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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • An Insiders' Account of the Shocking Medical Experiment Conducted by Government Doctors Against African American Men
    • By: Fred D. Gray
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • In 1932, the US Public Health Service recruited 623 African American men from Macon County, Alabama, for a study of "the effects of untreated syphilis in the Negro male". For the next 40 years, these men were denied medical care for this potentially fatal disease....

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    • A Doctor’s Coming-of-Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine
    • By: Rachel Pearson MD
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 648 ratings
    • In medical charts, the term "N.A.D." (No Apparent Distress) is used for patients who appear stable. The phrase also aptly describes America's medical system....

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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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    • 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 101 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 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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    • Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
    • By: Deirdre Cooper Owens
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 179 ratings
    • Medical Bondage moves between southern plantations and northern urban centers to reveal how 19th-century American ideas about race, health, and status influenced doctor-patient relationships in sites of healing like slave cabins, medical colleges, and hospitals....

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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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    • The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics
    • By: Stephen Coss
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • During the worst smallpox epidemic in Boston history, Puritan Cotton Mather convinced Doctor Zabdiel Boylston to try a procedure that he believed would prevent death....

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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: 06-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • 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 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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    • Improve Your Health, Wellness & Vitality with Indigenous Healing Practices, Medicinal Plants, Natural Herbs, & Herbalist Remedies
    • By: History Brought Alive
    • Narrated by: Grace Noble
    • Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-23
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • In this audiobook you’ll learn all about Native American herbalism to improve your health, wellness, and vitality with indigenous healing practices, medicinal plants, natural herbs, and herbalist remedies....

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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 499 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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    • What We Need to Talk About When We Talk About Health
    • By: Sandro Galea
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Americans spend more money on health than people anywhere else in the world. And what do they get for it? Statistically, not much. Americans today live shorter, less healthy lives than citizens of other rich countries, and these trends show no signs of letting up....

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