History Medicine Science

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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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    • 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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    • The Life and Teachings of a Native American Shaman
    • By: Bear Heart, Molly Larkin - contributor
    • Narrated by: Larry Winters
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 23-04-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • With eloquent simplicity, one of the world's last Native American medicine men demonstrates how traditional tribal wisdom can help us maintain spiritual and physical health in today's world....

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • A Seeker's Guide to Extraordinary Living
    • By: Stephen Cope
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 29-06-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • While many Westerners still think of yoga as an invigorating series of postures and breathing exercises, these physical practices are only part of a vast and ancient spiritual science....

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    • A Gross and Gruesome History of the Human Body
    • By: Adam Kay
    • Narrated by: Adam Kay, Jan Ravens, Dan Tetsell
    • Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 30-09-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • The olden days were pretty fun if you liked wearing chainmail or chopping people's heads off, but there was one tiny little problem back then...doctors didn't have the slightest clue about how our bodies worked....

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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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    • 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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    • 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 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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    • 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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    • By: Andrew Doig
    • Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
    • Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Causes of death have changed irrevocably across time. In the course of a few centuries we have gone from a world where disease or violence were likely to strike anyone at any age and where famine could be just one bad harvest away....

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    • How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
    • By: Thomas Hager
    • Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
    • Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Beginning with opium, the “joy plant,” which has been used for 10,000 years, Thomas Hager tells a captivating story of medicine. His subjects include the largely forgotten female pioneer who introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain, the infamous knockout drops, and much more....

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    • How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We LIve and Work
    • By: Steven Kotler, Jamie Wheal
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 21-02-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 463 ratings
    • The authors of the best-selling Bold and The Rise of Superman explore altered states of consciousness and how they can ignite passion, fuel creativity, and accelerate problem solving....

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