Public Health History

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    • My Fight at the Trump White House to Stop COVID from Destroying America
    • By: Scott W. Atlas MD
    • Narrated by: Chris Abell
    • Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,086 ratings
    • Millions of people who trust Dr. Atlas will want to listen to this dramatic account of what really went on behind the scenes in the White House during the greatest public health crisis of the 21st century....

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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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    • By: Leon Neyfakh, Prologue Projects
    • Narrated by: Leon Neyfakh, Arielle Pardes
    • Series: Backfired
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 385 ratings
    • Backfired is the latest podcast from Prologue Projects, the award-winning team behind Slow Burn, Fiasco, and Think Twice: Michael Jackson. Backfired is a show about the business of unintended consequences—what happens when solving one problem inadvertently leads to a host of new ones?

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    • A True Story
    • By: Richard Preston
    • Narrated by: James Naughton
    • Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-02
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 265 ratings
    • The first major bioterror event in the United States - the anthrax attacks in October 2001 - was a clarion call for scientists who work with “hot” agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons....

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    • A True Story
    • By: Richard Preston
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,361 ratings
    • The first major bioterror event in the United States - the anthrax attacks in October 2001 - was a clarion call for scientists who work with "hot" agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Rodolfo Saracci
    • Narrated by: Paul Hecht
    • Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Dr. Rodolfo Saracci provides a wealth of information on this key field, dispelling some of the myths surrounding the study of epidemiology, and explaining what epidemiology is and how vital it is to the discovery, control, and prevention of disease in world populations....

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    • When Words Make You Sick
    • By: Michael H. Bernstein Ph.D., Charlotte Blease Ph.D.
    • Narrated by: Jeff Zinn
    • Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Can beliefs make you sick? Consider "The June Bug" incident from a US textile factory in the early 1960s. Many employees began to feel dizzy, had an upset stomach, and vomited. Some were even hospitalized. The illness was attributed to a mysterious bug biting workers.

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    • Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
    • By: Paul A. Offit MD
    • Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
    • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,656 ratings
    • History is filled with brilliant ideas that gave rise to disaster, and this book explores the most fascinating - and significant - missteps....

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    • An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic
    • By: Barry Meier
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 336 ratings
    • Between 1999 and 2017, an estimated 250,000 Americans died from overdoses involving prescription painkillers, a plague ignited by Purdue Pharma’s aggressive marketing of OxyContin....

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    • The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry
    • By: Paul Starr
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 24 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 114 ratings
    • Considered the definitive history of the American healthcare system, The Social Transformation of American Medicine examines how the roles of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs have evolved over the last two and a half centuries....

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    • The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America
    • By: Mark A. Bradley
    • Narrated by: Perry Daniels
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Blood Runs Coal sheds light on the far-reaching effects of industrial and socioeconomic change that unfold across America to this day....

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    • Life, Death, and Politics at Chicago’s Public Hospital
    • By: David A. Ansell MD
    • Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
    • Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 375 ratings
    • The amazing tale of County is the story of one of America's oldest and most unusual urban hospitals....

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    • How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World
    • By: Geoff Mulgan
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • A new field of collective intelligence has emerged in the last few years, prompted by a wave of digital technologies that make it possible for organizations and societies to think at large scale....

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    • How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future
    • By: Perri Klass
    • Narrated by: Randye Kaye
    • Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The beating back of infant and child mortality is one of our greatest human achievements. Author Perri Klass pays tribute to groundbreaking women doctors, nurses, public health advocates, and scientists who brought new approaches about sanitation and vaccination to families....

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    • The Politics of Catastrophe
    • By: Niall Ferguson
    • Narrated by: Niall Ferguson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 482 ratings
    • Setting the annus horribilis of 2020 in historical perspective, Niall Ferguson explains why we are getting worse, not better, at handling disasters....

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    • The Hidden Science of Fighting Outbreaks
    • By: Caitlin Rivers PhD
    • Narrated by: Jaime Lamchick
    • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Caitlin Rivers illuminates the role of epidemiology in all our lives, weaving together stories of triumph and tragedy, with a boots-on-the-ground perspective on how we can avert the next public health crisis.

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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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