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    Unnatural Causes

    'An absolutely brilliant book. I really recommend it, I don't often say that' Jeremy Vine, BBC Radio 2

    by Dr Richard Shepherd ...
    Narrated by Dr Richard Shepherd ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 46 min

    Meet the forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd, in the true crime book of the year - brought to you by Penguin.'The dead do not hide the truth and they never lie. Through me the dead can speak . . .'He solves the mysteries of unexplained or sudden death.He has performed over 23,000 autopsies, including investigating some of the most high-profile cases of recent times; the Hungerford Massacre, ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Gene

    An Intimate History

    by Siddhartha Mukherjee ...
    Narrated by Dennis Boutsikaris ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 21 min

    ***Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2016*The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history, from bestselling, prize-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee.**Spanning the globe and several centuries, The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans, that governs our form and function.The story of ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    In Shock

    by Dr Rana Awdish ...
    Narrated by Dr Rana Awdish, Teri Schnaubelt ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 1 min

    Random House presents the audiobook edition of In Shock by Dr Rana Awdish, read by the author and Teri Schnaubelt.At seven months pregnant, intensive care doctor Rana Awdish suffered a catastrophic medical event, haemorrhaging nearly all of her blood volume and losing her unborn first child. She spent months fighting for her life in her own hospital, enduring a series of organ failures and ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Seven Ages of Death

    ‘Every chapter is like a detective story’ Telegraph

    by Dr Richard Shepherd ...
    Narrated by Dr Richard Shepherd ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 25 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.The heart-wrenchingly honest new book about life and death from forensic pathologist and bestselling author of Unnatural Causes, Dr Richard Shepherd.This book is about death, but in it I will take readers on a journey through life...What can death teach us about life?Conducting many thousands of post-mortems has given Dr Richard Sh... ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Selbstoptimierung

    Zwei Originalvorträge

    by Reinhard Ziegler, Dietrich Grönemeyer ...
    Narrated by Reinhard Ziegler, Dietrich Grönemeyer, Reinhard Ziegler, Dietrich Grönemeyer ...
    series O-Ton-Wissenschaft

    Unabridged

    57 min

    1 | Reinhard Ziegler: Anti-Aging – Ein Markt der Illusionen Sendung: 23.09.2001, SWR2, Redaktion: Ralf Caspary Anti-Aging Medizin ist ein Begriff, der misstrauisch macht, meint er doch Medizin gegen das Älterwerden. Dem Altern sind alle Lebewesen vom Anfang der Evolution an unterworfen, damit einher geht eine jeweils durchschnittliche Lebenserwartungen. Die Phasen dieses Prozesses sind bekannt, ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Mercies in Disguise

    A Story of Hope, a Family's Genetic Destiny, and the Science That Rescued Them

    by Gina Kolata ...
    Narrated by Andrea Gallo ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 31 min

    New York Times science reporter Gina Kolata follows a family through genetic illness and one courageous daughter who decides her fate shall no longer be decided by a genetic flaw. The phone rings; the doctor has the results. "Are you ready Amanda?" The two people Amanda Baxley loves the most had begged her not to be tested. But she had to find out. If your family carried a mutated gene that ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    InVerse Medicine

    Poems about things often left unsaid

    by Upreet Dhaliwal ...
    Narrated by Didi ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 8 min

    These are poems about conversations that we'd like to have with ourselves and with others when our bodies and minds are fraying...There's struggle and triumph, loss and humanity within the pages of this eclectic collection of verse.Here's what Readers have to say:"[This] collection brings together the dilemmas doctors and clinicians face through the voices of poetry in a way that is quite ... Read more

    $5.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Still Not Safe

    Patient Safety and the Middle-Managing of American Medicine

    by Robert L. Wears, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe ...
    Narrated by Mike Lenz ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 12 min

    Still Not Safe is the story of the rise of the patient-safety movement-and how an "epidemic" of medical errors was derived from a reality that didn't support such a characterization. Physician Robert Wears and organizational theorist Kathleen Sutcliffe trace the origins of patient safety to the emergence of market trends that challenged the place of doctors in the larger medical ecosystem: the ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Ruby Princess

    by Duncan McNab ...
    Narrated by David Tredinnick ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 23 min

    In the early hours of Thursday 19 March 2020, the luxury cruise liner Ruby Princess docked at Sydney's Circular Quay, the gateway to Australia.Hours later, 2700 passengers disembarked. Yet in the middle of a pandemic sweeping the planet, there were no health checks. Over the next few days, the passengers got some bad news. The COVID-19 virus had infected some on the ship, and it spread rapidly. ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Neurology Rounds with the Maverick

    by Bernard M. Patten MD ...
    Narrated by Gregory V. Diehl ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 49 min

    In Neurology Rounds with the Maverick, clinical neurologist Dr. Bernard M. Patten recounts his most profound, entertaining, and uncommon experiences with patients throughout his 34-year medical career.Learn about the strange case of the teenage girl who got pulled out of class for medical treatment because she couldn’t stop laughing. Then consider the 14-year-old who faked grand mal seizures for ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Wounded Storyteller

    Body, Illness, and Ethics Second Edition

    by Arthur Frank ...
    Narrated by Trevor Thompson ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 19 min

    Since it was first published in 1995, The Wounded Storyteller has occupied a unique place in the body of work on illness. Both the collective portrait of a so-called "remission society" of those who suffer from some type of illness or disability and a cogent analysis of their stories within a larger framework of narrative theory, Arthur W. Frank's book has reached a large and diverse following, ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Mengele And Nazi Doctors During The Third Reich

    Children's Experiments And The Racial Utopia For Opportunity And Careerism

    by Joshua Itzkowitz ...
    Narrated by Jack Stonemason ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 21 min

    The experiments conducted during World War II provide some of the most extreme examples of human rights and ethics breaches the world has seen. There is no benefit in considering the Nazi experiments as “other” or irrelevant. The greatest good that can come from these atrocities is the lessons they have to teach about what plays into and creates a hostile research environment. Before the rise of ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Genetics in the Madhouse

    The Unknown History of Human Heredity

    by Theodore M. Porter ...
    Narrated by Mike Chamberlain ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 1 min

    In the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Almost from the beginning, they pointed to heredity as the most important of these causes. As doctors and state officials steadily lost faith in the capacity of asylum care to stem the terrible increase of insanity, they began emphasizing ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Atomic Doctors

    Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age

    by James L. Nolan Jr. ...
    Narrated by Adam Lofbomm ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 9 min

    After his father died, James L. Nolan, Jr., took possession of a box of private family materials. To his surprise, the small secret archive contained a treasure trove of information about his grandfather's role as a doctor in the Manhattan Project. Dr. Nolan, it turned out, had been a significant figure. A talented ob-gyn radiologist, he cared for the scientists on the project, organized safety ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    A Commitment to Compassion

    Reflections from a Life of Service

    by Avram R. Kraft MD ...
    Narrated by Philip R. Smith, Andrew M. White ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 20 min

    In A Commitment to Compassion, Avram R. Kraft, MD, reminds us that each of us can make a difference. Avram makes that difference against a medical landscape, but in sharing his wisdom, insights, doubt, and vulnerabilities, he invites all of us to consider what compassion means and how it can be part of our daily living. As he states in a chapter called Repairing the World, “Every day, we have an ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Искусственный интеллект в медицине: Как умные технологии меняют подход к лечению

    by Эрик Тополь, Эрик Тополь ...
    Narrated by Андрей Барабанщиков, Алекс Лайт ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 41 min

    Мир медицины стремительно меняется: на помощь традиционным врачебным методам приходит искусственный интеллект. Как внедрение новых технологий отразится на современной диагностике и лечении? Как будут взаимодействовать врач и пациент, если обработку данных возьмут на себя машины? Смогут ли пациенты влиять на ход и методы лечения своих заболеваний? Какие перспективы открывает использование ... Read more

    $6.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Frozen

    My Journey Into the World of Cryonics, Deception, and Death

    by Scott Baldyga, Larry Johnson ...
    Narrated by William Dufris ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 34 min

    At first, the job as clinical director at Alcor Life Extension Foundation was an exciting change for veteran paramedic Larry Johnson: a well-funded research facility pushing the limits of modern biotech. But as he gained the trust of his eccentric coworkers and was promoted to acting COO, Larry was thrust into a nightmare world of scandalous controversy, gruesome practices, and deadly secrets. One ... Read more

    $32.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The South Carolina State Hospital

    Stories from Bull Street

    by William Buchheit ...
    Narrated by Adam Lofbomm ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 51 min

    Nearly two decades after it closed, the South Carolina State Hospital continues to hold a palpable mystique in Columbia and throughout the state. Founded in 1821 as the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum, it housed, fed, and treated thousands of patients incapable of surviving on their own. The patient population in 1961 eclipsed 6,600, well above its listed capacity of 4,823, despite an operating ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Scarlet A

    The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Ordinary Abortion

    by Katie Watson ...
    Narrated by Coleen Marlo ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 39 min

    Although Roe v. Wade identified abortion as a constitutional right forty-five years ago, it still bears stigma-a proverbial scarlet A. Millions of Americans have participated in or benefited from an abortion, but few want to reveal that they have done so. Approximately one in five pregnancies in the U.S. ends in abortion. Why is something so common, which has been legal so long, still a source of ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Carte Blanche

    The Erosion of Medical Consent

    by Harriet Washington ...
    Narrated by William DeMeritt ...
    series Columbia Global Reports

    Unabridged

    4 hours 26 min

    Carte Blanche is the alarming tale of how the right of Americans to say "no" to risky medical research is eroding at a time when we are racing to produce a vaccine and treatments for Covid-19This medical right that we have long taken for granted was first sacrificed on the altar of military expediency in 1990 when the Department of Defense asked for and received from the FDA a waiver that ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Undercover Epicenter Nurse

    How Fraud, Negligence, and Greed Led to Unnecessary Deaths at Elmhurst Hospital

    by Erin Marie Olszewski, BSN, RN, J. B. Handley ...
    Narrated by Shirl Rae ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 47 min

    Army combat veteran and registered nurse Erin Olszewski's most deeply held values were put to the test when she arrived as a travel nurse at Elmhurst Hospital in the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. After serving in Iraq, she was back on the front lines-and this time, she found, the situation was even worse. Rooms were filthy, nurses were lax with sanitation measures, and hospital-acquired ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Medical Bondage

    Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology

    by Deirdre Cooper Owens ...
    Narrated by Allyson Johnson ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 39 min

    The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimental caesarean sections, ovariotomies, and obstetric fistula repairs primarily on poor and powerless women. Medical Bondage breaks new ground by exploring how and why physicians denied ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Who Says You're Dead?

    Medical & Ethical Dilemmas for the Curious & Concerned

    by Jacob M. Appel, MD ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Yen ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours

    Drawing upon the author's two decades teaching medical ethics, as well as his work as a practicing psychiatrist, this profound and addictive little book offers up challenging ethical dilemmas and asks listeners, What would you do? - A daughter gets tested to see if she's a match to donate a kidney to her father. The test reveals that she is not the man's biological daughter. Should the doctor tell ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Danger Within Us

    America’s Untested, Unregulated Medical Device Industry and One Man’s Battle to Survive It

    by Jeanne Lenzer ...
    Narrated by Jeanne Lenzer ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 6 min

    Did you know...Medical interventions have become the third leading cause of death in America.An estimated 10 percent of Americans are implanted with medical devices -- like pacemakers, artificial hips, cardiac stents, etc.The overwhelming majority of high-risk implanted devices have never undergone a single clinical trial.In The Danger Within Us, award-winning journalist Jeanne Lenzer brings these ... Read more

    $49.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial