Health History

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    • By: Susan Cain
    • Narrated by: Susan Cain
    • Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-2024
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Join Susan Cain, an international best-selling author on the power of introverts who will help you tune out all of your everyday stresses and conflicts and tune into living a Quiet Life....

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    • The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
    • By: Maryanne Wolf
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 26-08-2008
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • This ambitious and provocative new book offers an impassioned look at reading....

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    • By: Leon Neyfakh, Prologue Projects
    • Narrated by: Leon Neyfakh, Arielle Pardes
    • Series: Backfired
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 20-06-2024
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Backfired is the latest podcast from Prologue Projects, the award-winning team behind Slow Burn, Fiasco, and Think Twice: Michael Jackson. Backfired is a show about the business of unintended consequences—what happens when solving one problem inadvertently leads to a host of new ones?

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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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    • By: Stephen Cope
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 26-01-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Millions of Americans know yoga as a superb form of exercise and as a potent source of calm in the midst of our stress-filled lives. Far fewer are aware of the full promise of yoga as "the way of the fully alive human being" - a 4,000-year-old practical path of liberation....

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    • The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond
    • By: John Powell
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 20-12-2010
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • An enthralling investigation into the mysteries of music....

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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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    • The History and Principles of China’s Most Explosive Martial Art
    • By: Danny Xuan, John Little
    • Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Wing Chun is the most popular form of Chinese kung fu in the world today, with more than four million practitioners. This guide will fascinate and educate anyone interested in the martial arts, from beginner to master....

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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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    • Growing Up in Siberia
    • By: Esther Hautzig
    • Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
    • Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 28-10-2008
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Poland, 1940. The Russian army invades the beautiful city streets of Vilna. Soldiers storm 10-year-old Esther Rudomin's house and arrest her entire family....

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • The Sub-Two-Hour Marathon Is Within Reach - Here’s How It Will Go Down, and What It Can Teach All Runners About Training and Racing
    • By: Philip Maffetone, Bill Katovsky
    • Narrated by: LJ Ganser
    • Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 25-11-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • The world's fastest times for the marathon have been dropping since the distance of 26.2 miles was made official nearly one hundred years ago....

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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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    • A Global History of the First Psychedelic
    • By: Mike Jay
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 20-08-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • A definitive history of mescaline that explores its mind-altering effects across cultures, from ancient America to Western modernity....

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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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