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Schnitt!
- Die ganze Geschichte der Chirurgie erzählt in 28 Operationen
- By: Arnold van de Laar, Bärbel Jänicke - Übersetzer
- Narrated by: Stefan Barth
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
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Ein einzigartiges Hörbuch, das Sie nicht gleichgültig lassen wird! Von den dunklen Anfangszeiten der Chirurgie, als noch ohne Betäubung amputiert wurde, über königliche Operationen bis zu den heutigen High-Tech-OPs – der Chirurg Arnold van de Laar beschreibt in seinem Hörbuch so packend wie allgemeinverständlich die Geschichte der Chirurgie, und gibt einen spannenden Einblick in sein Fach. In 28 Kapiteln erzählt van de Laar anhand berühmter Operationen, was genau im Operationsaal geschieht.
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Schnitt!
- Die ganze Geschichte der Chirurgie erzählt in 28 Operationen
- Narrated by: Stefan Barth
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 26-04-22
- Language: German
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The Intermediaries
- A Weimar Story
- By: Brandy Schillace
- Narrated by: Daniela Acitelli
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
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Through its unforgettable characters and immersive storytelling, The Intermediaries charts the relationships between nascent sexual science, queer civil rights, and the fight against fascism. It tells riveting stories of LGBTQ pioneers and offers a cautionary tale in the face of today's oppressive anti-trans legislation.
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Love the content but not narration
- By Melanie on 06-09-25
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The Intermediaries
- A Weimar Story
- Narrated by: Daniela Acitelli
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 03-06-25
- Language: English
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End of Epidemics
- The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It
- By: Dr. Jonathon D. Quick, Bronwyn Fryer
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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In The End of Epidemics, leading public health authority Dr Jonathan D. Quick tells the stories of the heroes, past and present, who’ve succeeded in their fights to stop the spread of illness and death. He explains the science and the politics of combating epidemics. And he provides a detailed seven-part plan showing exactly how world leaders, health professionals, the business community, media and ordinary citizens can work together to prevent epidemics, saving millions of lives.
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Must read during Covid-19 !
- By Inna on 17-05-20
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End of Epidemics
- The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 05-07-18
- Language: English
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The Excellent Doctor Blackwell
- The Life of the First Woman Physician
- By: Julia Boyd
- Narrated by: Corrie James
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
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When British-born Elizabeth Blackwell earned her medical degree in America in 1849, there was an international outcry. Few at the time would have disagreed with the actress Fanny Kemble's remark - "What, trust a woman doctor - never!"
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Elizabeth Blackwell Doctor
- By Amazon Customer on 15-02-23
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The Excellent Doctor Blackwell
- The Life of the First Woman Physician
- Narrated by: Corrie James
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 25-01-22
- Language: English
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Symptoms of Unknown Origin
- A Medical Odyssey
- By: Clifton K. Meador MD
- Narrated by: Sonny Dufault
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
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For years after graduating from medical school, Dr. Clifton K. Meador assumed that symptoms of the body, when obviously not imaginary, indicate a disease of the body - something to be treated with drugs, surgery, or other traditional means. But, over several decades, as he saw patients with clear symptoms but no discernible disease, he concluded that his own assumptions were too narrow and, indeed, that the underlying basis for much of clinical medicine was severely limited.
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Symptoms of Unknown Origin
- A Medical Odyssey
- Narrated by: Sonny Dufault
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 21-02-20
- Language: English
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Foresaken
- A History of Circumcision
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: Bill Jacobson
- Length: 37 mins
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You were told it was normal. You were told it was cleaner, safer, even necessary. But you were never told the whole story. Foresaken is a calm, surgical walk through the real history of circumcision — from its ancient origins to its rise as a modern medical routine, and the billion-dollar industry that grew silently behind it. These are the facts — anatomical, historical, and cultural — laid bare. This is the first cut most people never questioned. Now it’s time to understand what was lost — and why it matters. Listen to it. Then decide for yourself.
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Foresaken
- A History of Circumcision
- Narrated by: Bill Jacobson
- Length: 37 mins
- Release date: 25-08-25
- Language: English
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These Vital Signs
- A Doctor's Notes on Life and Loss in Tweets
- By: Sayed Tabatabai
- Narrated by: Christopher Salazar
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
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A doctor reflects on his profession and his experience with patients in this brilliant essay collection that expands on his wildly popular Twitter poems. In medicine, every patient presents with a story. “Once upon a time I was well, and then . . . ” These patient narratives are the beating...
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Beautiful
- By diziet on 11-06-23
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These Vital Signs
- A Doctor's Notes on Life and Loss in Tweets
- Narrated by: Christopher Salazar
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 16-05-23
- Language: English
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The Wisdom of Plagues
- Lessons from 25 Years of Covering Pandemics
- By: Donald G. McNeil Jr.
- Narrated by: Donald G. McNeil Jr.
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
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Award-winning New York Times reporter Donald G. McNeil, Jr. reflects on twenty-five years of covering pandemics—how governments react to them, how the media covers them, how they are exploited, and what we can do to prepare for the next one—in this “fascinating, ferocious fusillade against...
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More than a book on plagues
- By Anonymous on 03-01-26
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The Wisdom of Plagues
- Lessons from 25 Years of Covering Pandemics
- Narrated by: Donald G. McNeil Jr.
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 09-01-24
- Language: English
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Cold War Resistance
- The International Struggle over Antibiotics
- By: Marc Landas
- Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
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In June 1941, a pair of British scientists boarded a plane for America with World War II raging all around them. They carried a precious commodity - penicillin - and the knowledge that it would change history. Author Marc Landas uncovers the dark history behind the discovery, production, and distribution of penicillin and other antibiotics.
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Cold War Resistance
- The International Struggle over Antibiotics
- Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 19-01-21
- Language: English
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Inside the Orphan Drug Revolution
- The Promise of Patient-Centered Biotechnology
- By: James A. Geraghty
- Narrated by: Scott Wallace
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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Jim Geraghty has been a passionate participant in the orphan drug revolution since its inception―a leader in the field as a strategy consultant, biotechnology executive, and venture entrepreneur. His book is in part a history, with eyewitness accounts of advances as they occurred and portraits of the pioneering scientists and physicians, tireless activists, and visionary business leaders who made the revolution happen. And it tells deeply personal stories of patients and parents willing to risk untried new therapies.
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Inside the Orphan Drug Revolution
- The Promise of Patient-Centered Biotechnology
- Narrated by: Scott Wallace
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 02-05-23
- Language: English
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Rumbles
- A Curious History of the Gut
- By: Elsa Richardson
- Narrated by: Zehra Jane Naqvi
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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The stomach is notoriously outspoken. It growls, gurgles, and grumbles while other organs remain silent. For centuries humans have puzzled over this rowdy organ, deliberating on the extent of its influence over cognition, mental wellbeing, and emotions, and wondering how the gut became so central to our sense of self. Traveling from ancient Greece to Victorian England, eighteenth-century France to modern America, historian Elsa Richardson leads us on a tour of the gut, exploring all the ways that we have imagined, theorized, and probed the mysteries of the gastroenterological system.
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Rumbles
- A Curious History of the Gut
- Narrated by: Zehra Jane Naqvi
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 29-10-24
- Language: English
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From Poison Arrows to Prozac
- How Deadly Toxins Changed Our Lives Forever
- By: Stanley Feldman
- Narrated by: Lynsey Frost
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
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In the 16th century, when explorers travelled deep into the jungles of South America in search of gold and spices, they brought back many colourful tales of their adventures. None of these tales was more astonishing, or caused more concern, than that of the mystical properties of the substance with which the natives anointed their darts and arrows.
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From Poison Arrows to Prozac
- How Deadly Toxins Changed Our Lives Forever
- Narrated by: Lynsey Frost
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 10-10-13
- Language: English
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Global Censorship of Health Information
- By: Jonathan W. Emord
- Narrated by: Todd Eflin
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
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In this book, veteran constitutional lawyer Jonathan W. Emord explains the intellectual origins of freedom of speech from the Age of Enlightenment to the founding of the American republic. Today, government censorship of health information worldwide relies on the same mechanisms of prior restraint that were used in Europe from the 16th to the 18th centuries.
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Global Censorship of Health Information
- Narrated by: Todd Eflin
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 23-10-20
- Language: English
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Life and Death Decisions
- Fighting to save lives from disaster, disease and destruction
- By: Dr Lachlan McIver
- Narrated by: Daniel Fletcher
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
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*** 'Just brilliant. The book of the decade.' - Professor Tim Flannery, Former Australian of the Year 'An honest, powerful and riveting book that demonstrates Lachlan's courage in the face of the hardest of circumstances.' - Levison Wood, Award-winning author, explorer and photographer 'Wow. A...
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Life and Death Decisions
- Fighting to save lives from disaster, disease and destruction
- Narrated by: Daniel Fletcher
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 01-09-22
- Language: English
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Magie der Emotionen
- Vom bekannten Illusionisten Derren Brown
- By: Derren Brown
- Narrated by: Asad Schwarz
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
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Unsere Emotionen spielen eine mächtige Rolle in allem, was wir denken, sagen und tun. In dieser Boot Camp-Serie erkundet Derren Brown gemeinsam mit führenden Verhaltenswissenschaftlern und verschiedenen Experten, wie wir diese kraftvollen und geheimnisvollen Kräfte kontrollieren können, die oft unser rationales Denken übernehmen und uns völlig in die Irre führen. Durch die Steigerung unserer emotionalen Intelligenz können wir unser Leben in jeder erdenklichen Weise verbessern.
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Magie der Emotionen
- Vom bekannten Illusionisten Derren Brown
- Narrated by: Asad Schwarz
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 05-11-25
- Language: German
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The History of Medicine
- By: Mark Jackson
- Narrated by: Tom Alexander
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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As scientists confidently look forward to average life expectancies hitting 100+ years in some Western societies, it’s easy to forget how precarious our grasp on good health has been. It is a struggle no better demonstrated than by the myriad and extraordinary measures that humans have gone to – as diverse as animal sacrifice to stem cell transplants – in their quest to stave off death and disease. Acclaimed historian Mark Jackson takes a fresh global view of mankind’s great battle, exploring both Western and Eastern traditions.
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The History of Medicine
- Narrated by: Tom Alexander
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 01-03-24
- Language: English
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Germs, Genes, & Civilization: How Epidemics Shaped Who We Are Today
- By: David P. Clark
- Narrated by: Summer McStravick
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
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Again and again, microbes have shaped our health, our genetics, our history, our culture, our politics, even our religion and ethics. This book reveals much that scientists and cultural historians have learned about the pervasive interconnections between infectious microbes and humans. It also considers what our ongoing fundamental relationship with infectious microbes might mean for the future of the human species.
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Great content, shame about the voice...
- By Steven on 14-01-13
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Germs, Genes, & Civilization: How Epidemics Shaped Who We Are Today
- Narrated by: Summer McStravick
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 09-12-11
- Language: English
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Wunder wirken Wunder: Wie Medizin und Magie uns heilen
- By: Eckart von Hirschhausen
- Narrated by: Eckart von Hirschhausen
- Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
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Er ist vielleicht der bekannteste Arzt Deutschlands. In seinem neuen Buch erzählt Eckart von Hirschhausen jedoch, was Sie wahrscheinlich bisher nicht über ihn wussten. Lange bevor er Medizin studierte, widmete er sich der Zauberei. Von der Jugendgruppe des Magischen Zirkels bis zur deutschen Meisterschaft vertiefte er sich in die Kunst der Täuschung. Somit kann er wie kein anderer beschreiben, wie viel magisches Denken bis heute in uns steckt.
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Wunder wirken Wunder: Wie Medizin und Magie uns heilen
- Narrated by: Eckart von Hirschhausen
- Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
- Release date: 28-10-16
- Language: German
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Heart in the Right Place
- A Memoir
- By: Carolyn Jourdan
- Narrated by: Kate Forbes
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
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Carolyn Jourdan spent many years as a congressional lawyer in Washington, D.C. Then she was called home to fill in for her mother as receptionist at her father's rural Tennessee doctor's office - assured it would only be for a few days.
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Heart in the Right Place
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Kate Forbes
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 24-03-08
- Language: English
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Women in Medicine
- Stories from the Girls in White
- By: Anne Walling
- Narrated by: Christine Williams
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
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In telling the history of women in medicine, the pioneers are rightly remembered and celebrated in books, articles, memorials, awards, names of buildings, and organizations. In contrast, the generation who began the transition from minority status to the current numerical equity are seldom...
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Women in Medicine
- Stories from the Girls in White
- Narrated by: Christine Williams
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 31-03-26
- Language: English
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