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Der Horror der frühen Chirurgie
- By: Lindsey Fitzharris, Volker Oldenburg - Übersetzer
- Narrated by: Friedhelm Ptok
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
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Lindsey Fitzharris' Buch "Der Horror der frühen Medizin" war ein internationaler Erfolg, wurde in 15 Sprachen übersetzt und stand 19 Wochen lang auf der SPIEGEL-Bestsellerliste. Mit ihrem neuen Hörbuch entführt uns die Autorin zu den grausigen Anfänge der Schönheitschirurgie: Als Harold Gillies die Verheerungen des Ersten Weltkriegs mit eigenen Augen sieht, ist er schockiert. Zu viele junge Männer werden nach nur einem falschen Augenblick ihrem Schicksal überlassen: für immer entstellt, für immer Monster in den Augen der Gesellschaft.
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Der Horror der frühen Chirurgie
- Narrated by: Friedhelm Ptok
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 10-10-22
- Language: German
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Duel Without End
- Mankind’s Battle with Microbes
- By: Stig S. Frøland, John Irons - translator
- Narrated by: Daniel Thomas May
- Length: 20 hrs and 41 mins
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In this panoramic account, we learn how great epidemics have not only led to enormous suffering and mass death but also changed the course of history. Humanity has struck back at the microbes: antibiotics and new vaccines have saved millions of lives. But the battle is far from won. We face increasing threats from new and unavoidable pandemics, antibiotic resistance, and even potential extraterrestrial microbes. Duel Without End is a fascinating journey through the long history of infection, from the dawn of life to humanity's future exploration of deep space.
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Duel Without End
- Mankind’s Battle with Microbes
- Narrated by: Daniel Thomas May
- Length: 20 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 17-05-22
- Language: English
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Cold War Resistance
- The International Struggle over Antibiotics
- By: Marc Landas
- Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
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In June 1941, a pair of British scientists boarded a plane for America with World War II raging all around them. They carried a precious commodity - penicillin - and the knowledge that it would change history. Author Marc Landas uncovers the dark history behind the discovery, production, and distribution of penicillin and other antibiotics.
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Cold War Resistance
- The International Struggle over Antibiotics
- Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 19-01-21
- Language: English
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VD Girls of World War II
- The Forgotten Fight
- By: Mary Lee Smullen Croatt
- Narrated by: Gina Dobbs
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
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Venereal diseases exploded into an epidemic in World War II. This endangered the health and safety of our nation and our troops. In many recountings of this war, the fight against VD is not included, but it was a battle worth highlighting. Historically, infected women were blamed and jailed with or without treatment. During this time, hospital camps were set up on a national scale for women to be sequestered for treatment. Dr. George Smullen, my father, worked in two Florida Rapid Treatment Camps, and I am sharing some of my family's experiences when we lived there.
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VD Girls of World War II
- The Forgotten Fight
- Narrated by: Gina Dobbs
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Release date: 19-02-21
- Language: English
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Votre cerveau n'a pas fini de vous étonner
- By: Boris Cyrulnik, Pierre Bustany, Jean-Michel Oughourlian, and others
- Narrated by: Bernard Gabay, Antoine David-Calvet
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
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On savait que le cerveau était l'entité la plus complexe de l'univers connu. Mais les nouvelles découvertes démontrent que ses possibilités sont bien plus étonnantes qu'on ne le croyait. Non seulement il est totalement élastique - même âgé, handicapé, voire amputé, il peut se reconstruire, apprendre, inventer -, mais aussi totalement social - un cerveau n'existe qu'en résonance avec d'autres : nous sommes neuronalement constitués pour entrer en empathie.
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Votre cerveau n'a pas fini de vous étonner
- Narrated by: Bernard Gabay, Antoine David-Calvet
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 24-02-21
- Language: French
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Pure America
- Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia
- By: Elizabeth Catte
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
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Between 1927 and 1979, more than 8,000 people were involuntarily sterilized in five hospitals across the state of Virginia. From this plain and terrible fact springs Elizabeth Catte's Pure America, a sweeping, unsparing history of eugenics in Virginia, and by extension the United States.
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Pure America
- Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 20-04-21
- Language: English
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A Place in History
- The Biography of John C. Kendrew
- By: Paul M. Wassarman
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
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John C. Kendrew (1917-1997) was a pioneer in structural biology and a catalyst for the emergence of molecular biology in the second half of the 20th century. He was the first person to determine the three-dimensional structure of a protein at atomic resolution and, for this, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1962. Kendrew ultimately became an international organizer, administrator, and advocate for science, and his expansive legacy lives on today.
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A Place in History
- The Biography of John C. Kendrew
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 26-05-20
- Language: English
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The Cancer Problem
- Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain
- By: Agnes Arnold-Forster
- Narrated by: Cat Gould
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
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The Cancer Problem offers the first medical, cultural, and social history of cancer in 19th-century Britain. It argues that it was in the 19th century that cancer acquired the unique emotional, symbolic, and politicized status it maintains today. Through an interrogation of the construction, deployment, and emotional consequences of the disease's incurability, this book reframes our conceptualization of the relationship between medicine and modern life and reshapes our understanding of chronic and incurable maladies, both past and present.
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The Cancer Problem
- Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain
- Narrated by: Cat Gould
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 23-03-21
- Language: English
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Cholera - unsichtbare Guillotine ambulante
- By: Heinrich Heine
- Narrated by: Org Dubonton
- Length: 34 mins
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Heinrich Heine durchlebt 1832 in Paris die Zeit der Cholera und berichtet darüber für eine deutsche Zeitung. Zwischen Anteilnahme und Sarkasmus wechselnd beschreibt er des Volkes und der Behörden Umgang mit der Epidemie, dem der des 20sten Jahres im 21. Jahrhundert erschreckend ähnlich sieht.
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Cholera - unsichtbare Guillotine ambulante
- Narrated by: Org Dubonton
- Length: 34 mins
- Release date: 20-07-20
- Language: German
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On Surgery
- By: Francis Adams - translator, Hippocrates
- Narrated by: Ellie Darvill
- Length: 27 mins
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Hippocrates earned the title “Father of Medicine” for his extensive work in ancient Greece. He effectively established medicine as a profession. Modern doctors still swear to uphold the ethical standards he laid out in the Hippocratic Oath. His work On Surgery provides a fascinating look into medical history and the historical practices of this great physician.
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On Surgery
- Narrated by: Ellie Darvill
- Length: 27 mins
- Release date: 09-10-18
- Language: English
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The Essence of Invention
- Medicine and the Joy of Creativity
- By: Dr. Kieran Murphy
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
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The Essence of Invention tells the story of medical inventors who have laid the foundation for modern patient care, from the development of anesthesia and safe surgery to the advent of vaccines against smallpox, polio, and COVID-19, and how, through creativity and persistence, they have changed the world.
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The Essence of Invention
- Medicine and the Joy of Creativity
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 03-02-26
- Language: English
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Nightcrawlers
- Exposure collection
- By: Rosecrans Baldwin
- Narrated by: Rosecrans Baldwin
- Length: 53 mins
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It’s a Darien, Connecticut, tradition: an emergency medical service managed by adolescents. One kid is a varsity soccer captain. There’s a future doctor, a band dork, a theater geek. Theirs is a view of town without the niceties. A drunken spouse turned violent. Lonely old people stuck in the bath. A midlife suicide. How do these kids process the sometimes shocking and violent life-and-death secrets of their community? The answer is a story of high stress and uncommon high school lives, told by a writer who spent his own youth on the night shift. Welcome to Post 53.
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Nightcrawlers
- Exposure collection
- Narrated by: Rosecrans Baldwin
- Series: Exposure Collection
- Length: 53 mins
- Release date: 30-05-19
- Language: English
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Cazadores de microbios [Microbe Hunters]
- By: Paul De Kruif
- Narrated by: Gabriela Ramirez
- Length: 40 mins
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Los microorganismos son bichos que conviven con la humanidad y que, por una parte, pueden matar en forma misteriosa y en silencio a millones de personas y por otra, son benéficos para la naturaleza y el ser humano. 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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Cazadores de microbios [Microbe Hunters]
- Narrated by: Gabriela Ramirez
- Length: 40 mins
- Release date: 21-07-20
- Language: Spanish
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What Cannot Be Undone
- True Stories of a Life in Medicine
- By: Walter M. Robinson
- Narrated by: Daniel Thomas May
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
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In his award-winning debut essay collection, What Cannot Be Undone, Walter M. Robinson shares surprising stories of illness and medicine that do not sacrifice hard truth for easy dramatics. These true stories are filled with details of difficult days and nights in the world of high-tech medical care, and they show the ongoing struggle in making critical decisions with no good answer. This collection presents the raw moments where his expertise in medical ethics and pediatrics are put to the test.
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What Cannot Be Undone
- True Stories of a Life in Medicine
- Narrated by: Daniel Thomas May
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 13-09-22
- Language: English
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Women in Medicine
- Stories from the Girls in White
- By: Anne Walling
- Narrated by: Christine Williams
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
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In telling the history of women in medicine, the pioneers are rightly remembered and celebrated in books, articles, memorials, awards, names of buildings, and organizations. In contrast, the generation who began the transition from minority status to the current numerical equity are seldom...
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Women in Medicine
- Stories from the Girls in White
- Narrated by: Christine Williams
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 31-03-26
- Language: English
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La enfermedad y sus metáforas: El sida y sus metáforas [Illness as Metaphor: AIDS and Its Metaphors]
- By: Susan Sontag, Mario Muchnik Clemans
- Narrated by: Valentina Latyna
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
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Este volumen reúne los ensayos, La enfermedad y sus metáforas y El sida y sus metáforas, que siguen ejerciendo una influencia enorme en la reflexión médica y en las vidas de miles de pacientes y cuidadores.
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La enfermedad y sus metáforas: El sida y sus metáforas [Illness as Metaphor: AIDS and Its Metaphors]
- Narrated by: Valentina Latyna
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 20-04-23
- Language: Spanish
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Battlefield Surgeon: Life and Death on the Front Lines of World War II
- American Warrior Series
- By: Paul A. Kennedy
- Narrated by: Ellery Truesdell
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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In November 1942, Paul Andrew Kennedy (1912-1993) boarded the St. Elena in New York Harbor and sailed for Casablanca as part of Operation Torch, the massive Allied invasion of North Africa. As a member of the US Army's 2nd Auxiliary Surgical Group, he spent the next 34 months working in North Africa, Italy, France, and Germany, in close proximity to the front lines and often under air or artillery bombardment. He was uncomfortable, struck by the sorrows of war, and homesick for his wife.
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Battlefield Surgeon: Life and Death on the Front Lines of World War II
- American Warrior Series
- Narrated by: Ellery Truesdell
- Series: American Warriors Series
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 23-06-16
- Language: English
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Dread
- How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu
- By: Phillip Alcabes
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
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The average individual is far more likely to die in a car accident than from a communicable disease...yet we are still much more fearful of the epidemic. Even at our most level-headed, the thought of an epidemic can inspire terror. As Philip Alcabes persuasively argues in Dread, our anxieties about epidemics are created not so much by the germ or microbe in question - or the actual risks of contagion - but by the unknown, the undesirable, and the misunderstood.
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Dread
- How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 28-07-09
- Language: English
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Herding Immunity
- The Startling History of Life Before and After Vaccines
- By: Stacy Mintzer Herlihy
- Narrated by: Robin Siegerman
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
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In Herding Immunity, Stacy Mintzer Herlihy explores the compelling history of vaccines and the equally long history of vaccination opposition. By connecting the contemporary anti-vax movement with its historical roots, Herlihy integrates modern conversations and reveals the profound impact vaccines have had on our society, highlighting the urgent need for societal change to ensure equitable vaccination for all.
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Herding Immunity
- The Startling History of Life Before and After Vaccines
- Narrated by: Robin Siegerman
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 26-11-24
- Language: English
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Germs, Genes, & Civilization: How Epidemics Shaped Who We Are Today
- By: David P. Clark
- Narrated by: Summer McStravick
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
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Again and again, microbes have shaped our health, our genetics, our history, our culture, our politics, even our religion and ethics. This book reveals much that scientists and cultural historians have learned about the pervasive interconnections between infectious microbes and humans. It also considers what our ongoing fundamental relationship with infectious microbes might mean for the future of the human species.
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Germs, Genes, & Civilization: How Epidemics Shaped Who We Are Today
- Narrated by: Summer McStravick
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 09-12-11
- Language: English
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