Medical America History

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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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    • Jonathan Letterman, the Civil War Doctor Who Pioneered Battlefield Care
    • By: Scott McGaugh
    • Narrated by: Kyle Munley
    • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-2013
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The first full-length biography of the Civil War surgeon who, over the course of the war’s bloodiest battles - from Antietam to Gettysburg - redefined military medicine....

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    • Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
    • By: Deirdre Cooper Owens
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Medical Bondage moves between southern plantations and northern urban centers to reveal how 19th-century American ideas about race, health, and status influenced doctor-patient relationships in sites of healing like slave cabins, medical colleges, and hospitals....

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    • An Insiders' Account of the Shocking Medical Experiment Conducted by Government Doctors Against African American Men
    • By: Fred D. Gray
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 26-01-2021
    • Language: English
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    • In 1932, the US Public Health Service recruited 623 African American men from Macon County, Alabama, for a study of "the effects of untreated syphilis in the Negro male". For the next 40 years, these men were denied medical care for this potentially fatal disease....

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    • Life, Death, and Politics at Chicago’s Public Hospital
    • By: David A. Ansell MD
    • Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
    • Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 19-10-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The amazing tale of County is the story of one of America's oldest and most unusual urban hospitals....

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    • America’s Untested, Unregulated Medical Device Industry and One Man’s Battle to Survive It
    • By: Jeanne Lenzer
    • Narrated by: Jeanne Lenzer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-2017
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The majority of high-risk implanted medical devices have never undergone a single clinical trial. The FDA lets device manufacturers decide whether to report serious complications or deaths....

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    • The Remarkable Life of Medical Pioneer and Legendary Rock Climber Hans Kraus
    • By: E.B. Schwartz
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 22-03-2013
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • JFK's Secret Doctor tells a thrilling story of adventure and a historic medical career....

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    • An Intimate Journey Into America's Mental Health Crisis
    • By: Kenneth Paul Rosenberg
    • Narrated by: Kenneth Paul Rosenberg
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-2019
    • Language: English
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    • A psychiatrist and award-winning documentarian sheds light on the mental-healthcare crisis in the United States....

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    • Doctor Henry Porter and Custer's Seventh Cavalry
    • By: Joan Nabseth Stevenson
    • Narrated by: Tyler Edmunds
    • Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 12-01-2015
    • Language: English
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    • Of the three surgeons who accompanied Custer's Seventh Cavalry on June 25, 1876, only the youngest, 28-year-old Henry Porter, survived that day's ordeal....

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    • Human Experimentation in America before the Second World War
    • By: Susan E. Lederer
    • Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware
    • Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 16-04-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Long before the U.S. government began conducting secret radiation and germ-warfare experiments, and long before the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, medical professionals had introduced—and hotly debated the ethics of—the use of human subjects in medical experiments.

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    • A History of Race & Disease
    • By: Arleen Marcia Tuchman
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-2020
    • Language: English
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    • Who is considered most at risk for diabetes, and why? In this thorough, engaging book, historian Arleen Tuchman examines and critiques how these questions have been answered by both the public and medical communities for over a century in the United States....

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    • Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge
    • By: Benjamin Y. Fong
    • Narrated by: Stephen Caffrey
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 19-03-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Quick Fixes is a look at American society through the lens of its pharmacological crutches. Though particularly acute in recent decades, the contradiction between America's passionate love and intense hatred for drugs has been one of its defining characteristics for over a century.

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    • How COVID-19 Placed Me on the Frontlines of a Health Care Crisis
    • By: Sandra Lindsay RN, Joanne Skerrett - contributor
    • Narrated by: Diana Blue
    • Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 17-09-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Sandra Lindsay immigrated to the United States from Jamaica in 1986 with ambitions of becoming a nurse and living the American Dream. In December 2020, she became the first person to receive the COVID-19 vaccine and was subsequently honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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    • What's Behind the Hidden Costs of Healthcare in America
    • By: Marnie Hall, Hal Rosenbluth
    • Narrated by: Stephen Graybill, Erin Bennett
    • Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 18-06-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Hal Rosenbluth shares a brutally honest but humorous account of the journey through the labyrinth of health care, including an eye-opening exploration of the skyrocketing costs—both personal and systemic—inflicted by hypochondria and the cost to the nation’s health-care system.

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    • The Medical Backstory of Spinal Tuberculosis Hidden in the Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham
    • By: Dennis A. Rasbach MD FACS
    • Narrated by: Ben Collins
    • Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 17-09-2018
    • Language: English
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    • Invalid teenager Leroy Wiley Gresham left a seven-volume diary spanning the years of secession and the Civil War. He was just 12 when he began, and he died at 17. LeRoy’s diary offers an inside look at a fateful journey that robbed an energetic and likeable young man of his youth and life....

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    • By: Steven Lomazow M.D./, Eric Fettman
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Gage
    • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 31-05-2010
    • Language: English
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    • The death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1945 sent shock waves around the world. His lifelong physician swore that the president had always been a picture of health....

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    • By: Elizabeth Brown Pryor
    • Narrated by: Sheri Leigh Horn
    • Length: 19 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 30-04-2020
    • Language: English
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    • Widely known today as the "Angel of the Battlefield", Clara Barton's personal life has always been shrouded in mystery. In Clara Barton, Professional Angel, Elizabeth Brown Pryor presents a biography of Barton that strips away the heroic exterior....

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    • David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
    • By: Victoria Johnson
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 18-07-2018
    • Language: English
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    • When Dr. David Hosack tilled the country's first botanical garden in the Manhattan soil more than 200 years ago, he didn't just dramatically alter the New York landscape; he left a monumental legacy of advocacy for public health and wide-ranging support for the sciences....

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    • Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father
    • By: Stephen Fried
    • Narrated by: John H. Mayer
    • Length: 22 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-2018
    • Language: English
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    • By the time he was 30, Dr. Benjamin Rush had signed the Declaration of Independence, edited Common Sense, toured Europe as Benjamin Franklin’s protégé, and become John Adams’s confidant, and was soon to be appointed Washington’s surgeon general....

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