Health Care History

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    • The Story of Inflammation, Diet, and Disease
    • By: Shilpa Ravella
    • Narrated by: Suzie Althens
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 10-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 46 ratings
    • History & Commentary
    • Gastroenterologist Shilpa Ravella takes us on a lyrical quest across time, around the world, and into the body to reveal hidden inflammation at the root of modern disease―and how we can control it....

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    • A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus
    • By: Bill Wasik, Monica Murphy
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 07-19-12
    • Language: English
    • 2,427 ratings
    • Animals · Biological Sciences · History
    • A fresh, fascinating, and often wildly entertaining look at one of mankind’s oldest and most fearsome foes....

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    • The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
    • By: Kate Moore
    • Narrated by: Angela Brazil
    • Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 5,793 ratings
    • Americas · Biographies & Memoirs
    • As a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, painting watches, clocks, and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium....

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    • How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened by Killer Pandemics, Exotic Viruses, and Drug-Resistant Parasites
    • By: Alexandra Levitt
    • Narrated by: Julie McKay
    • Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 396 ratings
    • Crime · Biological Sciences · History
    • Take a visit to the frontline as scientists fight to solve medical mysteries....

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    • A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
    • By: Candice Millard
    • Narrated by: Paul Michael
    • Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-11
    • Language: English
    • 7,821 ratings
    • Americas · Biographies & Memoirs
    • James A. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, and a renowned and admired reformist congressman. Nominated for president against his will, he engaged in a fierce battle with the...

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    • The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    • By: Mary Roach
    • Narrated by: Shelly Frasier
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 02-26-04
    • Language: English
    • 8,435 ratings
    • Anatomy & Physiology · Biological Sciences
    • An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem....

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    • Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
    • By: Randy Shilts
    • Narrated by: Victor Bevine
    • Length: 31 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-09
    • Language: English
    • 1,072 ratings
    • Health · Americas · History & Commentary
    • 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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    • By: Ezekiel J. Emanuel
    • Narrated by: Rick Zieff
    • Length: 16 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 40 ratings
    • Health Care · Comparative · Political Science
    • The preeminent doctor and bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel is repeatedly asked one question: Which country has the best healthcare? He set off to find an answer. The US spends more than any other nation, nearly $4 trillion, on healthcare. Yet, for all that expense, the US is not ranked #1 -- not even...

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    • Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich (The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series)
    • By: Thom Hartmann
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Series: The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series
    • Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 81 ratings
    • Americas · Sociology · United States
    • Popular progressive radio host and New York Times best-selling author Thom Hartmann reveals how and why attempts to establish affordable universal healthcare in the United States have been thwarted and what we can do to finally make it a reality....

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    • By: Thomas S. Kuhn
    • Narrated by: Dennis Holland
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-16
    • Language: English
    • 1,183 ratings
    • History · Philosophy · Physics
    • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is essential listening for understanding the history, philosophy, and evolution of science....

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    • What It Is and What It Isn't
    • By: Florence Nightingale
    • Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
    • Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-10
    • Language: English
    • 52 ratings
    • Classics · History & Commentary · World
    • These outspoken writings by the founder of modern nursing record fundamentals in the needs of the sick that must be provided in all nursing....

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    • By: Paul De Kruif
    • Narrated by: Gabriela Ramirez
    • Length: 40 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-20
    • Language: Spanish
    • 26 ratings
    • History & Commentary
    • Esta obra habla de varios investigadores o cazadores de microbios nocivos, causantes estos de terribles enfermedades como la rabia, la tuberculosis, la difteria, la sífilis y el paludismo, entre otras....

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    • From Hemlock to Botox and the Killer Bean Calabar
    • By: Peter Macinnis
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 02-24-13
    • Language: English
    • 92 ratings
    • History & Commentary
    • A wide-ranging and provocative look - teeming with little-known facts and engaging stories - at a subject of the direst interest....

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    • Firsthand Accounts of Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program
    • By: Hal Gold, Yuma Totani - foreword
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 08-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 322 ratings
    • Asia · China · Genocide & War Crimes
    • Some of the cruelest deeds of Japan's war in Asia did not occur on the battlefield, but in quiet, antiseptic medical wards in obscure parts of China. Far from front lines and prying eyes, Japanese doctors and their assistants subjected human guinea pigs to gruesome medical experiments....

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    • A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
    • By: Anne Fadiman
    • Narrated by: Pamela Xiong
    • Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-15
    • Language: English
    • 2,147 ratings
    • Anthropology · Children's Health · Civilization
    • When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion....

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    • Jonathan Letterman, the Civil War Doctor Who Pioneered Battlefield Care
    • By: Scott McGaugh
    • Narrated by: Kyle Munley
    • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 52 ratings
    • American Civil War · Biographies & Memoirs
    • The first full-length biography of the Civil War surgeon who, over the course of the war’s bloodiest battles - from Antietam to Gettysburg - redefined military medicine....

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    • By: Steven Johnson
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-06
    • Language: English
    • 1,406 ratings
    • Great Britain · Biological Sciences · England
    • This is a thrilling historical account of the worst cholera outbreak in Victorian London and a brilliant exploration of how Dr. John Snow's solution revolutionized the way we think about disease....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 1,109 ratings
    • History & Commentary · Psychology
    • 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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