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    • Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
    • By: Gabor Maté MD, Daniel Maté
    • Narrated by: Daniel Maté
    • Length: 18 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,520 ratings
    • By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts comes a groundbreaking investigation into the causes of illness, a bracing critique of how our society breeds disease, and a pathway to health and healing....

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    • Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture
    • By: Gabor Maté, Daniel Maté
    • Narrated by: Daniel Maté
    • Length: 18 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 97 ratings
    • Mental illness is on an unstoppable rise. Some 45 percent of Europeans suffer high blood pressure, and nearly 70 percent of Americans take at least one prescription drug. Illness and trauma are defining how we live....

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    • The Influenza Pandemic of 1918
    • By: Albert Marrin
    • Narrated by: Jim Frangione
    • Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 161 ratings
    • From National Book Award finalist Albert Marrin comes a fascinating look at the history and science of the deadly 1918 flu pandemic - and its chilling and timely resemblance to the worldwide coronavirus outbreak....

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    • Trauma, saúde e cura em um mundo doente [Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture]
    • By: Gabor Maté, Daniel Maté
    • Narrated by: Matias Correa
    • Length: 22 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-23
    • Language: Portuguese
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Gabor Maté discute os mitos mais comuns sobre a origem das doenças e a natureza dos vícios, revelando conexões surpreendentes entre o sofrimento individual e o papel da sociedade no adoecimento coletivo....

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    • How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
    • By: Roy Richard Grinker
    • Narrated by: Lyle Blaker
    • Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • A compassionate and captivating examination of evolving attitudes toward mental illness throughout history and the fight to end the stigma....

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    • The Science, Culture, and History of Breast Cancer in America
    • By: Kate Pickert
    • Narrated by: Kate Pickert
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • As a health-care journalist, Kate Pickert knew the emotional highs and lows of medical treatment well - but always from a distance, through the stories of her subjects. That is, until she was unexpectedly diagnosed with an aggressive type of breast cancer....

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    • How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It
    • By: Jason Karlawish
    • Narrated by: Jason Karlawish, Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Rich in science, history, and characters, The Problem of Alzheimer's takes us inside laboratories, patients' homes, caregivers’ support groups, progressive care communities, and Jason Karlawish's own practice at the Penn Memory Center....

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    • A Brother, His Doctors, and the Quest for a Cure to Childhood Leukemia
    • By: Tim Wendel, Martin Brecher MD
    • Narrated by: Tim Wendel
    • Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 04-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • When Eric Wendel was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 1966, the survival rate was less than 10 percent. Today, it is 90 percent. Even as politicians call for a "Cancer Moonshot", this accomplishment remains a pinnacle in cancer research....

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    • How a Germophobic Safety Culture Makes Us Less Safe
    • By: Steve Templeton
    • Narrated by: David Turner
    • Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Fear of a Microbial Planet, a sweeping treatise on the COVID era published by Brownstone Institute, offers desperately needed clarity and science on the organization and management of individual social life in the presence of pathogenic infection....

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    • The Culture and Science of Pain
    • By: Connie R. Faltynek PhD
    • Narrated by: Warren Kati
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Pain is the number one reason people schedule medical appointments. Yet many people do not receive adequate relief, especially for chronic pain. Pain: The Culture and Science of Pain describes the multiple factors that contribute to the ongoing problem of unrelieved pain.

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    • Understanding Mental Illness Through Film
    • By: James Charney MD
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Psychiatrist and long-time cinephile James Charney explores how mental illness is portrayed in classic and contemporary films....

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    • How a Single, 39-Year-Old Woman Refused to Let Breast Cancer and Its Fervent Culture Define Her
    • By: Dena Taylor
    • Narrated by: Dena Taylor
    • Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • A month before she was to celebrate her 40th birthday in Italy, Dena Taylor was diagnosed with breast cancer. In seconds, she was transformed from enthusiastic traveler to frightened patient....

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    • Understanding Our Sleeping and Sleepless Minds
    • By: Darian Leader
    • Narrated by: Roy McMillan
    • Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Why Can't We Sleep? by Darian Leader....

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    • Science, Awareness, and Community in Times of Global Crises
    • By: Paolo Giordano, Alex Valente
    • Narrated by: David Thorpe, Paolo Giordano
    • Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • The COVID-19 pandemic is the most significant health emergency of our time. Writing from Italy in lockdown, physicist and novelist Paolo Giordano explains how disease spreads in our interconnected world....

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    • How sleeping better can transform your career
    • By: Vicki Culpin
    • Narrated by: Fiona Green
    • Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The Business of Sleep provides practical ways of mitigating against or reducing the impact of compromised sleep in organisational environments....

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    • The Inside Story of Our Outer Selves
    • By: Phillipa McGuinness
    • Narrated by: Phillipa McGuinness
    • Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-22
    • Language: English
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    • This is a book about skin. The strange wonderfulness of our bodily covering. What happens to it when something goes wrong. How the world responds to imperfection and difference. It's about how skin makes us who we are....

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    • Wie Du Deine Schmerzen endlich los wirst [How to Finally Get Rid of Your Pain]
    • By: Flavia Treptow
    • Narrated by: Franziska Dier
    • Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-24
    • Language: German
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    • Dieses Buch begleitet Dich Schritt für Schritt auf Deinem Weg zu einem schmerzfreien Rücken – mit einem ganzheitlichen Ansatz, der Dich dabei unterstützt, Rückenschmerzen an der Wurzel zu packen und dauerhaft loszuwerden.

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    • Notas sobre el cuerpo, la casa y el tiempo
    • By: Miguel Ángel Hernández
    • Narrated by: Miguel Ángel Hernández
    • Length: 1 hr and 59 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-21
    • Language: Spanish
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Asociada con la pereza y la ociosidad, la siesta contraviene uno de los principios fundamentales del mundo moderno: la pulsión productiva...

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