Health Care History

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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: 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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: 01-09-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Take a visit to the frontline as scientists fight to solve medical mysteries....

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    • Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire
    • By: Kyle Harper
    • Narrated by: Andrew Garman
    • Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 27-10-2017
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman Empire....

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    • Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
    • By: Stacy Horn
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 15-05-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell's Island. There, over the next hundred years, the city would build a lunatic asylum, prison, hospital, workhouse, and almshouse....

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    • Past, Present, and Future
    • By: Michael B. A. Oldstone
    • Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
    • Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 13-11-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • The story of viruses and humanity is a story of fear and ignorance, of grief and heartbreak, and of great bravery and sacrifice. Michael Oldstone tells all these stories as he illuminates the history of the devastating diseases that have tormented humanity....

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    • A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness
    • By: Jack El-Hai
    • Narrated by: Peter Lerman
    • Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 16-03-2021
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The Lobotomist explores one of the darkest chapters of American medicine: the desperate attempt to treat the hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients in need of help during the middle decades of the 20th century....

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    • How the Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey Viruses Are Linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, the JFK Assassination, and Emerging Global Epidemics
    • By: Edward T. Haslam
    • Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 17-09-2012
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • The 1964 murder of a nationally known cancer researcher sets the stage for this gripping exposé of medical professionals enmeshed in covert government operations....

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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: 30-09-2010
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • 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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    • The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
    • By: Edith Sheffer
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-2018
    • Language: English
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    • In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, aiming to treat those children he deemed capable of participating fully in society. Depicted as a compassionate researcher, Asperger was in fact deeply influenced by Nazi psychiatry....

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    • How the Breakthrough of a Generation Fought Covid-19
    • By: Joe Miller, Ugur Sahin, Özlem Türeci
    • Narrated by: John Sackville
    • Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 14-09-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • In mid-January 2020, scientists Ugur Sahin and Özlem Türeci learned of how a new virus that had emerged in Wuhan, China, was spreading....

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    • Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II
    • By: Evelyn M. Monahan, Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 21 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 24-03-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • From the North African and Italian campaigns to the liberation of France and the conquest of Germany, Army nurses rose to the demands of war on the front lines with grit, humor, and great heroism. And If I Perish is also a powerful tribute to these women and their inspiring legacy....

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    • A History of Psychiatry's Bible
    • By: Allan V. Horowitz
    • Narrated by: Rich Miller
    • Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 31-12-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Over the past 70 years, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, has evolved from a virtually unknown and little-used pamphlet to an imposing and comprehensive compendium of mental disorder....

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    • A Cultural History of DMT
    • By: Graham St John, Dennis McKenna - foreword
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 31-12-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Since the mid-1950s, the psychoactive compound DMT has attracted the attention of experimentalists, prohibitionists, scientists, artists, alchemists, and hyperspace emissaries....

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    • The Untold Story of Psychiatry
    • By: Jeffrey A Lieberman, Ogi Ogas
    • Narrated by: Graham Corrigan
    • Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-2015
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • A world-renowned psychiatrist reveals the fascinating story of psychiatry's origins, demise, and redemption....

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    • Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
    • By: Lindsey Fitzharris
    • Narrated by: Sam Woolf
    • Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 17-10-2017
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • Historian Lindsey Fitzharris re-creates a critical turning point in the history of medicine, when Joseph Lister transformed surgery from a brutal, harrowing practice to a safe, vaunted profession....

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