Health Care History

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    • Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich (The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series)
    • By: Thom Hartmann
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Series: The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series
    • Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • Popular progressive radio host and New York Times best-selling author Thom Hartmann reveals how and why attempts to establish affordable universal healthcare in the United States have been thwarted and what we can do to finally make it a reality....

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    • A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
    • By: Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,075 ratings
    • What won't we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth? Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine was dosed like Viagra....

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    • A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus
    • By: Bill Wasik, Monica Murphy
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 07-19-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,406 ratings
    • A fresh, fascinating, and often wildly entertaining look at one of mankind’s oldest and most fearsome foes....

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    • Life and Death in the Middle Ages
    • By: Jack Hartnell
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • Bringing together medicine, art, music, politics, philosophy, religion, and social history, there is no better guide to what life was really like for the men and women who lived and died in the Middle Ages....

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    • By: Thomas Hager
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,500 ratings
    • Fast-paced, suspenseful, and utterly satisfying, The Demon Under the Microscope is a sweeping history of the discovery of the first antibiotic and its dramatic effect on the world....

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    • Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe
    • By: William Rosen
    • Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
    • Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 446 ratings
    • The emperor Justinian reunified Rome's fractured empire by defeating the Goths and Vandals. Then, in the summer of 542, he encountered a flea....

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    • From Hemlock to Botox and the Killer Bean Calabar
    • By: Peter Macinnis
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 02-24-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • A wide-ranging and provocative look - teeming with little-known facts and engaging stories - at a subject of the direst interest....

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    • Disease and the Course of Human History
    • By: Kyle Harper
    • Narrated by: Tim Fannon
    • Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 100 ratings
    • Plagues upon the Earth tells the story of how pathogenic microbes have been an intimate part of human history from the beginning - and how our deadliest germs and biggest pandemics are the product of our success as a species....

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    • Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
    • By: Stacy Horn
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 409 ratings
    • Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell's Island. There, over the next hundred years, the city would build a lunatic asylum, prison, hospital, workhouse, and almshouse....

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    • Past, Present, and Future
    • By: Michael B. A. Oldstone
    • Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
    • Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 571 ratings
    • The story of viruses and humanity is a story of fear and ignorance, of grief and heartbreak, and of great bravery and sacrifice. Michael Oldstone tells all these stories as he illuminates the history of the devastating diseases that have tormented humanity....

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    • The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
    • By: Edith Sheffer
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, aiming to treat those children he deemed capable of participating fully in society. Depicted as a compassionate researcher, Asperger was in fact deeply influenced by Nazi psychiatry....

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    • Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire
    • By: Kyle Harper
    • Narrated by: Andrew Garman
    • Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 409 ratings
    • A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman Empire....

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    • Firsthand Accounts of Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program
    • By: Hal Gold, Yuma Totani - foreword
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 08-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 308 ratings
    • Some of the cruelest deeds of Japan's war in Asia did not occur on the battlefield, but in quiet, antiseptic medical wards in obscure parts of China. Far from front lines and prying eyes, Japanese doctors and their assistants subjected human guinea pigs to gruesome medical experiments....

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    • Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle
    • By: Thea Cooper, Arthur Ainsberg
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • Relive the heartwarming true story of the discovery of insulin as it's never been told before. Written with authentic detail and suspense, and featuring walk-ons by William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, and Eli Lilly himself, among many others....

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    • The Story of Inflammation, Diet, and Disease
    • By: Shilpa Ravella
    • Narrated by: Suzie Althens
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 10-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • Gastroenterologist Shilpa Ravella takes us on a lyrical quest across time, around the world, and into the body to reveal hidden inflammation at the root of modern disease―and how we can control it....

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    • A History of Surgery
    • By: Richard Hollingham
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 80 ratings
    • Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making limb transplants, face transplants, and a host of other previously undreamed-of operations possible. But getting here has not been a simple story of medical progress....

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    • How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
    • By: Janice P. Nimura
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 01-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 204 ratings
    • Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope of "ordinary" womanhood....

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    • A Cultural History of DMT
    • By: Graham St John, Dennis McKenna - foreword
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Since the mid-1950s, the psychoactive compound DMT has attracted the attention of experimentalists, prohibitionists, scientists, artists, alchemists, and hyperspace emissaries....

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