Medical America History

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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 1,271 ratings
    • Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans....

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    • Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II
    • By: Evelyn M. Monahan, Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 21 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 125 ratings
    • From the North African and Italian campaigns to the liberation of France and the conquest of Germany, Army nurses rose to the demands of war on the front lines with grit, humor, and great heroism. And If I Perish is also a powerful tribute to these women and their inspiring legacy....

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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 51 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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    • Adultery Abortion Contraception Other Unspeakable Horrors
    • By: David Rountree
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-25
    • Language: English
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    • Naughty Victorians lifts the starched petticoats of 19th-century propriety to reveal the delightfully messy truths hidden beneath. With wit as ...

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    • Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
    • By: Sheri Fink
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 17 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,603 ratings
    • After Hurricane Katrina struck and power failed, amid rising floodwaters and heat, exhausted staff at Memorial Medical Center designated certain patients last for rescue. Months later, a doctor and two nurses were arrested and accused of injecting some of those patients with life-ending drugs....

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    • A Social History of Marijuana - Medical, Recreational, and Scientific
    • By: Martin A. Lee
    • Narrated by: Nick Podehl
    • Length: 21 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 495 ratings
    • Martin A. Lee traces the dramatic social history of marijuana, from its origins to its emergence in the 1960s as a defining force in a culture war that has never ceased....

    $38.00 or free with 30-day trial

    • 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 187 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....

    $13.75 or free with 30-day trial

    • Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father
    • By: Stephen Fried
    • Narrated by: John H. Mayer
    • Length: 22 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 256 ratings
    • By the time he was 30, Dr. Benjamin Rush had signed the Declaration of Independence, edited Common Sense, toured Europe as Benjamin Franklin’s protégé, and become John Adams’s confidant, and was soon to be appointed Washington’s surgeon general....

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    • The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims
    • By: Jennifer Vanderbes
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Vanderbes
    • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • A riveting account of the most notorious drug of the twentieth century and the never-before-told story of its American survivors....

    $20.25 or free with 30-day trial

    • 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 39 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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    • An Intimate Journey Into America's Mental Health Crisis
    • By: Kenneth Paul Rosenberg
    • Narrated by: Kenneth Paul Rosenberg
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • A psychiatrist and award-winning documentarian sheds light on the mental-healthcare crisis in the United States....

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    • How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become America’s First Indian Doctor
    • By: Joe Starita
    • Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
    • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • On March 14, 1889, Susan La Flesche received her medical degree - becoming the first Native American doctor in US history....

    $17.16 or free with 30-day trial

    • By: Elizabeth Brown Pryor
    • Narrated by: Sheri Leigh Horn
    • Length: 19 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Widely known today as the "Angel of the Battlefield", Clara Barton's personal life has always been shrouded in mystery. In Clara Barton, Professional Angel, Elizabeth Brown Pryor presents a biography of Barton that strips away the heroic exterior....

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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 16 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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    • The Founding Father Who Healed a Wounded Nation
    • By: Harlow Giles Unger
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 124 ratings
    • A revealing biography of Dr. Benjamin Rush - fiery signer of the Declaration of Independence, prominent physician, ardent politician, zealous social reformer, passionate humanitarian, and dedicated educator....

    $25.19 or free with 30-day trial

    • Women Physicians of the Old West
    • By: Chris Enss
    • Narrated by: Janet Metzger
    • Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • "No women need apply." These four discouraging words of admonition often greeted female physicians looking for jobs in the frontier-era West. Nevertheless dozens of highly trained women headed West....

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    • Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio
    • By: Jeffrey Kluger
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 247 ratings
    • Salk became a cultural hero and icon for a whole generation....

    $18.91 or free with 30-day trial

    • Doctor Henry Porter and Custer's Seventh Cavalry
    • By: Joan Nabseth Stevenson
    • Narrated by: Tyler Edmunds
    • Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 01-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Of the three surgeons who accompanied Custer's Seventh Cavalry on June 25, 1876, only the youngest, 28-year-old Henry Porter, survived that day's ordeal....

    $19.95 or free with 30-day trial

    • A History of Race & Disease
    • By: Arleen Marcia Tuchman
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Who is considered most at risk for diabetes, and why? In this thorough, engaging book, historian Arleen Tuchman examines and critiques how these questions have been answered by both the public and medical communities for over a century in the United States....

    $17.19 or free with 30-day trial