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Empire of the Scalpel
- The History of Surgery
- By: Ira Rutkow M.D. M.D.
- Narrated by: Gibson Frazier
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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From an eminent surgeon and historian comes the “by turns fascinating and ghastly” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice) story of surgery’s development—from the Stone Age to the present day—blending meticulous medical research with vivid storytelling. There are not many...
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Empire of the Scalpel
- The History of Surgery
- Narrated by: Gibson Frazier
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 08-03-22
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Therapist
- By: Mary Pipher
- Narrated by: Eliza Foss
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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A gifted healer’s powerful guidance on how therapy can help us revitalize our emotional landscape in an increasingly stressful world “A wise and compassionate book.” ―The Washington Post Mary Pipher's groundbreaking investigation of America's “girl-poisoning culture,” Reviving...
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Don’t waste time or money on this
- By A. S. Thurley-Ratcliff on 01-08-22
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Letters to a Young Therapist
- Narrated by: Eliza Foss
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 01-07-20
- Language: English
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In Search of Madness
- A Psychiatrist's Travels Through the History of Mental Illness
- By: Brendan Kelly
- Narrated by: Ciaran O'Brien
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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In this fascinating new exploration of mental illness, Professor Brendan Kelly examines ‘madness’ in history and how we have responded to it over the centuries. We travel from the psychiatric institutions of modern India to scientific studies of the brain in Victorian England. We discover the beginnings of formal asylum care and witness the experimental therapies of the cavernous psychiatric hospitals of the 19th and early 20th centuries in Ireland, England, Belgium, Italy, Germany and the United States.
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Show me where the Neuroscientist touched you.
- By Paul on 25-09-22
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In Search of Madness
- A Psychiatrist's Travels Through the History of Mental Illness
- Narrated by: Ciaran O'Brien
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 01-06-22
- Language: English
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The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays
- By: Thomas Szasz
- Narrated by: Gary D. MacFadden
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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Defining "medicalization" as the perception of nonmedical conditions as medical problems and nondiseases as diseases, Thomas Szasz has devoted much of his career to exposing the dangers of "medicalizing" the conditions of some who simply refuse to conform to society's expectations. Szasz argues that modern psychiatry's tireless ambition to explain the human condition has led to the treatment of life's difficulties and oddities as clinical illnesses rather than as humanity revealed in its fullness.
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An overview of Szasz's ideas
- By Alan Michael Forrester on 26-12-16
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The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays
- Narrated by: Gary D. MacFadden
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 24-07-14
- Language: English
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Between a Shot and a Hard Place
- Tackling Difficult Vaccine Questions with Balance, Data, and Clarity
- By: Joel Warsh
- Narrated by: Adam Weaver, Joel Warsh, Eli Warsh
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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With honesty, humility, and a commitment to the health and well-being of all children, Between a Shot and a Hard Place challenges the polarizing rhetoric and offers a path forward—one that respects individual choices while fostering informed, thoughtful dialogue.
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Between a Shot and a Hard Place
- Tackling Difficult Vaccine Questions with Balance, Data, and Clarity
- Narrated by: Adam Weaver, Joel Warsh, Eli Warsh
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 02-06-25
- Language: English
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The Urge
- Our History of Addiction
- By: Carl Erik Fisher
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and The Boston Globe An authoritative, illuminating, and deeply humane history of addiction—a phenomenon that remains baffling and deeply misunderstood despite having touched countless lives—by an addiction psychiatrist striving to understand...
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The Urge
- Our History of Addiction
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 25-01-22
- Language: English
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Shapeshifters
- On Medicine & Human Change
- By: Dr Gavin Francis
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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To be alive is to be in perpetual change: growing, healing, learning, aging. In Shapeshifters, award-winning writer and doctor Gavin Francis considers the transformations in mind and body that continue across the arc of human life. Some of these changes we have little choice about. We can't avoid puberty, the menopause, or our hair turning grey. Others may be welcome milestones along our path - a much-wanted pregnancy, a cancer cured, or a long-awaited transition to another gender.
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outstanding... unique in flow and prespective
- By Ghazi on 09-08-18
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Shapeshifters
- On Medicine & Human Change
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 03-05-18
- Language: English
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Plagues and Peoples
- By: William H. McNeill
- Narrated by: Douglas James
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history. With the identification of AIDS in the early 1980s, another chapter was added to this chronicle of events, which William McNeill explores in his introduction to this edition. McNeill’s highly acclaimed work is a brilliant and challenging account of the effects of disease on human history. His sophisticated analysis and detailed grasp of the subject make this book fascinating to listen to.
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Plagues and Peoples
- Narrated by: Douglas James
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 06-05-24
- Language: English
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The Plague Cycle
- The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease
- By: Charles Kenny
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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A vivid, sweeping, and “fact-filled” (Booklist, starred review) history of mankind’s battles with infectious disease that “contextualizes the COVID-19 pandemic” (Publishers Weekly)—for readers of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Yuval Harari’s Sapiens and John Barry’s The Great...
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Exceptional!!! A book for everyone concerned.
- By Kevin on 27-01-21
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The Plague Cycle
- The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 19-01-21
- Language: English
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Bloody Lies
- A CSI Scandal in the Heartland (Black Squirrel Booksy)
- By: John Ferak
- Narrated by: Rich Grimshaw
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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The remote farming community of Murdock, Nebraska, seemed to be the least likely setting for one of the heartland's most ruthless and bloody double murders in decades. In fact, the little town had gone more than a century without a single homicide. But on the night of Easter 2006, Wayne and Sharmon Stock were brutally murdered in their home. The murders garnered sensational front page headlines and drew immediate statewide attention. Practically everybody around Murdock was filled with fear, panic, and outrage. Who killed Wayne and Sharmon Stock? What was the motive?
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Scary to read this stuff is still happening
- By jeffrey on 17-09-17
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Bloody Lies
- A CSI Scandal in the Heartland (Black Squirrel Booksy)
- Narrated by: Rich Grimshaw
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 22-07-15
- Language: English
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Träum weiter
- Was wir von unseren Träumen lernen
- By: der apparat multimedia gmbh
- Narrated by: Teresa Sickert
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
- Original Recording
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Wir träumen. Jede Nacht. Fast ein Viertel unseres Lebens verbringen wir im Schlaf, versunken in Bilder, Gefühle und Geschichten aus unserem Innersten. Bei Träum weiter trifft Host Teresa Sickert führende Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler aus der Hirn- und Schlafforschung und aus der Psychologie, um den Fragen zum Träumen auf den Grund zu gehen. Was passiert wirklich in unserem Kopf, wenn wir träumen? Welche Bedeutung haben Träume? Und wie können wir dieses verborgene Potenzial für unseren Alltag nutzen? Träume wirken.
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Träum weiter
- Was wir von unseren Träumen lernen
- Narrated by: Teresa Sickert
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 19-03-26
- Language: German
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The History of Medicine
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: William Bynum
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Taking a thematic rather than strictly chronological approach, W. F. Bynum, explores the key turning points in the history of Western medicine - such as the first surgical procedures, the advent of hospitals, the introduction of anesthesia, X-Rays, vaccinations, and many other innovations, as well as the rise of experimental medicine. The book also explores Western medicine's encounters with Chinese and Indian medicine, as well as nontraditional treatments such as homeopathy, chiropractic, and other alternative medicines.
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The History of Medicine
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 23-02-21
- Language: English
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Breath from Salt
- A Deadly Genetic Disease, a New Era in Science, and the Patients and Families Who Changed Medicine Forever
- By: Bijal P. Trivedi
- Narrated by: Deepti Gupta
- Length: 20 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Cystic fibrosis was once a mysterious disease that killed infants and children. Now it could be the key to healing millions with genetic diseases of every type - from Alzheimer's and Parkinson's to diabetes and sickle cell anemia. Told from the perspectives of the patients, families, physicians, scientists, and philanthropists fighting on the front lines, Breath from Salt is a remarkable story of unlikely scientific and medical firsts, of setbacks and successes, and of people who refused to give up hope....
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Recommended by Bill Gates
- By Laly37 on 25-04-21
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Breath from Salt
- A Deadly Genetic Disease, a New Era in Science, and the Patients and Families Who Changed Medicine Forever
- Narrated by: Deepti Gupta
- Length: 20 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 01-12-20
- Language: English
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Taking Care
- The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World
- By: Sarah DiGregorio
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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“DiGregorio’s storytelling is pitch-perfect; narrative and nursing, she understands, come from the same place and both are concerned with a deep understanding of character and plot….This is a brilliant book, and DiGregorio is a beautiful writer. Taking Care deserves to be on the reading...
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Excellent insights into the history and discourse surrounding nursing , leadership and politics.
- By Sue on 16-06-23
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Taking Care
- The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 02-05-23
- Language: English
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The Drug Hunters
- The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines
- By: Donald R. Kirsch PhD, Ogi Ogas PhD
- Narrated by: James Foster
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity - by chewing, brewing, and snorting - some Neolithic souls discovered opium, alcohol, snakeroot, juniper, frankincense, and other helpful substances. Ötzi the Iceman, the 5,000-year-old hunter frozen in the Italian Alps, was found to have whipworms in his intestines and Bronze Age medicine, a worm-killing birch fungus, knotted to his leggings.
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The Drug Hunters
- The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines
- Narrated by: James Foster
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 03-01-17
- Language: English
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Dreams from My Mother
- By: Dame Elizabeth Anionwu
- Narrated by: Dame Elizabeth Anionwu
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
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Dreams from My Mother is an inspiring story about childhood, race, identity, family, friendship, hope and what makes us who we are. Ultimately, it is an incredibly moving story of a mother and a daughter separated by society, but united in the dreams they shared for her future.
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A beautiful read & what an amazing lady.
- By Anonymous on 24-01-24
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Dreams from My Mother
- Narrated by: Dame Elizabeth Anionwu
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 16-09-21
- Language: English
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Medical Bondage
- Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
- By: Deirdre Cooper Owens
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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In Medical Bondage, Cooper Owens examines a wide range of scientific literature and less formal communications in which gynecologists created and disseminated medical fictions about their patients, such as their belief that black enslaved women could withstand pain better than white "ladies". Even as they were advancing medicine, these doctors were legitimizing, for decades to come, groundless theories related to whiteness and blackness, men and women, and the inferiority of other races or nationalities.
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needed
- By Roxana on 06-05-23
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Medical Bondage
- Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 07-05-19
- Language: English
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The Pandemic Century
- 100 Years of Panic, Hysteria and Hubris
- By: Mark Honigsbaum
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
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Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, Scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet, despite a century of medical progress, viral and bacterial disasters continue to take us by surprise, inciting panic and dominating news cycles. From the Spanish flu and the 1924 outbreak of pneumonic plague in Los Angeles, to the 1930 'parrot fever' pandemic and the more recent SARS, Ebola and Zika, the last 100 years have been marked by a succession of unanticipated pandemic alarms.
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Hmmmmm
- By Tim on 09-09-20
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The Pandemic Century
- 100 Years of Panic, Hysteria and Hubris
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 23-04-20
- Language: English
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Can Medicine Be Cured?
- By: Seamus O'Mahony
- Narrated by: Seamus O’Mahony
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
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Seamus O'Mahony writes about the illusion of progress, the notion that more and more diseases can be "conquered" ad infinitum. He punctures the idiocy of consumerism, the idea that healthcare can be endlessly adapted to the wishes of individuals. He excoriates the claims of Big Science, the spending of vast sums on research follies like the Human Genome Project. And he highlights one of the most dangerous errors of industrialized medicine: an over-reliance on metrics, and a neglect of things that can't easily be measured, like compassion.
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Can Medicine Be Cured?
- Narrated by: Seamus O’Mahony
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 14-09-23
- Language: English
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The Making Of Modern Medicine
- By: Andrew Cunningham
- Narrated by: Andrew Cunningham
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
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This major new Radio 4 series charts the development of Western medicine and healing from the ancient Greeks to the pioneering organ transplant operations of the 20th Century and beyond. ‘The Making of Modern Medicine’ covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of...
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Good but not great
- By Tom on 01-11-07
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The Making Of Modern Medicine
- Narrated by: Andrew Cunningham
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 11-04-07
- Language: English
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