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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 16,698 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 Life of Nate Shaw
    • By: Theodore Rosengarten
    • Narrated by: Sean Crisden
    • Length: 23 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • All God's Dangers is the plainspoken story of an "over average" man who witnessed momentous changes in the lives of Southern people, Black and White....

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    • Medicine and What Matters in the End
    • By: Atul Gawande
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13,931 ratings
    • Being Mortal asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end....

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    • How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened by Killer Pandemics, Exotic Viruses, and Drug-Resistant Parasites
    • By: Alexandra Levitt
    • Narrated by: Julie McKay
    • Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 386 ratings
    • Take a visit to the frontline as scientists fight to solve medical mysteries....

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    • The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    • By: Mary Roach
    • Narrated by: Shelly Frasier
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 02-26-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,340 ratings
    • An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem....

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    • How Scientists, Surgeons, and a War Hero Made the First Successful Organ Transplant a Reality
    • By: Shelley Fraser Mickle
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Against a global backdrop of wartime suffering and postwar hope, Borrowing Life gathers the personal histories of the men and women behind the team that enabled and performed the modern medical miracle of the world's first successful organ transplant....

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    • Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town
    • By: Brian Alexander
    • Narrated by: Nick Landrum
    • Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 140 ratings
    • The Hospital is an intimate, heart-wrenching portrait of one small hospital that reveals the magnitude of America’s health care crises....

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    • Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
    • By: Louise Aronson
    • Narrated by: Eliza Foss
    • Length: 18 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 146 ratings
    • As revelatory as Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson’s Elderhood is an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life....

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    • Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
    • By: Joshua D. Mezrich
    • Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 01-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 262 ratings
    • At the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Joshua Mezrich creates life from loss, transplanting organs from one body to another. In this intimate, profoundly moving work, he illuminates the extraordinary field of transplantation that enables this kind of miracle to happen every day....

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    • How Converging Technologies Are Disrupting Business, Industries, and Our Lives
    • By: Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
    • Narrated by: Peter H. Diamandis
    • Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,197 ratings
    • From the New York Times best-selling authors of Abundance and Bold comes a practical playbook for technological convergence in our modern era....

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    • A Short History of Living Longer
    • By: Steven Johnson
    • Narrated by: Steven Johnson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 163 ratings
    • In 1920, at the end of the last major pandemic, global life expectancy was just over 40 years. Today, in many parts of the world, human beings can expect to live more than 80 years. As a species, we have doubled our life expectancy in just one century....

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    • The Conquest of Bread, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, Fields, Factories and Workshops, An Appeal to the Young and The Life of Kropotkin
    • By: Peter Kropotkin, CSA Publishing
    • Narrated by: Lee Goettl
    • Length: 24 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • The Peter Kropotkin Anthology includes The Conquest of Bread, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, Fields, Factories and Workshops, Appeal to the Young, and an original biography of Kropotkin titled The Life of Kropotkin....

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    • The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
    • By: Linda Villarosa
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 152 ratings
    • From an award-winning writer at the New York Times Magazine and a contributor to the 1619 Project comes a landmark book that tells the full story of racial health disparities in America, revealing the toll racism takes on individuals and the health of our nation....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Garth Stein
    • Narrated by: Seth Numrich
    • Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 540 ratings
    • When a boy tries to save his parents’ marriage, he uncovers a legacy of family secrets in a coming-of-age ghost story....

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    • The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society
    • By: Dr. Arline T. Geronimus
    • Narrated by: Alma Cuervo
    • Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Fusing science and social justice, renowned public health researcher Dr. Arline T. Geronimus offers an urgent and necessary book exploring the ways in which systemic injustice erodes the health of marginalized people....

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    • How an Elusive Ideal Has Transformed Science, Politics, and Everyday Life
    • By: Steven Epstein
    • Narrated by: Steve Menasche
    • Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
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    • In this book Steven Epstein analyzes the rise, proliferation, uptake, and sprawling consequences of sexual health activities, offering critical tools to assess those consequences, expand capacities for collective decision making, and identify pathways that promote social justice....

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    • How Medicine Changed the End of Life
    • By: Haider Warraich M.D.
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 88 ratings
    • There is no more universal truth in life than death. No matter who you are, it is certain that one day you will die....

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    • The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery
    • By: Wendy Moore
    • Narrated by: Steve West
    • Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 233 ratings
    • In The Knife Man, Wendy Moore unveils John Hunter's murky and macabre world - a world characterized by public hangings....

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    • How Inequality Kills
    • By: David A. Ansell
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • The poor die sooner. Blacks die sooner. And poor urban Blacks die sooner than almost all other Americans....

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