American Medicine

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    • The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry
    • By: Paul Starr
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 24 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 114 ratings
    • Considered the definitive history of the American healthcare system, The Social Transformation of American Medicine examines how the roles of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs have evolved over the last two and a half centuries....

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    • Herbal and Non-Herbal Treatments
    • By: Herbert C. Covey
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • African American Slave Medicine offers a critical examination of how African American slaves' medical needs were addressed during the years before and surrounding the Civil War....

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    • A Practical Guide to Healing Plants and Folk Traditions
    • By: Lucretia VanDyke
    • Narrated by: Sanya Simmons
    • Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Discover the roots of modern-day herbal remedies, plant medicine, holistic rituals, natural recipes, and more that were created by African American herbal healers throughout history....

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    • A Global History of the First Psychedelic
    • By: Mike Jay
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 79 ratings
    • A definitive history of mescaline that explores its mind-altering effects across cultures, from ancient America to Western modernity....

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    • The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
    • By: Harriet A. Washington
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 19 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,246 ratings
    • Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans....

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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: 07-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • 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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    • A Journey in Native American Healing
    • By: David Carson
    • Narrated by: Jason Manuel Olazabal
    • Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 244 ratings
    • David Carson's personal story of his initiation into the mysterious healing rites of the Choctaw with medicine woman Mary Gardener....

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    • The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, The Epidemic That Shaped Our History
    • By: Molly Caldwell Crosby
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • Compelling and terrifying, The American Plague depicts the story of yellow fever and its reign in this country - and in Africa, where even today it strikes thousands every year....

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    • The Life and Teachings of a Native American Shaman
    • By: Bear Heart, Molly Larkin - contributor
    • Narrated by: Larry Winters
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 504 ratings
    • With eloquent simplicity, one of the world's last Native American medicine men demonstrates how traditional tribal wisdom can help us maintain spiritual and physical health in today's world....

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    • By: Richard Wagamese
    • Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
    • Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 05-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 285 ratings
    • Franklin Starlight is called to visit his father Eldon. He's 16 years old and has had the most fleeting of relationships with the man....

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    • The Story of the First Native American Nursing School
    • By: Jim Kristofic
    • Narrated by: Jim Kristofic
    • Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • After the Indian wars, many Americans still believed that the only good Indian was a dead Indian. But at Ganado Mission in the Navajo country of Northern Arizona, a group of missionaries and doctors chose a different way....

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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: 07-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • 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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    • A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care
    • By: Dayna Bowen Matthew
    • Narrated by: Diana Blue
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Health disparities have remained stubbornly entrenched in the American health care system - and in Just Medicine Dayna Bowen Matthew finds that they principally arise from unconscious racial and ethnic biases held by physicians, institutional providers, and their patients....

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    • The Quest Continues
    • By: Graham Hancock
    • Narrated by: Graham Hancock
    • Length: 18 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,778 ratings
    • An intellectual detective story, this history audiobook directs probing questions at orthodox history, presenting disturbing new evidence that historians have tried - but failed - to explain....

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    • The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek
    • By: Howard Markel
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • Howard Markel tells the sweeping saga of two extraordinary men, whose lifelong competition and enmity toward one another changed America's notion of health and wellness from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries, and who helped change the course of American medicine, nutrition, wellness, and diet....

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    • The Surprising Truth About How Modern Medicine Keeps You Sick - How to Choose a Healthier, Happier, and Disease-Free Life
    • By: Raymond Francis
    • Narrated by: Dan Gilvezan
    • Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In The Great American Health Hoax, Francis exposes the truth about how to stay healthy and introduces us to a way of life that can become a "highway to health", while he quite effectively demonstrates that we really don't have to be sick....

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    • Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine
    • By: Tom Mueller
    • Narrated by: Melissa Kay Benson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • How to Make a Killing reveals dialysis as a microcosm of American medicine and poses a vital challenge: find a way to fix dialysis, and we'll have a fighting chance of fixing our country's dysfunctional healthcare system as a whole, restoring patients, not profits, as its true purpose....

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    • Ten Men and Women Who Reinvented American Medicine
    • By: Ralph H. Hruban, Will Linder
    • Narrated by: Tristan Morris
    • Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Johns Hopkins University, one of the preeminent medical schools in the nation today, has played a unique role in the history of medicine. When it first opened its doors in 1893, medicine was a rough-and-ready trade. It would soon evolve into a rigorous science....

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