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    • Stiff

    • The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    • By: Mary Roach
    • Narrated by: Shelly Frasier
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 26-02-2004
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 142 ratings
    • An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem....

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    • Japan's Infamous Unit 731

    • 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: 18-08-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings

    • 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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    • When the Air Hits Your Brain

    • Tales from Neurosurgery
    • By: Frank T Vertosick Jr. MD
    • Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 164 ratings
    • With poignant insight and humor, Frank Vertosick, Jr., MD, describes some of the greatest challenges of his career, including a six-week-old infant with a tumor in her brain and more....

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    • Grief Works

    • Stories of Life, Death and Surviving
    • By: Julia Samuel
    • Narrated by: Julia Samuel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-2017
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Grief Works is a compassionate guide that will inform and engage anyone who is grieving and provide clear advice for those seeking to comfort the bereaved....

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    • Deep Medicine

    • How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
    • By: Eric Topol
    • Narrated by: Graham Winton
    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings

    • One of America's top doctors reveals how AI will empower physicians and revolutionize patient care....

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    • The Great Mortality

    • An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
    • By: John Kelly
    • Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
    • Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 20-02-2024
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • The Great Plague is one of the most compelling events in human history—even more so now, when the notion of plague has never loomed larger as a contemporary public concern....

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    • The Moth in the Iron Lung

    • A Biography of Polio
    • By: Forrest Maready
    • Narrated by: Forrest Maready
    • Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 19-06-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings

    • A fascinating account of the world’s most famous disease - polio - told as you have never heard it before. Epidemics of paralysis began to rage in the early 1900s, seemingly out of nowhere....

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    • Cook County ICU

    • 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases
    • By: Cory Franklin MD
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 22-03-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • Author Cory Franklin, MD, who headed the hospital's intensive care unit from the 1970s through the 1990s, shares his most unique and bizarre experiences....

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    • And the Band Played On

    • Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
    • By: Randy Shilts
    • Narrated by: Victor Bevine
    • Length: 31 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-2009
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Upon its first publication 20 years ago, And The Band Played On was quickly recognized as a masterpiece of investigatve reporting....

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    • Vital Organs

    • By: Suzie Edge
    • Narrated by: Suzie Edge
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 28-09-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings

    • A journey through history's most famous limbs, organs, and appendages, from TikTok medical historian Dr Suzie Edge....

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    • The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science

    • A Scientist's Warning
    • By: Peter J. Hotez MD PhD
    • Narrated by: Graham Winton
    • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • In this eyewitness story of how the anti-vaccine movement grew into a dangerous and prominent anti-science element in American politics, Dr. Peter J. Hotez describes the devastating impacts it has had on Americans’ health and lives....

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    • Why We Hurt

    • The Natural History of Pain
    • By: Frank T. Vertosick Jr. MD
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 13-06-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • A top neurosurgeon and acclaimed author explains the paradox of pain, with fascinating anecdotes on childbirth, migraines, cancer, and more....

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    • The History of Medicine

    • By: Mark Jackson
    • Narrated by: Tom Alexander
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Acclaimed historian Mark Jackson takes a fresh global view of mankind’s great battle to stave off death and disease, exploring both Western and Eastern traditions....

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    • Ravenous

    • Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection
    • By: Sam Apple
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 25-05-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings

    • The extraordinary story of the Nazi-era scientific genius who discovered how cancer cells eat - and what it means for how we should....

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    • Blood and Guts

    • A History of Surgery
    • By: Richard Hollingham
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 28-05-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making limb transplants, face transplants, and a host of other previously undreamed-of operations possible. But getting here has not been a simple story of medical progress....

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    • Plagues upon the Earth

    • Disease and the Course of Human History
    • By: Kyle Harper
    • Narrated by: Tim Fannon
    • Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 15-12-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • Plagues upon the Earth tells the story of how pathogenic microbes have been an intimate part of human history from the beginning - and how our deadliest germs and biggest pandemics are the product of our success as a species....

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