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  • Vital Organs cover art

    • Vital Organs

    • By: Suzie Edge
    • Narrated by: Suzie Edge
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 28-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 133 ratings

    • A journey through history's most famous limbs, organs, and appendages, from TikTok medical historian Dr Suzie Edge....

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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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    • 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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    • 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 104 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 289 ratings
    • An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem....

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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 38 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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    • 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 out of 5 stars 8 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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    • And the Band Played On

    • Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
    • By: Randy Shilts
    • Narrated by: Victor Bevine
    • Length: 31 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 161 ratings
    • Upon it's first publication 20 years ago, And The Band Played On was quickly recognized as a masterpiece of investigatve reporting....

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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 62 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 Year the World Went Mad

    • By: Mark Woolhouse
    • Narrated by: Mark Elstob
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 24-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings

    • In this astonishing book, Mark Woolhouse recounts the history of the COVID-19 pandemic through the eyes of a scientist at the very centre of the action....

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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 Man Who Touched His Own Heart

    • True Tales of Science, Surgery, and Mystery
    • By: Rob Dunn
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 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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    • The History of Psychedelics

    • By: Erika Dyck, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Erika Dyck
    • Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • Mescaline, LSD, and psilocybin mushrooms. There’s been a lot of discussion in the medical world lately about the potential benefits of these and other drugs for certain medical conditions, such as anxiety and depression....

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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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    • Virus Hunt

    • The Search for the Origin of HIV
    • By: Dorothy H. Crawford
    • Narrated by: Alice Gilmour
    • Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The hunt for the origin of the AIDS virus began over 20 years ago. It was a journey that went around the world and involved painstaking research to unravel how, when, and where the virus first infected humans....

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