Medical America History

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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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    • 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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    • 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 115 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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    • 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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    • 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 31 ratings
    • A riveting account of the most notorious drug of the twentieth century and the never-before-told story of its American survivors....

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    • How America’s Obsession Shaped Me...and You
    • By: Leslie Lehr
    • Narrated by: Leslie Lehr
    • Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 190 ratings
    • A Boob’s Life explores the surprising truth about women’s most popular body part with vulnerable, witty frankness and true nuggets of American culture that will resonate with everyone who has breasts - or loves them....

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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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    • 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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    • 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 248 ratings
    • Salk became a cultural hero and icon for a whole generation....

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    • 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 5 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....

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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 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 492 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....

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    • 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 243 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 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 121 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....

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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 37 ratings
    • A psychiatrist and award-winning documentarian sheds light on the mental-healthcare crisis in the United States....

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    • America’s Untested, Unregulated Medical Device Industry and One Man’s Battle to Survive It
    • By: Jeanne Lenzer
    • Narrated by: Jeanne Lenzer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • The majority of high-risk implanted medical devices have never undergone a single clinical trial. The FDA lets device manufacturers decide whether to report serious complications or deaths....

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    • 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 20 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....

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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 65 ratings
    • On March 14, 1889, Susan La Flesche received her medical degree - becoming the first Native American doctor in US history....

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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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