Health Care History

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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 75 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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    • 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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    • From the Black Death to the Present
    • By: Frank M. Snowden
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 23 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 15-09-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • A multidisciplinary and comparative investigation of the medical and social history of the major epidemics, this volume touches on themes such as the evolution of medical therapy, plague literature, poverty, the environment, and mass hysteria....

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • 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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    • 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
    • Release date: 03-01-2017
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race....

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    • Hate and Compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS
    • By: Samuel Kline Cohn Jr.
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 29 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 16-10-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Epidemics challenges a dominant hypothesis in the study of epidemics, that invariably across time and space, epidemics provoked hatred, blaming of the "other", and victimizing bearers of epidemic diseases....

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    • How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
    • By: Jim Downs
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Most stories of medical progress come with ready-made heroes. John Snow traced the origins of London's 1854 cholera outbreak to a water pump, leading to the birth of epidemiology....

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