History African Medicine

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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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    • By: Rebecca Skloot
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16,687 ratings
    • Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....

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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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    • The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century
    • By: Jasmine Brown
    • Narrated by: Wanda Rush
    • Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Black women physicians’ stories have gone untold for far too long, leaving gaping holes in American medical history, in women’s history, and in black history. It’s time to set the record straight....

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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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    • The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
    • By: Kevin Hazzard
    • Narrated by: Gilbert Glenn Brown
    • Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 232 ratings
    • The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the world....

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    • Tracking Ancient Africans to The Sciences of The Cosmos
    • By: IMURPHY 111000
    • Narrated by: Ivy Murphy
    • Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • It was a normal day in high school, until one of my instructors began to lecture. That day, he used an inane theory to teach classrooms of students, most of whom were white, to believe that people of African descent were intellectually inferior. I didn’t believe him....

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    • The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South
    • By: Chip Jones
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this “startling...powerful” (Kirkus Reviews) investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race....

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    • Ebola and the Ravages of History
    • By: Paul Farmer
    • Narrated by: Pete Cross
    • Length: 22 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • 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....

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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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    • By: Barbara Peacock
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 08-17-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Soul care director Barbara Peacock illustrates a journey of prayer, spiritual direction, and soul care from an African American perspective. She reflects on how these disciplines are woven into the African American culture and lived out in the rich heritage of its faith community....

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    • A Young Woman, a Devious Surgeon, and the Harrowing Birth of Modern Women's Health
    • By: J. C. Hallman
    • Narrated by: Ariel Blake, Peter Ganim
    • Length: 19 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • 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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    • The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care
    • By: John Dittmer
    • Narrated by: Justine Eyre
    • Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • The Medical Committee for Human Rights was organized in the summer of 1964 by medical professionals to provide care and support for Civil Rights activists....

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    • By: Rebecca Skloot
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 118 ratings
    • Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells – taken without her knowledge – became a multimillion-dollar industry and one of the most important tools in medicine....

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    • One Man's Fight Against One of the World's Deadliest Diseases
    • By: Ross I. Donaldson MD MPH
    • Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • The Lassa Ward is more than just an adventure story about the making of a physician; it is a portrait of the Sierra Leone people and the human struggle of those risking their daily comforts and lives to aid them....

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    • How to Change the World One Dead Mosquito at a Time
    • By: Alex Perry
    • Narrated by: Ken Maxon
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • In 2006, Wall Street pioneer and philanthropist Ray Chambers began an unprecedented, worldwide effort to eradicate a disease that has haunted humanity since before the advent of medicine....

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