Public Health History

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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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    • Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
    • By: Paul A. Offit MD
    • Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
    • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • History is filled with brilliant ideas that gave rise to disaster, and this book explores the most fascinating - and significant - missteps....

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    • America in the Time of COVID
    • By: Lawrence Wright
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Just as Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower became the defining account of our century's first devastating event, 9/11, so The Plague Year will become the defining account of the second....

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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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    • Inside the Strange & Menacing World of Antarctica
    • By: Nicholas Johnson, Eirik Sonneland - foreword
    • Narrated by: Aaron Abano
    • Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • When Johnson went to work for the US Antarctic Program, he figured he'd find adventure, beauty, penguins, and lofty-minded scientists. Instead he found boredom, alcohol, and bureaucracy....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Anthony Storr
    • Narrated by: Neville Jason
    • Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 26-12-2004
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Sigmund Freud revolutionized the way in which we think about ourselves....

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    • A Surplus Manifesto
    • By: Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Artie Vierkant
    • Narrated by: Sarah Welborn
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 18-10-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Written by cohosts of the hit Death Panel podcast and longtime disability justice and healthcare activists Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie, Health Communism first examines how capital has instrumentalized health, disability, madness, and illness....

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    • How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World
    • By: Geoff Mulgan
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 28-11-2017
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • A new field of collective intelligence has emerged in the last few years, prompted by a wave of digital technologies that make it possible for organizations and societies to think at large scale....

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    • The Hidden Science of Fighting Outbreaks
    • By: Caitlin Rivers PhD
    • Narrated by: Jaime Lamchick
    • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Caitlin Rivers illuminates the role of epidemiology in all our lives, weaving together stories of triumph and tragedy, with a boots-on-the-ground perspective on how we can avert the next public health crisis.

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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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    • How Tuberculosis Shaped History
    • By: Vidya Krishnan
    • Narrated by: Sneha Mathan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The definitive social history of tuberculosis, from its origins as a haunting mystery to its modern reemergence that now threatens populations around the world....

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    • The Modern Pharmaceutical Industry and the Betrayal of a History of Care
    • By: Michael Kinch, Lori Weiman, Mark Cuban - foreword
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Medicines are arguably the most highly regulated - and cost-inflated - products in the United States. The Price of Health is the reveals the story of how the pharmaceutical enterprise took shape and led to the present crisis....

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    • A Short History of Living Longer
    • By: Steven Johnson
    • Narrated by: Steven Johnson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • In 1920, at the end of the last major pandemic, global life expectancy was just over 40 years. Today, in many parts of the world, human beings can expect to live more than 80 years. As a species, we have doubled our life expectancy in just one century....

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    • One Man's Fight to End the Global HIV Epidemic
    • By: Seema Yasmin, Mabel van Oranje - foreword
    • Narrated by: Seema Yasmin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-2019
    • Language: English
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    • Dr. Lange graduated from medical school in 1981, right as a new plague swept across the globe. His story became intertwined with the story of HIV. At once a physician, scientist, AIDS activist, and medical diplomat, Lange studied ways to battle HIV and prevent its spread....

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    • Patient Safety and the Middle-Managing of American Medicine
    • By: Robert L. Wears, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-2020
    • Language: English
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    • Still Not Safe is the story of the rise of the patient - safety movement - and how an "epidemic" of medical errors was derived from a reality that didn't support such a characterization....

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    • The Impossible Adventure of a Spiritual Seeker and Visionary Physician Who Helped Conquer the Worst Disease in History
    • By: Larry Brilliant
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-2016
    • Language: English
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    • The unforgettable, entertaining, and inspiring memoir of the activist, teacher, entrepreneur, and spiritual leader that illuminates some of the most revolutionary events of a generation....

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