Surgery History

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    • A History of Modern Medicine: From the Renaissance to the Implant Revolution
    • By: David Schneider MD
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 23 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • Written by an author with plenty of experience holding a scalpel, Dr. David Schneider's in-depth biography is an encompassing history of the practice that has leapt forward over the centuries from the dangerous guesswork of ancient Greek physicians....

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    • The History of Surgery
    • By: Ira Rutkow MD
    • Narrated by: Gibson Frazier
    • Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • From a renowned surgeon and historian with five decades of experience comes a remarkable history of surgery’s development—spanning the Stone Age to the present day—blending meticulous medical studies with lively and skillful storytelling....

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    • A History of Surgery
    • By: Richard Hollingham
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making limb transplants, face transplants, and a host of other previously undreamed-of operations possible. But getting here has not been a simple story of medical progress....

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    • Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years
    • By: Michael J. Collins MD
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 513 ratings
    • When Michael Collins decided to become a surgeon, he was totally unprepared for the chaotic life of a resident at a major hospital....

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    • Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery
    • By: Henry Marsh
    • Narrated by: Jim Barclay
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 05-26-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,601 ratings
    • With compassion and candor, leading neurosurgeon Henry Marsh reveals the fierce joy of operating....

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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 272 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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    • A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable Operations
    • By: Arnold van de Laar, Andy Brown - translator
    • Narrated by: Rich Keeble
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 260 ratings
    • Surgeon Arnold van de Laar uses his own experience and expertise to tell this engrossing history of surgery through 28 famous operations - from Louis XIV and Einstein to JFK and Houdini....

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    • The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery
    • By: Paul Craddock
    • Narrated by: Paul Craddock
    • Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Paul Craddock's Spare Parts offers an original look at the history of medicine itself through the rich, compelling, and delightfully macabre story of transplant surgery from ancient times to the present day....

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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 230 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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    • Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
    • By: Lindsey Fitzharris
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,364 ratings
    • In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of 19th-century surgery on the eve of profound transformation....

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    • How to Get Things Right
    • By: Atul Gawande
    • Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
    • Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 12-22-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7,482 ratings
    • The New York Times best-selling author of Better and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist ....

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    • A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
    • By: Atul Gawande
    • Narrated by: William David Griffith
    • Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,905 ratings
    • Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate...

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    • The True Story of the Maverick Who Pioneered Open Heart Surgery
    • By: G. Wayne Miller
    • Narrated by: Patrick Cullen
    • Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 284 ratings
    • G. Wayne Miller has dramatically and meticulously reconstructed an amazing true story...

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    • A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
    • By: Lindsey Fitzharris
    • Narrated by: Daniel Gillies
    • Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 311 ratings
    • Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true story of a visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War’s injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgery.

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    • Surgery on the Front Line
    • By: David Nott
    • Narrated by: David Nott
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • For more than 25 years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as a general and vascular surgeon with the NHS to volunteer in some of the world’s most dangerous war zones....

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    • Medical School Crash Course
    • By: AudioLearn Medical Content Team
    • Narrated by: Bhama Roget
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Written by experts and authorities in the field and professionally narrated for easy listening, this crash course is a valuable tool both during school and when preparing for the USMLE....

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    • Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
    • By: Lindsey Fitzharris
    • Narrated by: Sam Woolf
    • Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • Historian Lindsey Fitzharris re-creates a critical turning point in the history of medicine, when Joseph Lister transformed surgery from a brutal, harrowing practice to a safe, vaunted profession....

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    • True Tales of Science, Surgery, and Mystery
    • By: Rob Dunn
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 118 ratings
    • Thought of as the seat of our soul, then as a mysteriously animated object, the heart is still more a mystery than it is understood....

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    • A Story About Birth and Death and Cardiac Surgery
    • By: Gabriel Brownstein
    • Narrated by: Gabriel Brownstein
    • Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • This absorbing and poignant audiobook is not merely the story of one writer's flawed heart. It is a history of cardiac medicine, a candid personal journey, and a profound reflection on mortality....

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