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  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Audiobook By Rebecca Skloot cover art

    • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

    • By: Rebecca Skloot
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16,696 ratings

    • Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....

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  • The Song of the Cell Audiobook By Siddhartha Mukherjee cover art

    • The Song of the Cell

    • An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
    • By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
    • Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Length: 16 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 843 ratings

    • From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene, a #1 New York Times bestseller, comes his most spectacular book yet, an exploration of medicine and our radical new ability to manipulate cells....

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  • The Emperor of All Maladies Audiobook By Siddhartha Mukherjee cover art

    • The Emperor of All Maladies

    • A Biography of Cancer
    • By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 22 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4,689 ratings
    • The Emperor of All Maladies reveals the many faces of an iconic, shape-shifting disease that is the defining plague of our generation....

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  • Stiff Audiobook By Mary Roach cover art

    • Stiff

    • The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    • By: Mary Roach
    • Narrated by: Shelly Frasier
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 02-26-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,339 ratings
    • An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem....

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  • Quackery Audiobook By Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen cover art

    • Quackery

    • 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 973 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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  • The Butchering Art Audiobook By Lindsey Fitzharris cover art

    • The Butchering Art

    • 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 3,369 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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  • Destiny of the Republic Audiobook By Candice Millard cover art

    • Destiny of the Republic

    • A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
    • By: Candice Millard
    • Narrated by: Paul Michael
    • Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7,529 ratings
    • James A. Garfield may have been the most extraordinary man ever elected president....

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  • The Radium Girls Audiobook By Kate Moore cover art

    • The Radium Girls

    • The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
    • By: Kate Moore
    • Narrated by: Angela Brazil
    • Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,562 ratings
    • As a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, painting watches, clocks, and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium....

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  • The Gene Audiobook By Siddhartha Mukherjee cover art

    • The Gene

    • An Intimate History
    • By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
    • Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Length: 19 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,893 ratings
    • Mukherjee animates the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices....

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  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Audiobook By Thomas S. Kuhn cover art

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  • A Taste for Poison Audiobook By Neil Bradbury Ph.D. cover art

    • A Taste for Poison

    • Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
    • By: Neil Bradbury Ph.D.
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 184 ratings

    • Drawn from historical records and current news headlines, A Taste for Poison weaves together the tales of spurned lovers, shady scientists, medical professionals, and political assassins to show how the precise systems of the body can be impaired to lethal effect....

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  • Ten Drugs Audiobook By Thomas Hager 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: 03-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,890 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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  • The Great Influenza Audiobook By John M. Barry cover art

    • The Great Influenza

    • The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
    • By: John M. Barry
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 01-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,854 ratings

    • In the winter of 1918, at the height of World War I, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide....

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  • The Social Transformation of American Medicine Audiobook By Paul Starr cover art

    • The Social Transformation of American Medicine

    • 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 114 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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  • ShadowMan Audiobook By Ron Franscell cover art

    • ShadowMan

    • An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling
    • By: Ron Franscell
    • Narrated by: Patty Nieman, Chris Berger
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 205 ratings

    • ShadowMan is the pulse-pounding account of the first time in history that the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit created a psychological profile to catch a serial killer....

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  • Get Well Soon Audiobook By Jennifer Wright cover art

    • Get Well Soon

    • History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
    • By: Jennifer Wright
    • Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,747 ratings
    • Throughout time, humans have been terrified and fascinated by the diseases history and circumstance have dropped on them....

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  • Complications Audiobook By Atul Gawande cover art

    • Complications

    • A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
    • By: Atul Gawande
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 439 ratings

    • A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine....

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  • Better Audiobook By Atul Gawande cover art

    • Better

    • A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
    • By: Atul Gawande
    • Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
    • Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,137 ratings
    • Atul Gawande explores how doctors strive for best performance in the face of obstacles that sometimes seem insurmountable - in Boston, India, Iraq, and in malpractice courtrooms....

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  • Medical Apartheid Audiobook By Harriet A. Washington cover art

    • Medical Apartheid

    • The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
    • By: Harriet A. Washington
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 19 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,246 ratings
    • Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans....

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  • The Mosquito Audiobook By Timothy C. Winegard cover art

    • The Mosquito

    • A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
    • By: Timothy C. Winegard
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Length: 19 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 527 ratings

    • A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity’s fate....

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