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  • Ten Drugs cover art

    • Ten Drugs

    • How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
    • By: Thomas Hager
    • Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
    • Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 474 ratings

    • Beginning with opium, the “joy plant,” which has been used for 10,000 years, Thomas Hager tells a captivating story of medicine. His subjects include the largely forgotten female pioneer who introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain, the infamous knockout drops, and much more....

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    • Grief Works

    • Stories of Life, Death and Surviving
    • By: Julia Samuel
    • Narrated by: Julia Samuel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 178 ratings
    • Grief Works is a compassionate guide that will inform and engage anyone who is grieving and provide clear advice for those seeking to comfort the bereaved....

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    • Blood and Guts

    • A History of Surgery
    • By: Richard Hollingham
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 28-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 34 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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    • Japan's Infamous Unit 731

    • 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: 18-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 103 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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    • Stiff

    • The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    • By: Mary Roach
    • Narrated by: Shelly Frasier
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 26-02-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 288 ratings
    • An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem....

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    • Viruses, Plagues, and History

    • Past, Present, and Future
    • By: Michael B. A. Oldstone
    • Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
    • Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 13-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings

    • The story of viruses and humanity is a story of fear and ignorance, of grief and heartbreak, and of great bravery and sacrifice. Michael Oldstone tells all these stories as he illuminates the history of the devastating diseases that have tormented humanity....

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    • The Great Mortality

    • An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
    • By: John Kelly
    • Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
    • Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 20-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings

    • The Great Plague is one of the most compelling events in human history—even more so now, when the notion of plague has never loomed larger as a contemporary public concern....

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    • The Truth About Covid-19

    • Exposing the Great Reset, Lockdowns, Vaccine Passports, and the New Normal
    • By: Dr. Joseph Mercola, Ronnie Cummins
    • Narrated by: Nolan Chase
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 29-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 207 ratings

    • Since early 2020, the world has experienced a series of catastrophic events - a global pandemic caused by a so-called novel coronavirus; international lockdowns and border closings causing widespread business closures, economic collapse, and massive unemployment....

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    • Shooting Up

    • A Short History of Drugs and War
    • By: Lukasz Kamienski
    • Narrated by: Ricco Fajardo
    • Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Shooting Up: A Short History of Drugs and War examines how intoxicants have been put to the service of states, empires, and their armies throughout history....

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    • What Doctors Feel

    • How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine
    • By: Danielle Ofri MD
    • Narrated by: Andi Arndt
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 29-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • While much has been written about the minds and methods of the medical professionals who save our lives, precious little has been said about their emotions. Physicians are assumed to be objective, rational beings, easily able to detach....

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    • Notes on Nursing

    • What It Is and What It Isn't
    • By: Florence Nightingale
    • Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
    • Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 30-09-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • These outspoken writings by the founder of modern nursing record fundamentals in the needs of the sick that must be provided in all nursing....

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    • Plagues upon the Earth

    • Disease and the Course of Human History
    • By: Kyle Harper
    • Narrated by: Tim Fannon
    • Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 15-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 22 ratings

    • Plagues upon the Earth tells the story of how pathogenic microbes have been an intimate part of human history from the beginning - and how our deadliest germs and biggest pandemics are the product of our success as a species....

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    • The Fate of Rome

    • Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire
    • By: Kyle Harper
    • Narrated by: Andrew Garman
    • Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 27-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman Empire....

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    • The End of Genetics

    • Designing Humanity's DNA
    • By: David B. Goldstein
    • Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
    • Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • Since 2010, it has been possible to determine a person's genetic makeup in a matter of days at an accessible cost for many millions of people....

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    • Asperger's Children

    • The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
    • By: Edith Sheffer
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings

    • In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, aiming to treat those children he deemed capable of participating fully in society. Depicted as a compassionate researcher, Asperger was in fact deeply influenced by Nazi psychiatry....

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    • Dr. Mary's Monkey

    • 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: 17-09-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 53 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 Oldest Cure in the World

    • Adventures in the Art and Science of Fasting
    • By: Steve Hendricks
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings

    • A journalist takes listeners into the science and history of intermittent fasting, an ancient practice in the middle of a red-hot resurgence, exploring the body's power to heal itself....

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