American Public Health

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    • An Account of the Trump Administration's Effect on American Democracy, Human Rights, Science and Public Health
    • By: Jack Hassard
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • This is Citizen Jack’s book, a masterful demonstration of a personal view turned sociopolitical gold. —CHARLES R. AULT JR., Professor Emeritus,...

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    • How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It
    • By: John Abramson
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 250 ratings
    • The inside story of how Big Pharma’s relentless pursuit of ever-higher profits corrupts medical knowledge—misleading doctors, misdirecting American health care, and harming our health....

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    • Why Spending More Is Getting Us Less
    • By: Elizabeth H. Bradley, Lauren A. Taylor, Harvey V. Fineberg
    • Narrated by: Emily Durante
    • Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • For decades, experts have puzzled over why the US spends more on health care but suffers poorer outcomes than other industrialized nations. This audiobook examines the research, including a comparative study of health care data from 30 countries, to get to the root of this paradox....

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    • What Broke American Health Care - and How to Fix It
    • By: Marty Makary MD
    • Narrated by: Marty Makary MD
    • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 967 ratings
    • From the New York Times best-selling author of Unaccountable comes an eye-opening, urgent look at America's broken health care system - and the people who are saving it....

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    • How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
    • By: Elisabeth Rosenthal
    • Narrated by: Nancy Linari
    • Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 996 ratings
    • Award-winning New York Times reporter Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal reveals the dangerous, expensive, and dysfunctional American health-care system....

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    • How American Health Care Killed My Father--and How We Can Fix It
    • By: David Goldhill
    • Narrated by: Dean Sluyter
    • Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 01-08-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 113 ratings
    • A visionary investigation that will change the way we think about health care....

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    • How We Lost Our Health Care System
    • By: Robert W. Derlet
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Over the past three decades, the once-efficient American health care system has evolved into a complex maze of monopolies and a racket of bureaucratic checks, approvals, denials, roadblocks, and detours....

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    • On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in an American City
    • By: Josephine Ensign
    • Narrated by: Holly Adams
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 08-17-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In Skid Road, Josephine Ensign digs through layers of Seattle history - past its leaders and prominent citizens, respectable or not - to reveal the stories of overlooked and long-silenced people who live on the margins of society....

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    • Brain Health in an Unhealthy Society
    • By: Peter J. Whitehouse, Daniel R. George
    • Narrated by: Luis Moreno
    • Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • For decades, researchers have chased a pharmaceutical cure for memory loss. But despite the fact that no disease-modifying biotech treatments have emerged, new research suggests that dementia rates have actually declined in the United States and Western Europe....

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    • The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry
    • By: Paul Starr
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 24 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 115 ratings
    • Considered the definitive history of the American healthcare system, The Social Transformation of American Medicine examines how the roles of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs have evolved over the last two and a half centuries....

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    • Rebooting American Health Care
    • By: Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein
    • Narrated by: Susan Bennett
    • Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 07-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • From a MacArthur Genius ​MIT economist and pre-eminent Stanford economist comes a lively and provocative proposal for American health insurance reform....

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    • A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City
    • By: Mona Hanna-Attisha
    • Narrated by: Mona Hanna-Attisha
    • Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 729 ratings
    • Here is the inspiring story of how Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, alongside a team of researchers, parents, friends, and community leaders, discovered that the children of Flint, Michigan, were being exposed to lead in their tap water - and then battled her own government and a brutal backlash....

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    • An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans
    • By: Wendell Potter
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 11-16-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 168 ratings
    • Wendell Potter is the insurance industry's worst nightmare....

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    • What We Need to Talk About When We Talk About Health
    • By: Sandro Galea
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Americans spend more money on health than people anywhere else in the world. And what do they get for it? Statistically, not much. Americans today live shorter, less healthy lives than citizens of other rich countries, and these trends show no signs of letting up....

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    • Inside the Battle to Bring Down the Opioid Industry
    • By: Scott Higham, Sari Horwitz
    • Narrated by: Kiff VandenHeuvel
    • Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 195 ratings
    • The definitive investigation and exposé of how some of the nation's largest corporations created and fueled the opioid crisis....

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    • Love and Death in Chicago
    • By: Alex Kotlowitz
    • Narrated by: Alex Kotlowitz
    • Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 196 ratings
    • Over the past 20 years in Chicago, 14,033 people have been killed and another roughly 60,000 wounded by gunfire. Drawing on his decades of experience, Alex Kotlowitz set out to chronicle one summer in the city, writing about individuals who have emerged from the violence....

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