Public Health Crisis

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    • The Hidden Science of Fighting Outbreaks
    • By: Caitlin Rivers PhD
    • Narrated by: Jaime Lamchick
    • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-24
    • Language: English
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    • Caitlin Rivers illuminates the role of epidemiology in all our lives, weaving together stories of triumph and tragedy, with a boots-on-the-ground perspective on how we can avert the next public health crisis.

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    • America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
    • By: Alisa Roth
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 128 ratings
    • Journalist Alisa Roth goes deep inside the criminal justice system to tell how and why it has become a warehouse where inmates are denied proper treatment, abused, and punished in ways that make them sicker....

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    • The Collapse of Global Public Health
    • By: Laurie Garrett
    • Narrated by: Randye Kaye
    • Length: 35 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 11-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • In this "meticulously researched" account (New York Times Book Review), a Pulitzer Prize-winning author examines the dangers of a failing public health system unequipped to handle large-scale global risks like a coronavirus pandemic....

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    • The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
    • By: David K. Randall
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 114 ratings
    • A spine-chilling saga of virulent racism, human folly, and the ultimate triumph of scientific progress....

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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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    • What Everyone Needs to Know
    • By: Yngvild Olsen, Joshua M. Sharfstein
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • The Opioid Epidemic: What Everyone Needs to Know is an accessible, nonpartisan overview of the causes, politics, and treatments tied to the most devastating health crisis of our time....

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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 728 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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    • Health Care is Stealing the American Dream. Here’s How We Take it Back
    • By: Dave Chase
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-24
    • Language: English
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    • The opioid crisis is not an anomaly. Instead, it's a self-inflicted wound, driven by a catastrophically dysfunctional health care system, leading ...

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    • A True Story
    • By: Richard Preston
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,360 ratings
    • The first major bioterror event in the United States - the anthrax attacks in October 2001 - was a clarion call for scientists who work with "hot" agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons....

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    • Sanidad pública, crisis y la importancia de lo político [Public Health, Crisis and the Importance of Politics]
    • By: Javier Padilla
    • Narrated by: Daniel Romero
    • Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-24
    • Language: Spanish
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    • La sanidad siempre está en crisis, la responsabilidad de enfermar no puede atribuirse solamente a la persona que enferma y para cambiar la sanidad tenemos que cambiar la sociedad entera.

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    • How Bad Behavior and Big Government Caused a Trillion-Dollar Crisis
    • By: Nicole Saphier
    • Narrated by: Emily Durante
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 107 ratings
    • In Make America Healthy Again, Nicole Saphier, a Memorial Sloan Kettering physician, nationally recognized patient advocate, and media personality, reveals how individual negligence and big government incompetence have destroyed America's health care system....

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    • An American Crisis
    • By: John Woodrow Cox
    • Narrated by: Graham Halstead
    • Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • Based on the acclaimed series - a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize - an intimate account of the devastating effects of gun violence on our nation’s children, and a call to action for a new way forward....

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    • An Investigative Report
    • By: COVID Crisis Group
    • Narrated by: Derek Shetterly
    • Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • This powerful report on what went wrong—and right—with America’s COVID response, from a team of 34 experts, shows how Americans faced the worst peacetime catastrophe of modern times....

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    • A True Story
    • By: Richard Preston
    • Narrated by: James Naughton
    • Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-02
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 265 ratings
    • The first major bioterror event in the United States - the anthrax attacks in October 2001 - was a clarion call for scientists who work with “hot” agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons....

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    • Inside the Opioid Addiction Crisis - and How to End It
    • By: Ryan Hampton
    • Narrated by: Ryan Hampton
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 72 ratings
    • Nearly every American knows someone who has been affected by the opioid crisis. Addiction is a trans-partisan issue that impacts individuals from every walk of life. Millions of Americans are tired of watching their loved ones die while politicians ignore this issue....

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    • Lessons from the Front Lines of the War Against Covid-19
    • By: Jerome M. Adams MD MPH, Nancy Peske - contributor
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The former Surgeon General of the United States—freed from the many constraints he worked under in public office—reveals critical lessons learned from both mistakes and successes overlooked during the pandemic....

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    • Crisis in the American Red Cross
    • By: Judith Reitman
    • Narrated by: Stephen Yankee
    • Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 06-19-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • In 1984 triplet girls born three months prematurely received life-saving blood transfusions. A year later, their parents learned that their donor had the AIDS virus....

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    • The Future of Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation
    • By: Hal Brands - editor, Francis J. Gavin - editor
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has killed hundreds of thousands of people and infected millions while also devastating the world economy. The consequences of the pandemic, however, go much further: they threaten the fabric of national and international politics around the world....

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    • Solving the Global Workforce Crisis in Healthcare
    • By: Mark Britnell
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Short and concise, this book gives a truly global perspective on the fundamental workforce issues facing health systems today....

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    • How We Solve Canada's Housing Crisis
    • By: Gregor Craigie
    • Narrated by: Gregor Craigie
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 03-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • An urgent and illuminating examination of the unrelenting housing crisis Canadians find ourselves facing, A Crumbling Foundation offers real-life solutions from around the world and hope for new housing innovation in the face of seemingly impossible obstacles....

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