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Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds
- Ebola and the Ravages of History
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
- Length: 22 hrs and 5 mins
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In 2014, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea suffered the worst epidemic of Ebola in history. The brutal virus spread rapidly through a clinical desert, where basic health-care facilities were few and far between. Causing severe loss of life and economic disruption, the Ebola crisis was a major tragedy of modern medicine. But why did it happen, and what can we learn from it?
Paul Farmer, the internationally renowned doctor and anthropologist, experienced the Ebola outbreak firsthand - Partners in Health, the organization he founded, was among the international responders.
In Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds, he offers the first substantive account of this frightening, fast-moving episode and its implications. In vibrant prose, he tells the harrowing stories of Ebola victims while showing why the medical response was slow and insufficient. Rebutting misleading claims about the origins of Ebola and why it spread so rapidly, he traces West Africa’s chronic health failures back to centuries of exploitation and injustice. Under formal colonial rule, disease containment was a priority, but care was not - and the region’s health-care woes worsened, with devastating consequences that Farmer traces up to the present.
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In recent years, malaria has emerged as a cause célèbre for voguish philanthropists. Bill Gates, Bono, and Laura Bush are only a few of the personalities who have lent their names - and opened their pocketbooks - in hopes of curing the disease. Still, in a time when every emergent disease inspires waves of panic, why aren’t we doing more to eradicate one of our oldest foes? And how does a parasitic disease that we’ve known how to prevent for more than a century still infect 500 million people every year, killing nearly 1 million of them?
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Solid but not amazing account of malaria
- By S. Yates on 04-11-16
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Pox
- An American History
- By: Michael Willrich
- Narrated by: K. Todd Freeman
- Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
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At the turn of the last century, a smallpox epidemic swept the United States. The age-old disease spread swiftly through an increasingly interconnected American landscape: from southern plantations to the immigrant neighborhoods of northern cities to far-flung villages on the edges of the American empire. In Pox, historian Michael Willrich offers a gripping chronicle of how the nation's continent-wide fight against smallpox launched one of the most important civil liberties struggles of the 20th century.
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Best book on smallpox
- By Chris M. White on 09-07-21
By: Michael Willrich
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To Repair the World
- Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation
- By: Paul Farmer, Bill Clinton - foreword, Jonathan Weigel - editor
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett, David Ledoux, Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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Here, for the first time, is a collection of short speeches by the charismatic doctor and social activist Paul Farmer. One of the most passionate and influential voices for global health equity and social justice, Farmer encourages young people to tackle the greatest challenges of our times. Engaging, often humorous, and always inspiring, these speeches bring to light the brilliance and force of Farmer's vision in a single, accessible volume.
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Resist the Impoverishment of Aspiration
- By Susie on 05-14-13
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The Mosquito
- A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
- By: Timothy C. Winegard
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 19 hrs and 7 mins
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Why was gin and tonic the cocktail of choice for British colonists in India and Africa? What does Starbucks have to thank for its global domination? What has protected the lives of popes for millennia? Why did Scotland surrender its sovereignty to England? What was George Washington's secret weapon during the American Revolution? The answer to all these questions, and many more, is the mosquito. Driven by surprising insights and fast-paced storytelling, The Mosquito is the extraordinary untold story of the mosquito’s reign through human history.
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Major Disappointment
- By Amazon Customer on 09-02-19
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Milk of Paradise
- A History of Opium
- By: Lucy Inglis
- Narrated by: Colleen Prendergast
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
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Poppy tears, opium, heroin, fentanyl: humankind has been in thrall to the ‘Milk of Paradise’ for millennia. The latex of papaver somniferum is a bringer of sleep, of pleasurable lethargy, of relief from pain - and hugely addictive. A commodity without rival, it is renewable, easy to extract, transport and refine, and subject to an insatiable global demand. No other substance in the world is as simple to produce or as profitable. It is the basis of a gargantuan industry built upon a shady underworld, but ultimately it is a farm-gate material that lives many lives ....
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Historical gold mine....
- By Alednam A Uonopk on 01-29-20
By: Lucy Inglis
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Bellevue
- Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital
- By: David Oshinsky
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
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David Oshinsky, whose last book, Polio: An American Story, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize, chronicles the history of America's oldest hospital and in so doing also charts the rise of New York to the nation's preeminent city, the path of American medicine from butchery and quackery to a professional and scientific endeavor, and the growth of a civic institution.
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Fascinating
- By Jean on 12-14-16
By: David Oshinsky
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This Land Is Our Land
- An Immigrant's Manifesto
- By: Suketu Mehta
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
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A timely argument for why the US and the West would benefit from accepting more immigrants. Impassioned, rigorous, and richly stocked with memorable stories and characters, This Land Is Our Land is a timely and necessary intervention and a literary polemic of the highest order.
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Greatly informative. wonderful narrated
- By ADEDZWA Dooyum Sartor on 06-29-19
By: Suketu Mehta
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The Great Influenza
- The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
- By: John M. Barry
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
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In the winter of 1918, at the height of World War I, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in 24 weeks than AIDS has killed in 24 years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision between modern science and epidemic disease.
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Great book but very disturbing...
- By Tim on 01-15-09
By: John M. Barry
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The Fatal Strain
- On the Trail of Avian Flu and the Coming Pandemic
- By: Alan Sipress
- Narrated by: George K. Wilson
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
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When avian flu began spreading across Asia in the early 2000s, it reawakened fears that had lain dormant for nearly a century. During the outbreak's deadliest years, Alan Sipress chased the virus as it infiltrated remote jungle villages and teeming cities and saw its mysteries elude the world's top scientists. In The Fatal Strain, Sipress details how socioeconomic and political realities in Asia make it the perfect petri dish in which the fast-mutating strain can become easily communicable among humans.
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- By Don on 01-10-10
By: Alan Sipress
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Manual for Survival
- A Chernobyl Guide to the Future
- By: Kate Brown
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
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After 1991, international organizations from the Red Cross to Greenpeace sought to help the victims, yet found themselves stymied by post-Soviet political circumstances they did not understand. International diplomats and scientists allied to the nuclear industry evaded or denied the fact of a wide-scale public health disaster caused by radiation exposure. Efforts to spin the story about Chernobyl were largely successful; the official death toll ranges between 31 and 54 people. In reality, radiation exposure from the disaster caused between 35,000 and 150,000 deaths in Ukraine alone.
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Must read this timely book
- By Amazon Customer on 03-26-22
By: Kate Brown
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Between Hope and Fear
- A History of Vaccines and Human Immunity
- By: Michael Kinch
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins
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Between Hope and Fear tells the remarkable story of vaccine-preventable infectious diseases and their social and political implications. While detailing the history of vaccine invention, Michael Kinch reveals the ominous reality that our victories against vaccine-preventable diseases are not permanent - and could easily be undone. Between Hope and Fear relates the remarkable intersection of science, technology, and disease that has helped eradicate many of the deadliest plagues known to man.
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Enjoyed
- By Minsi Zhang on 05-03-20
By: Michael Kinch
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Three Tigers, One Mountain
- A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
- By: Michael Booth
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
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There is an ancient Chinese proverb that states, "Two tigers cannot share the same mountain." However, in East Asia, there are three tigers on that mountain: China, Japan, and Korea, and they have a long history of turmoil and tension with each other. In his latest entertaining and thought-provoking narrative travelogue, Michael Booth sets out to discover how deep, really, the enmity is between these three "tiger" nations and what prevents them from making peace.
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Not much new here if you are already familiar
- By Anonymous User on 07-13-20
By: Michael Booth
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Dirty Work
- Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
- By: Eyal Press
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
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Drone pilots who carry out targeted assassinations. Undocumented immigrants who man the "kill floors" of industrial slaughterhouses. Guards who patrol the wards of America's most violent and abusive prisons. In Dirty Work, Eyal Press offers a paradigm-shifting view of the moral landscape of contemporary America through the stories of people who perform society's most ethically troubling jobs. As Press shows, we are increasingly shielded and distanced from an array of morally questionable activities that other, less privileged people perform in our name.
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A Must Read for Conservatives
- By Nice guy on 11-05-21
By: Eyal Press
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- 05-22-22
An Enthralling Must-Read
Paul Farmer writes with candor and wit about West African history of Europian colonialism, how that colonialism ties to wars, poverty, medical deserts, and plagues, while also recounting personal experiences of friends, colleagues, patients. So thankful he left us this treasure among his enormous legacy. Don’t be afraid of its length. It is fascinating and anything but dry.
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- Sheki
- 12-01-21
eye opening
you'll look at the world and history with new eyes after reading this book. told like a story but every word is true
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- Vin
- 11-17-20
CRITICAL LISTENING for 2020!
Paul Farmer's new book about global health injustice and inequality is helping me understand this crazy year of 2020. It adds to the ongoing reckoning with slavery since 1619 and what we're seeing in unequal risk for people to get and die from COVID-19. Reading this book makes me rethink my own complicity and benefits in a long-imbalanced global community and the importance of reparations.
I think Bryan Stevenson sums up exactly how I feel about this book: "Paul Farmer's devastating account of catastrophic disease and death created by unjust systems, structures, and abusive history is timely, urgent and terrifying. This moving and compelling book is a tragic but necessary journey guided by an extraordinary anthropologist, historian, teacher, writer, and doctor who has served the poor and disfavored for decades. He has much to teach us in these perilous times."
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- Carol j Montgomery-Taylor
- 11-29-20
The Structural Violence of our times
Paul Farmer, as usual, delivers requisite information and prognoses of society brought to its knees by zoonotic viruses that care not about social status, nor social justice but spreads social violence and disparity in its wake. He speaks truth to power about the continued racialization and disparities that are present at all times and in all places in references to comparable care across the spectrum of social and structural violence. In reference to COVID-19, he states that "it may not be the great leveler but it has leapt across neatly defined social categories more nimbly than any blood-borne virus could." He reiterates that both Ebola and COVID-19 are socially determined diseases, dependent largely upon the social status of the receiver. We need think only of the deferential care that our president received when he tested positive compared to that which we can expect to receive should we be unfortunate enough to experience its ravages.
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- Livingston
- 03-23-21
You have to listen to this book
Paul Farmer has written a terrifying, honestly sobering account of Ebola and the courageous men and women who fight for the lives of its victims. The historical background is essential to the story. This book should be required reading in World History classes.
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- DA
- 01-19-21
A must read of public health wisdom
I have read many of Paul Farmer’s books after becoming fascinated by this doctor from Tracy Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains who would cure the world. But this book does such a phenomenal job in describing the anthropology of west Africa that universities could use the middle chapters as supplemental text for masters programs studying African history.
It is not dry medical reading, it is a legitimate page turner and exposes so many truths that need to be said. The title is about Ebola and within that gruesome topic, myths and untruths are dispelled. An epilogue on coronavirus is included, written April 10, 2020. But throughout the book, there is also an undercurrent of a defense of Tony Fauci by someone who has been his colleague and friend for many many years, long before Fauci was a household name. It destroys the untruths being told by far too many non experts and even government representatives saying there is something sinister about Fauci. Makes you want to shake them and say, how about you get to know the guy and if not at least learn his history before popping off.
Paul is a genius. But I’ve read enough to also know that Paul and Fauci are the best of us. They are true medical heroes. They care deeply about fellow humans, enough to risk their lives and reputations to try to heal them. This is loving your neighbor. Put this book in your head. I dare say you will find both Farmer and Fauci in your heart.
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- Winifred Hinson
- 03-05-21
a college course in itself
You will learn so much not only about Ebola but the history behind the countries where it has occurred and how economic exploitation, underdevelopment, and war contribute to the conditions for a pandemic to thrive..
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