24
De: John Kelly
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Complications
- A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
- De: Atul Gawande
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
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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
- De AnnH en 10-04-20
De: Atul Gawande
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The Truth About Covid-19
- Exposing the Great Reset, Lockdowns, Vaccine Passports, and the New Normal
- De: Dr. Joseph Mercola, Ronnie Cummins
- Narrado por: Nolan Chase
- Duración: 7 h y 55 m
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Since early 2020, the world has experienced a series of catastrophic events - a global pandemic caused by a so-called novel coronavirus; international lockdowns and border closings causing widespread business closures, economic collapse, and massive unemployment....
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A must read
- De danithang en 05-07-21
De: Dr. Joseph Mercola, y otros
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The Urge
- Our History of Addiction
- De: Carl Erik Fisher
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 11 h y 20 m
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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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The Best Addiction/Recovery Book
- De treena meyer en 04-21-22
De: Carl Erik Fisher
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The Invention of Surgery
- A History of Modern Medicine: From the Renaissance to the Implant Revolution
- De: David Schneider MD
- Narrado por: Peter Noble
- Duración: 23 h y 4 m
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Written by an author with plenty of experience holding a scalpel, Dr. David Schneider's in-depth biography is an encompassing history of the practice that has leapt forward over the centuries from the dangerous guesswork of ancient Greek physicians....
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Yup, this is the one you’re looking for...
- De richard clark en 07-19-20
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And the Band Played On
- Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
- De: Randy Shilts
- Narrado por: Victor Bevine
- Duración: 31 h y 44 m
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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!
- De Jan Mitchell Johnson en 03-19-13
De: Randy Shilts
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Mapping the Darkness
- The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep
- De: Kenneth Miller
- Narrado por: James Fouhey
- Duración: 11 h y 43 m
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Award-winning journalist Kenneth Miller weaves together science and history to tell the story of four outsider scientists who took sleep science from fringe discipline to mainstream obsession through spectacular experiments, technological innovation, and single-minded commitment....
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Very detailed and interesting
- De Darcy en 01-24-24
De: Kenneth Miller
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The Facemaker
- A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
- De: Lindsey Fitzharris
- Narrado por: Daniel Gillies
- Duración: 8 h y 15 m
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Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true story of a visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War’s injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgery....
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My favorite author
- De Dani en 06-07-22
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Vital Organs
- De: Suzie Edge
- Narrado por: Suzie Edge
- Duración: 6 h y 48 m
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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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OMG!Love History
- De Kellie Mathieu en 01-23-24
De: Suzie Edge
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Plagues and Peoples
- De: William H. McNeill
- Narrado por: Douglas James
- Duración: 10 h y 47 m
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Brilliantly conceptualized, William H. McNeill's Plagues and Peoples tells the history of disease is the history of humankind: an interpretation of the world as seen through the extraordinary impact—political, demographic, ecological, and psychological—of disease on cultures.