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Pain Studies
- By: Lisa Olstein
- Narrated by: Lynde Houck
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
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In this extended lyric essay, a poet mines her lifelong experience with migraines to deliver a marvelously idiosyncratic cultural history of pain - how we experience, treat, and mistreat it. Her sources range from the trial of Joan of Arc to the essays of Virginia Woolf and Elaine Scarry to Hugh Laurie’s portrayal of Gregory House on House M.D. As she engages with science, philosophy, visual art, rock lyrics, and field notes from her own medical adventures (both mainstream and alternative), she finds a way to express the often-indescribable experience of living with pain.
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Pain Studies
- Narrated by: Lynde Houck
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 10-03-20
- Language: English
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On Ulcers
- By: Francis Adams - translator, Hippocrates
- Narrated by: Ellie Darvill
- Length: 36 mins
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Hippocrates revolutionized the study of medicine in Ancient Greece, but some of his ideas still influence the medical field today. In his book On Ulcers, Hippocrates details the recommended treatment for this ailment. While modern medicine has moved beyond using honey, boiled leaves, and white wine to treat ulcers, Hippocrates’ advice on diet and rest hold true. This text is fascinating for anyone interested in the historical development of medical practices.
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On Ulcers
- Narrated by: Ellie Darvill
- Length: 36 mins
- Release date: 09-10-18
- Language: English
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On Surgery
- By: Francis Adams - translator, Hippocrates
- Narrated by: Ellie Darvill
- Length: 27 mins
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Hippocrates earned the title “Father of Medicine” for his extensive work in ancient Greece. He effectively established medicine as a profession. Modern doctors still swear to uphold the ethical standards he laid out in the Hippocratic Oath. His work On Surgery provides a fascinating look into medical history and the historical practices of this great physician.
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On Surgery
- Narrated by: Ellie Darvill
- Length: 27 mins
- Release date: 09-10-18
- Language: English
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Strange Trips
- Science, Culture, and the Regulation of Drugs
- By: Lucas Richert
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
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Government, industry, and the medical profession, however, have a mixed record when it comes to framing policies and generating knowledge to address drug use and misuse. In Strange Trips, Lucas Richert investigates the myths, meanings, and boundaries of recreational drugs, palliative care drugs, and pharmaceuticals as well as struggles over product innovation, consumer protection, and freedom of choice in the medical marketplace.
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Strange Trips
- Science, Culture, and the Regulation of Drugs
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 09-04-19
- Language: English
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Good Blood
- A Doctor, a Donor, and the Incredible Breakthrough that Saved Millions of Babies
- By: Julian Guthrie
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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In Good Blood, best-selling writer Julian Guthrie tells the gripping tale of the race to cure a horrible affliction known as Rh disease that stalked families and caused a mother’s immune system to attack her own unborn child. The story is anchored by two very different men on two continents: Dr. John Gorman in New York, who would land on a brilliant yet contrarian idea, and the unassuming Australian whose almost magical blood - and his unyielding devotion to donating it - would save millions of lives.
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Good Blood
- A Doctor, a Donor, and the Incredible Breakthrough that Saved Millions of Babies
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 08-09-20
- Language: English
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The Great Secret
- The Classified World War Ii Disaster that Launched the War on Cancer
- By: Jennet Conant
- Narrated by: John Kroft
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
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On the night of December 2nd, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed a critical Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking 17 ships and killing over a thousand servicemen and hundreds of civilians. Caught in the surprise air raid was the John Harvey, an American Liberty ship carrying a top-secret cargo of 2,000 mustard bombs to be used in retaliation if the Germans resorted to gas warfare. After young sailors began suddenly dying with mysterious symptoms, Lieutenant Colonel Stewart Alexander, a doctor and chemical weapons expert, was dispatched to investigate.
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The Great Secret
- The Classified World War Ii Disaster that Launched the War on Cancer
- Narrated by: John Kroft
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 09-11-20
- Language: English
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Women of the Pandemic
- Stories from the Frontlines of COVID-19
- By: Lauren McKeon
- Narrated by: Katie Ryerson
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
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The story of the pandemic is the story of women. This riveting narrative offers an account of COVID-19, reminding us of women's leadership and resilience, reflecting back hope and humanity as we all figure out a new normal, together. Throughout history, men have fought, lost, and led us through...
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Women of the Pandemic
- Stories from the Frontlines of COVID-19
- Narrated by: Katie Ryerson
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 27-04-21
- Language: English
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Before My Time
- A Memoir of Love and Fate
- By: Ami McKay
- Narrated by: Ami McKay
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE ROBBIE ROBERTSON DARTMOUTH BOOK AWARD and the EVELYN RICHARDSON NON-FICTION AWARD Previously published as Daughter of Family G Weaving together touching scenes from her family history and her own life, Ami McKay's intimate and captivating memoir captures what it...
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Before My Time
- A Memoir of Love and Fate
- Narrated by: Ami McKay
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 24-09-19
- Language: English
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The Air They Breathe
- A Pediatrician on the Frontlines of Climate Change
- By: Debra Hendrickson
- Narrated by: Megan Tusing
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
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A timely, revelatory first look into the impact climate change has on children—the greatest moral crisis humanity faces today—by a pediatrician in the fastest warming city in America. Wildfires, hurricanes, and heat waves make headlines. But what is happening in Debra Hendrickson’s clinic...
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The Air They Breathe
- A Pediatrician on the Frontlines of Climate Change
- Narrated by: Megan Tusing
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 02-07-24
- Language: English
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Un planeta de virus
- By: Carl Zimmer, Antonio Lozano
- Narrated by: Luis García Márquez
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
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"Mientras escribo esto, a lo largo del año 2015, los científicos intentan adelantarse a las próximas pandemias. Nadie es capaz de predecir cuándo una cepa en particular llevará a cabo el salto, si acaso lo hará. Sin embargo, no estamos indefensos ante lo que la evolución pueda tenernos reservado. Contamos con recursos para contrarrestar la expansión de la gripe, como lavarnos las manos. Y los científicos están aprendiendo a fabricar vacunas más efectivas. Al menos, ya no tenemos que mirar hacia las estrellas en busca de protección." — Carl Zimmer
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Un planeta de virus
- Narrated by: Luis García Márquez
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 10-01-24
- Language: Spanish
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Demanding Compassion
- How We Humanize Healthcare Again
- By: William L. Scarlett
- Narrated by: William L. Scarlett
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
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In Demanding Compassion, Dr. William Scarlett pulls back the curtain on modern medicine—not the glossy version shown in marketing campaigns, but the reality lived by doctors, nurses, and patients every day. With candid honesty and deep conviction, Scarlett challenges both his colleagues and his patients to remember why medicine exists in the first place: to help people heal. This book is both a call to action and a blueprint for change. For burned-out physicians questioning why they ever chose this path, Scarlett offers a reminder of their purpose and the hope that change is possible.
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Demanding Compassion
- How We Humanize Healthcare Again
- Narrated by: William L. Scarlett
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 05-12-25
- Language: English
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In Quest of a Cure
- Literary and Medical Cultures of the Health Resort
- By: Sally Shuttleworth
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 26 hrs
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People have always traveled for health, but as industrial pollution increased in nineteenth-century Britain, doctors started ordering their patients abroad in ever-growing numbers. This work explores the intensity and sheer strangeness of life in these colonies, governed by illness, but where patients (before the rise of the sanatorium) could move around freely, and even indulge in winter sports. Focusing on Menton on the Riviera and Davos in the Swiss Alps, from the 1860s to the 1920s, In Quest of a Cure explores the literary and medical cultures of these resorts.
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In Quest of a Cure
- Literary and Medical Cultures of the Health Resort
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 26 hrs
- Release date: 28-07-26
- Language: English
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MAHA: Make America Healthy Again
- A Blueprint for a Thriving Nation
- By: Chauncey Crandall MD
- Narrated by: Noah Greeh
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
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Dr Chauncey Crandall—world-renowned cardiologist and author of the bestselling, groundbreaking The Simple Heart Cure—presents a comprehensive blueprint for improving public health in America, by addressing not just individuals’ behaviors, but systemic issues, policy changes, and societal shifts needed to create a healthier Nation, and WORLD!
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MAHA: Make America Healthy Again
- A Blueprint for a Thriving Nation
- Narrated by: Noah Greeh
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 02-12-25
- Language: English
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Software Is Eating the World, Yet Healthcare Remains Inedible
- How to Build the Modern, Tech-Enabled, Healthcare Experience
- By: Mariano García-Valiño
- Narrated by: Alexander Zayak
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
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Software is eating the world—transforming industries from finance to retail, from media to transportation. Yet healthcare remains stubbornly resistant to digital transformation. In Inedible, healthcare innovator Mariano García-Valiño diagnoses this anomaly, explaining why healthcare continues to lag behind and revealing how it can finally leap forward. Drawing from decades of experience at the intersection of healthcare and technology, García-Valiño identifies the root cause: today’s healthcare systems were built for an era dominated by acute, infectious diseases. That era has passed.
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Software Is Eating the World, Yet Healthcare Remains Inedible
- How to Build the Modern, Tech-Enabled, Healthcare Experience
- Narrated by: Alexander Zayak
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 26-11-25
- Language: English
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Les Morts mystérieuses de l'Histoire
- Rois, reines et princes français, de Charlemagne à Napoléon III
- By: Augustin Cabanès
- Narrated by: Voix virtuelle
- Length: 26 mins
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Précurseur de toute une génération d'auteurs à succès, le docteur Augustin Cabanès nous offre dans ce premier tome des Morts Mystérieuses de l'Histoire une lecture fascinante des morts les plus énigmatiques de notre histoire : de Charlemagne à Louis XIII, tous les grands noms passent sous le scalpel agile et érudit du docteur Cabanès. Enfin rééditées près de 100 ans après leur première publication, ces Morts Mystérieuses de l'Histoire n'ont pas pris une ride.
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Les Morts mystérieuses de l'Histoire
- Rois, reines et princes français, de Charlemagne à Napoléon III
- Narrated by: Voix virtuelle
- Length: 26 mins
- Release date: 21-07-25
- Language: French
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Magie der Emotionen
- Vom bekannten Illusionisten Derren Brown
- By: Derren Brown
- Narrated by: Asad Schwarz
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
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Unsere Emotionen spielen eine mächtige Rolle in allem, was wir denken, sagen und tun. In dieser Boot Camp-Serie erkundet Derren Brown gemeinsam mit führenden Verhaltenswissenschaftlern und verschiedenen Experten, wie wir diese kraftvollen und geheimnisvollen Kräfte kontrollieren können, die oft unser rationales Denken übernehmen und uns völlig in die Irre führen. Durch die Steigerung unserer emotionalen Intelligenz können wir unser Leben in jeder erdenklichen Weise verbessern.
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Magie der Emotionen
- Vom bekannten Illusionisten Derren Brown
- Narrated by: Asad Schwarz
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 05-11-25
- Language: German
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Doctors on the Edge
- Will Your Doctor Break the Rules for You?
- By: Fredrick R. Abrams M.D.
- Narrated by: Fredrick R. Abrams M.D.
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
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Doctors on the Edge is the true account of doctors who are faced with wrenching moral dilemmas, thrust upon them uninvited and unexpected. Sometimes complementary and sometimes conflicting, law, medicine, and morality intrude on the daily practice of medicine. In gripping stories that often include life-and-death decisions, doctors maneuver through ambiguities, subjectivity, and the essential principles of medical ethics.
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This was not appropriate for me.
- By Mrs chiverton I want my bank privacy to be kept as PRIVATE on 28-06-12
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Doctors on the Edge
- Will Your Doctor Break the Rules for You?
- Narrated by: Fredrick R. Abrams M.D.
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 17-09-09
- Language: English
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The Doctors' Plague
- Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis
- By: Sherwin B. Nuland
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
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Ignác Semmelweis is remembered for the now-commonplace notion that doctors must wash their hands before examining patients. In mid-19th century Vienna, however, this was a subversive idea. With deaths from childbed fever exploding, Semmelweis discovered that doctors themselves were spreading the disease. While his simple reforms worked immediately - childbed fever in Vienna all but disappeared - they brought down upon Semmelweis the wrath of the establishment, and led to his tragic end.
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The worst narration I have ever come across.
- By Caroline on 13-06-21
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The Doctors' Plague
- Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 30-06-20
- Language: English
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Buried Alive
- Screams Beneath the Earth
- By: Heinrich Wilson
- Narrated by: Kevon Monroe
- Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
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You scream, but no one hears you. The coffin swallows every sound. The soil presses down, heavy and final. Your chest burns, your arms cannot rise, your legs cannot move. Death is not a quiet sleep — it is a prison without escape. For centuries, people have feared one fate above all others: being buried alive. From ancient myths and medieval plagues to safety coffins, graveyard bells, and real-life cases of the “dead” awakening beneath the earth, this book uncovers the chilling history of premature burial. Step into the shadows of folklore, superstition, and science.
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Buried Alive
- Screams Beneath the Earth
- Narrated by: Kevon Monroe
- Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 28-10-25
- Language: English
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Health Freaks
- America's Diet Champions and the Specter of Chronic Illness
- By: Travis A. Weisse
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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Travis A. Weisse tells a new history of modern diets in America that goes beyond the familiar narrative of the nation’s collective failure to lose weight. By exploring how the popularity of diets grew alongside patients' frustrations with the limitations and failures of the American healthcare system in the face of chronic disease, Weisse argues that millions of Americans sought “fad” diets—such as the notorious Atkins program which ushered in the low-carbohydrate craze—to wrest control of their health from pessimistic doctors and lifelong pharmaceutical regimens.
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Health Freaks
- America's Diet Champions and the Specter of Chronic Illness
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 15-10-25
- Language: English
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