Modern Medicine History
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A Short History of Medicine
- Modern Library Chronicles
- Written by: Frank Gonzalez-Crussi
- Narrated by: John McDonough
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Praised for his erudite writing, renowned scientist Frank Gonzalez-Crussi penned this concise history of medicine, beginning with the most primitive health-care practices and ending with the technology of modern medicine that we enjoy today. As with all Modern Library Chronicles, A Short History of Medicine is a wonderful primer for anyone interested in the subject.
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A Short History of Medicine
- Modern Library Chronicles
- Narrated by: John McDonough
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 2008-02-22
- Language: English
- Praised for his erudite writing, renowned scientist Frank Gonzalez-Crussi penned this concise history of medicine....
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Overkill
- When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far
- Written by: Paul A. Offit
- Narrated by: Tim H. Dixon
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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An acclaimed medical expert and patient advocate offers an eye-opening look at many common and widely used medical interventions that have been shown to be far more harmful than helpful. Yet, surprisingly, despite clear evidence to the contrary, most doctors continue to recommend them.
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very interesting
- By sébastien fredette on 2022-05-25
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Overkill
- When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far
- Narrated by: Tim H. Dixon
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 2020-04-14
- Language: English
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An acclaimed medical expert and patient advocate offers an eye-opening look at many common and widely used medical interventions that have been shown to be far more harmful than helpful....
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The Invention of Surgery
- A History of Modern Medicine: From the Renaissance to the Implant Revolution
- Written by: David Schneider MD
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 23 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Written by an author with plenty of experience holding a scalpel, Dr. David Schneider's in-depth biography is an encompassing history of the practice that has leapt forward over the centuries from the dangerous guesswork of ancient Greek physicians through the world-changing implant revolution of the 20th century.
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Good until the end
- By Emily Holmes on 2022-12-17
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The Invention of Surgery
- A History of Modern Medicine: From the Renaissance to the Implant Revolution
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 23 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2020-03-03
- Language: English
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Written by an author with plenty of experience holding a scalpel, Dr. David Schneider's in-depth biography is an encompassing history of the practice that has leapt forward over the centuries from the dangerous guesswork of ancient Greek physicians....
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The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine
- A History
- Written by: Thomas Helling MD
- Narrated by: Mack Sanderson
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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The Great War of 1914-1918 burst on the European scene with a brutality to mankind not yet witnessed by the civilized world. Modern warfare was no longer the stuff of chivalry and honor; it was a mutilative, deadly, and humbling exercise to wipe out the very presence of humanity. Suddenly, thousands upon thousands of maimed, beaten, and bleeding men surged into aid stations and hospitals with injuries unimaginable in their scope and destruction. Doctors scrambled to find some way to salvage not only life but limb.
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The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine
- A History
- Narrated by: Mack Sanderson
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 2022-03-01
- Language: English
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A startling narrative, The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine reveals the impressive medical and surgical advances that quickly developed as solutions to the horrors unleashed by World War I....
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The Sawbones Book
- The Horrifying, Hilarious Road to Modern Medicine
- Written by: Justin McElroy, Dr. Sydnee McElroy
- Narrated by: Justin McElroy, Dr. Sydnee McElroy
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
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Wondering whether eating powdered mummies might be just the thing to cure your ills? Tempted by those vintage ads suggesting you wear radioactive underpants for virility? Ever considered drilling a hole in your head to deal with those pesky headaches? Probably not. But for thousands of years, people have done things like this - and things that make radioactive underpants seem downright sensible! In their hit podcast, Sawbones, Sydnee and Justin McElroy breakdown the weird and wonderful way we got to modern healthcare. And some of the terrifying detours along the way.
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Good but not quite as good as podcast
- By Chloe on 2019-06-07
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The Sawbones Book
- The Horrifying, Hilarious Road to Modern Medicine
- Narrated by: Justin McElroy, Dr. Sydnee McElroy
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 2018-11-13
- Language: English
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In their hit podcast, Sawbones, Sydnee and Justin McElroy breakdown the weird and wonderful way we got to modern healthcare. And some of the terrifying detours along the way....
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Pandemic 1918
- Eyewitness Accounts from the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History
- Written by: Catharine Arnold
- Narrated by: Peter Wickham
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In January 1918, as World War I raged on, a new and terrifying virus began to spread across the globe. In three successive waves, from 1918 to 1919, influenza killed more than 50 million people. German soldiers termed it Blitzkatarrh, British soldiers referred to it as Flanders Grippe, but worldwide, the pandemic gained the notorious title of “Spanish flu”. Nowhere on earth escaped: the United States recorded 550,000 deaths (five times its total military fatalities in the war) while European deaths totaled more than two million.
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An excellent account of the Spanish Flu Pandemic
- By David Zulkoskey on 2022-12-02
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Pandemic 1918
- Eyewitness Accounts from the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History
- Narrated by: Peter Wickham
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 2020-06-16
- Language: English
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Before AIDS or coronavirus, there was the Spanish flu - Catharine Arnold's gripping narrative, Pandemic 1918, marks the 100th anniversary of an epidemic that altered world history....
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And the Band Played On
- Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
- Written by: Randy Shilts
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 31 hrs and 44 mins
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By the time Rock Hudson's death in 1985 alerted all America to the danger of the AIDS epidemic, the disease had spread across the nation, killing thousands of people and emerging as the greatest health crisis of the 20th century. America faced a troubling question: What happened? How was this epidemic allowed to spread so far before it was taken seriously?
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Never forget
- By Anonymous User on 2021-07-12
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And the Band Played On
- Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 31 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 2009-08-11
- Language: English
- And the Band Played On is both a tribute to these heroic people and a stinging indictment of the institutions that failed the nation so badly....
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Splendid Solution
- Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio
- Written by: Jeffrey Kluger
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Salk became a cultural hero and icon for a whole generation. Now, at the fiftieth anniversary of the first national vaccination program, and as humanity is tantalizingly close to eradicating polio worldwide, comes this unforgettable chronicle. Salk's work was an unparalleled achievement, and it makes for a magnificent listen.
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Splendid Solution
- Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 2006-02-03
- Language: English
- Salk became a cultural hero and icon for a whole generation....
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Pure America
- Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia
- Written by: Elizabeth Catte
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
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Between 1927 and 1979, more than 8,000 people were involuntarily sterilized in five hospitals across the state of Virginia. From this plain and terrible fact springs Elizabeth Catte's Pure America, a sweeping, unsparing history of eugenics in Virginia, and by extension the United States.
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Pure America
- Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 2021-04-20
- Language: English
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Between 1927 and 1979, more than 8,000 people were involuntarily sterilized in five hospitals across the state of Virginia. From this plain and terrible fact springs Elizabeth Catte's Pure America, a sweeping, unsparing history of eugenics in Virginia....
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Blood Runs Coal
- The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America
- Written by: Mark A. Bradley
- Narrated by: Perry Daniels
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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Blood Runs Coal comes at a time of resurgent labor movements in the United States and the current administration's attempts to bolster the fossil-fuel industry. Brilliantly researched and compellingly written, it sheds light on the far-reaching effects of industrial and socioeconomic change that unfold across America to this day.
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A Tough Story Told Simply
- By Chris Friel on 2024-04-09
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Blood Runs Coal
- The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America
- Narrated by: Perry Daniels
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 2020-10-27
- Language: English
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Blood Runs Coal sheds light on the far-reaching effects of industrial and socioeconomic change that unfold across America to this day....
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The Autumn Ghost
- How the Battle Against a Polio Epidemic Revolutionized Modern Medical Care
- Written by: Hannah Wunsch
- Narrated by: Emily Durante
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
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Intensive care units and mechanical ventilation are the crucial foundation of modern medical care: without them, the appalling death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic would be even higher. In The Autumn Ghost, Dr. Hannah Wunsch traces the origins of these two innovations back to a polio epidemic in the autumn of 1952. Drawing together testimony from doctors, nurses, medical students, and patients, Wunsch relates a gripping tale of an epidemic that changed the world.
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The Autumn Ghost
- How the Battle Against a Polio Epidemic Revolutionized Modern Medical Care
- Narrated by: Emily Durante
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2024-01-30
- Language: English
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The Autumn Ghost will leave listeners in awe of the courage of those who battled the polio epidemic, and grateful for the modern medical care they pioneered....
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Slouch
- Posture Panic in Modern America
- Written by: Beth Linker
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
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In 1995, a scandal erupted when the New York Times revealed that the Smithsonian possessed a century’s worth of nude “posture” photos of college students. In this riveting history, Beth Linker tells why these photos were only a small part of the incredible story of twentieth-century America’s largely forgotten posture panic—a decades-long episode in which it was widely accepted as scientific fact that Americans were suffering from an epidemic of bad posture, with potentially catastrophic health consequences.
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Slouch
- Posture Panic in Modern America
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 2024-04-09
- Language: English
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This audiobook recounts the strange and surprising history of the so-called epidemic of bad posture in modern America—from eugenics and posture pageants to today’s promoters of “paleo posture”....
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Say Anarcha
- A Young Woman, a Devious Surgeon, and the Harrowing Birth of Modern Women's Health
- Written by: J. C. Hallman
- Narrated by: Ariel Blake, Peter Ganim
- Length: 19 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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For more than a century, Dr. J. Marion Sims was hailed as the “father of modern gynecology.” He founded a hospital in New York City and had a profitable career treating gentry and royalty in Europe, becoming one of the world’s first celebrity surgeons. Statues were built in his honor, but he wasn’t the hero he had made himself appear to be. Sims’s greatest medical claim was the result of several years of experimental surgeries—without anesthesia—on a young enslaved woman known as Anarcha; his so-called cure for obstetric fistula forever altered the path of women’s health.
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Say Anarcha
- A Young Woman, a Devious Surgeon, and the Harrowing Birth of Modern Women's Health
- Narrated by: Ariel Blake, Peter Ganim
- Length: 19 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 2023-06-06
- Language: English
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A compelling reckoning with the birth of women’s health, Say Anarcha illuminates the sacrifices of a young woman who changed the world only to be forgotten by it—until now....
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Miracle Cure
- The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine
- Written by: William Rosen
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
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As late as the 1930s, virtually no drug intended for sickness did any good; doctors could set bones, deliver babies, and offer palliative care. That all changed in less than a generation with the discovery and development of a new category of medicine known as antibiotics. By 1955 the age-old evolutionary relationship between humans and microbes had been transformed, trivializing once-deadly infections.
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Miracle Cure
- The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2017-05-09
- Language: English
- As late as the 1930s, virtually no drug intended for sickness did any good; doctors could set bones, deliver babies, and offer palliative care. That all changed in less than a generation....
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The Price of Health
- The Modern Pharmaceutical Industry and the Betrayal of a History of Care
- Written by: Michael Kinch, Lori Weiman, Mark Cuban - foreword
- Narrated by: John McLain
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
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Medicines are arguably the most highly regulated - and cost-inflated - products in the United States. The discovery, development, manufacturing, and distribution of medicines is carried out by an ever more complex and crowded set of industries, each playing a part in a larger “pharmaceutical enterprise” seeking to maximize profits. But this was not always the case. 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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The Price of Health
- The Modern Pharmaceutical Industry and the Betrayal of a History of Care
- Narrated by: John McLain
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 2021-04-06
- 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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Modern Death
- How Medicine Changed the End of Life
- Written by: Haider Warraich M.D.
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
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There is no more universal truth in life than death. No matter who you are, it is certain that one day you will die, but the mechanics and understanding of that experience will differ greatly in today's modern age. Dr. Haider Warraich is a young and brilliant new voice in the conversation about death and dying started by Dr. Sherwin Nuland and Atul Gawande. Dr. Warraich takes a broader look at how we die today, from the cellular level up to the very definition of death itself.
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Modern Death
- How Medicine Changed the End of Life
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 2017-02-07
- Language: English
- There is no more universal truth in life than death. No matter who you are, it is certain that one day you will die....
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Medical Marvels: Amazing Health Discoveries
- A Brief History in Modern Medicine
- Written by: George Edwards
- Narrated by: Christopher Lloyd Owen
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
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Step into the captivating world of healthcare innovation and scientific breakthroughs with Medical Marvels: Amazing Discoveries in Health. This meticulously crafted journey takes you on a 30-day exploration of the most remarkable milestones in the field of medicine and healthcare. Each day unveils a new chapter in the story of humanity's quest for better health, offering a glimpse into the groundbreaking discoveries, cutting-edge technologies, and revolutionary advancements that have shaped the way we understand and approach healthcare.
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Medical Marvels: Amazing Health Discoveries
- A Brief History in Modern Medicine
- Narrated by: Christopher Lloyd Owen
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 2023-11-14
- Language: English
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Step into the captivating world of healthcare innovation and scientific breakthroughs with Medical Marvels: Amazing Discoveries in Health. This meticulously crafted journey takes you on a 30-day exploration of the most remarkable milestones in the field of medicine and healthcare....
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Magic Medicine
- A Trip Through the Intoxicating History and Modern-Day Use of Psychedelic Plants and Substances
- Written by: Cody Johnson
- Narrated by: Steve Quinn
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
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Magic Medicine is an armchair traveler's guide to all substances psychedelic! Listeners will learn about their properties, use, lore, place in history, and their current research and applications as medicine.
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Magic Medicine
- A Trip Through the Intoxicating History and Modern-Day Use of Psychedelic Plants and Substances
- Narrated by: Steve Quinn
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 2023-06-20
- Language: English
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Magic Medicine is an armchair traveler's guide to all substances psychedelic! Listeners will learn about their properties, use, lore, place in history, and their current research and applications as medicine....
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