Social Medicine

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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 116 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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    • Simple Meditation Exercises for Health, Well-Being, and Enlightenment (Buddhayana Series, VII)
    • By: Tulku Thondup, Daniel Goleman - foreword
    • Narrated by: Elijah Alexander
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 219 ratings
    • This book is an invitation to awaken the healing power of mind through inspiring images and sounds, mindful movements, and positive perceptions....

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    • A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
    • By: Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,066 ratings
    • What won't we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth? Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine was dosed like Viagra....

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    • Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism
    • By: Dr. Jen Gunter
    • Narrated by: Jen Gunter
    • Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 307 ratings
    • The only thing predictable about menopause is its unpredictability. Factor in widespread misinformation, a lack of research, and the culture of shame around women's bodies, and it's no wonder women are unsure what to expect during the menopause transition and beyond....

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    • Hope vs. Reality in the Era of Weight-Loss Drugs
    • By: Scaachi Koul
    • Narrated by: Scaachi Koul
    • Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 333 ratings
    • The Thin Line looks at the promise and the peril of GLP-1s today, and explores what will happen in the near future with the democratization of these breakthrough drugs.

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    • The Harm of Coming into Existence
    • By: David Benatar
    • Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Most people believe that they were either benefited or at least not harmed by being brought into existence....

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    • How Trust and Teamwork Drive Organizational Excellence
    • By: Thomas H. Lee MD
    • Narrated by: Tim Morgan
    • Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-25
    • Language: English
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    • Written by Thomas Lee, Chief Medical Officer at Press Ganey, Social Capital in Healthcare describes a new and powerful framework for improving healthcare.

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    • The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
    • By: John Green
    • Narrated by: John Green
    • Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,306 ratings
    • John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease.

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    • How a Drink Transformed My Life
    • By: Duff McDonald
    • Narrated by: Duff McDonald
    • Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 223 ratings
    • Journalist and author Duff McDonald takes us inside the biological, physiological, and spiritual benefits of this beloved beverage, one of a remarkable category of liquids known as “living drinks”....

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    • How the Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey Viruses Are Linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, the JFK Assassination, and Emerging Global Epidemics
    • By: Edward T. Haslam
    • Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 808 ratings
    • The 1964 murder of a nationally known cancer researcher sets the stage for this gripping exposé of medical professionals enmeshed in covert government operations....

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    • The Liberating Practice of Insight Meditation
    • By: Larry Rosenberg, David Guy, Jon Kabat-Zinn - foreward
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 509 ratings
    • Using the insights gained from his many years of practice and teaching, Larry Rosenberg makes insight meditation practice accessible to modern practitioners....

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    • How to Unlock Your Seven Energy Centers for Healing, Happiness, and Transformation
    • By: Susan Shumsky DD
    • Narrated by: Christina Delaine
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-26-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • The Big Book of Chakras and Chakra Healing is perfect for novices and experienced practitioners alike and will lead you on a journey of discovery, balance, and enlightenment....

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    • Firsthand Accounts of Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program
    • By: Hal Gold, Yuma Totani - foreword
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 08-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 301 ratings
    • Some of the cruelest deeds of Japan's war in Asia did not occur on the battlefield, but in quiet, antiseptic medical wards in obscure parts of China. Far from front lines and prying eyes, Japanese doctors and their assistants subjected human guinea pigs to gruesome medical experiments....

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    • By: Alison Kafer
    • Narrated by: Sarah Beth Pfeifer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Alison Kafer imagines a different future for disability and disabled bodies. Challenging the ways in which ideas about the future and time have been deployed in the service of compulsory able-bodiedness and able-mindedness, Kafer rejects the idea of disability as a predetermined limit....

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    • The Life and Teachings of a Native American Shaman
    • By: Bear Heart, Molly Larkin - contributor
    • Narrated by: Larry Winters
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 522 ratings
    • With eloquent simplicity, one of the world's last Native American medicine men demonstrates how traditional tribal wisdom can help us maintain spiritual and physical health in today's world....

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    • Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and the Social Determinants of Health
    • By: Donald A. Barr MD PhD
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • The health-care system in the United States has been called the best in the world. Yet wide disparities persist between social groups, and many Americans suffer from poorer health than people in other developed countries....

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    • Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
    • By: Deborah Blum
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,600 ratings
    • Deborah Blum, writing with the high style and skill for suspense that is characteristic of the very best mystery fiction, shares the untold story of how poison rocked Jazz Age New York City....

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    • By: Suzanne Humphries, Roman Bystrianyk
    • Narrated by: Tyler Behnke
    • Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 503 ratings
    • Today, we are told that medical interventions increased our lifespan and single-handedly prevented masses of deaths. But is this really true? Dissolving Illusions details facts and figures from long-overlooked medical journals, books, newspapers, and other sources....

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    • The Art of Chinese Self-Healing
    • By: Katie Brindle
    • Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
    • Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • The concept of self-care is, in fact, thousands of years old. This buzzword is rooted in a 2,500-year old Chinese philosophy....

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