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Health Policy Audiobooks

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    Catastrophic Care

    How American Health Care Killed My Father--and How We Can Fix It

    by David Goldhill ...
    Narrated by Dean Sluyter ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 1 min

    A visionary investigation that will change the way we think about health care: how and why it is failing, why expanding coverage will actually make things worse, and how our health care can be transformed into a transparent, affordable, successful system.In 2007, David Goldhill’s father died from infections acquired in a hospital, one of more than two hundred thousand avoidable deaths per year ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Lifelines

    A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health

    by Dr. Leana Wen ...
    Narrated by Dr. Leana Wen ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 35 min

    "Dr. Wen is determined to convince listeners how crucial it is to make healthcare and all it encompasses higher priorities. Covering a variety of physical and mental health topics, Wen entreats listeners and supports her plea with solid evidence. She is vibrant in tone when pointing out how much public health affects our lives." -- Audiofile MagazineThis program is read by the author.From medical ... Read more

    $31.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Compassion Project

    A case for hope and humankindness from the town that beat loneliness

    by Julian Abel, Lindsay Clarke ...
    Narrated by Paul Panting ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 6 min

    'It could... be one of the most dramatic medical breakthroughs of recent decades. It could transform treatment regimes, save lives, and save health services a fortune. Is it a drug? A device? A surgical procedure? No, it's a newfangled intervention called community.' George Monbiot, The GuardianFrome in Somerset has seen a dramatic fall in emergency hospital admissions since it began a collective ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Tyranny of the Gene

    Personalized Medicine and Its Threat to Public Health

    by James Tabery ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours

    A revelatory account of how power, politics, and greed have placed the unfulfilled promise of “personalized medicine” at the center of American medicineThe United States is embarking on a medical revolution. Supporters of personalized or precision medicine—the tailoring of health care to our genomes—have promised to usher in a new era of miracle cures. Advocates of this gene-guided health-care ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Unmasked

    COVID, Community, and the Case of Okoboji

    by Emily Mendenhall ...
    Narrated by Joana Garcia ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 57 min

    Unmasked is the story of what happened in Okoboji, a small Iowan tourist town, when a collective turn from the coronavirus to the economy occurred in the COVID summer of 2020. State political failures, local negotiations among political and public health leaders, and community (dis)belief about the virus resulted in Okoboji being declared a hotspot just before the Independence Day weekend, when an ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Make America Healthy Again

    How Bad Behavior and Big Government Caused a Trillion-Dollar Crisis

    by Nicole Saphier ...
    Narrated by Emily Durante ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 54 min

    If Americans want to know why their health care is so costly and getting costlier, they need only look in the mirror.Americans are notoriously unhealthy—we eat too much, drink too much, and sit too much. When roughly 80 percent of cardiovascular disease and 40 percent of all cancer cases could be prevented by simple lifestyle changes, it is time to take a deeper look at the problem and ask who is ... Read more

    $42.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Panic Attack

    Playing Politics with Science in the Fight Against COVID-19

    by Nicole Saphier ...
    Narrated by Nicole Saphier ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 1 min

    “Follow the science” is what they said. “Follow our politics” is what they meant.In Panic Attack, nationally bestselling author and physician Nicole Saphier uncovers the hypocrisy and hysteria which has characterized so much of the American pandemic response. While journalists trumpeted the importance of following science to “flatten the curve,” they praised Governors Andrew Cuomo and Phil Murphy, ... Read more

    $42.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Health Communism

    A Surplus Manifesto

    by Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Artie Vierkant ...
    Narrated by Sarah Welborn ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 55 min

    A searing analysis of health and illness under capitalism from hosts of the hit podcast Death Panel Written by cohosts of the hit Death Panel podcast and longtime disability justice and healthcare activists Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie, Health Communism first examines how capital has instrumentalized health, disability, madness, and illness to create a class seen as "surplus," regarded as a ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Get What's Yours for Health Care

    How to Get the Best Care at the Right Price

    by Philip Moeller ...
    Narrated by Vikas Adam ...
    series The Get What's Yours Series

    Unabridged

    8 hours 26 min

    At a time when healthcare and medical insurance are more important than ever comes this authoritative, unbiased new volume in the acclaimed Get What’s Yours series.Healthcare expert Philip Moeller has written a reliable, concise guide to healthcare and health insurance basics. He provides tools that patients need before, during, and after they get medical care. He describes the care we need, the ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Summary of Michael Lewis's The Premonition

    by Falcon Press ...
    Narrated by Paul Bartlett ...

    Unabridged

    28 min

    Buy now to get the key takeaways from Michael Lewis's The Premonition.Sample Key Takeaways:In 2011, Dr. Charity Dean, a microbiology major with an interest in pandemic diseases, accepted a job as deputy public health officer for Santa Barbara County. One of her major tasks was to spot and take immediate action when a contagious disease seemed to be threatening the area.By 2014, Charity had become ... Read more

    $8.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Physician on a Mission

    Dr. Veltmeyer’s RX to Save America

    by Dr. James Veltmeyer ...
    Narrated by Vladimir F. Louissaint ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 22 min

    In “Physician on a Mission: Dr. Veltmeyer’s Rx to Save America,” Dr. James Veltmeyer offers his prescription for curing the deepening crisis of our American republic as it is brutally bombarded by cultural revolutionaries in our media and universities and globalist manipulators in New York, Washington, and Silicon Valley. In this book, Dr. Veltmeyer shares his views on a host of critical national ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Preventable

    How a Pandemic Changed the World & How to Stop the Next One

    by Devi Sridhar ...
    Narrated by Devi Sridhar ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 47 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Preventable uses the spellbinding story of the COVID-19 pandemic to show how global politics shape our health.Professor Devi Sridhar has risen to prominence for her vital roles in communicating science to the public and speaking truth to power. In Preventable she highlights lessons learned from outbreaks past and present in a narrative that traces the COVID-19 pandemic - ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    My Quest for Health Equity

    Notes on Learning While Leading

    by David Satcher, MD, PhD ...
    Narrated by David Satcher, MD, PhD ...
    series Health Equity in America

    Unabridged

    7 hours 46 min

    Dr. David Satcher is one of the most widely known and well-regarded physicians of our time. A former four-star admiral in the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, he served as the assistant secretary for health, the surgeon general of the United States, and the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention before founding the eponymous Satcher Health Leadership Institute at ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Landmark

    The Inside Story of America’s New Health Care Law and What It Means for Us All

    by the Staff of the Washington Post ...
    Narrated by Pam Ward ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 26 min

    After a year-long political war, in March 2010 President Obama and the Democratic leaders of Congress achieved a victory that has eluded lawmakers for seventy-five years: an overhaul of America’s health-care system. In this indispensable book, the staff of the Washington Post tells the story of health-care reform and explains what it means for the American people.In the book’s first section, the ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Accidental Indies

    by Robert Finley ...
    Narrated by Julian Casey ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 1 min

    At once moving and lyrical, The Accidental Indies is a tale in which we join Christopher Columbus on a fantastical voyage through western seas and Western imagination. Robert Finley imagines, sings, charts, and paints the story of Columbus's problematic 1492 expedition to the Caribbean, creating a world that is as vivid and compelling as the explorer's own voyage to the misnamed "Indies".It is a ... Read more

    $20.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Social Distancing

    by Introbooks Team ...
    Narrated by Tracy Tupman ...

    Unabridged

    45 min

    Social distancing is a term used for such measures that Health authorities take to discourage or delay the spread of a highly infectious disease. The Health Official has the legislative power to introduce steps to isolate society as these initiatives would have a direct effect on our society. Any effort to implement social distancing initiatives must be orchestrated with local authorities such as ... Read more

    $5.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Poisoned

    The True Story of the Deadly E. Coli Outbreak That Changed the Way Americans Eat

    by Jeff Benedict ...
    Narrated by Jackie Sanders ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 43 min

    **NOW A NETFLIX DOCUMENTARYFrom Jeff Benedict, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tiger Woods and The Dynasty, Poisoned chronicles the events surrounding the worst food-poisoning epidemic in US history: the deadly Jack in the Box E. coli infections in 1993.**On December 24, 1992, six-year-old Lauren Rudolph was hospitalized with excruciating stomach pain. Less than a week later she was ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    How to Prevent the Next Pandemic

    by Bill Gates ...
    Narrated by Bill Gates, Wil Wheaton ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 37 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Before Bill Gates became an expert on climate science, he was known as one of the few who studied pandemics - how they start, how they spread, how they can be controlled. He warned us years ago in a now-famous TED Talk of their arrival in our future. The future, of course, is now, and now is when we have to plan against a next one.HOW TO PREVENT THE NEXT PANDEMIC is a ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Choice

    The Abortion Divide in America

    by Danielle D'Souza Gill ...
    Narrated by Danielle D'Souza Gill ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 33 min

    See the debate on abortion from a new perspective as a young conservative discusses the effects that modern culture and politics have had on both sides of the argument.Danielle D'Souza Gill, in a pathbreaking new book, blows the lid off the abortion debate, which is radically different than it was when the Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling of Roe v. Wade in 1973. Technology has transformed ... Read more

    $51.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    COVID-19 and World Order

    The Future of Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation

    Narrated by Mike Lenz ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 45 min

    The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has killed hundreds of thousands of people and infected millions while also devastating the world economy. The consequences of the pandemic, however, go much further: they threaten the fabric of national and international politics around the world. As Henry Kissinger warned, "The coronavirus epidemic will forever alter the world order." What will be the consequences ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Quest for Sexual Health

    How an Elusive Ideal Has Transformed Science, Politics, and Everyday Life

    by Steven Epstein ...
    Narrated by Steve Menasche ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 53 min

    Since the 1970s, health professionals, researchers, governments, advocacy groups, and commercial interests have invested in the pursuit of something called "sexual health." Under this expansive banner, a wide array of programs have been launched, organizations founded, initiatives funded, products sold-and yet, no book before this one asks: What does it mean to be sexually healthy? Conjoining ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    If I Betray These Words

    Moral Injury in Medicine and Why It's So Hard for Clinicians to Put Patients First

    by Wendy Dean, Simon Talbot ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 57 min

    **Through stories and solutions, leading physicians tackle the conundrum of how best to care for patients while being thwarted by the business side of healthcareMoves "away from calling doctors’ difficulties 'burnout' — thus blaming doctors — to 'moral injury' — like soldiers floundering under unjust orders. A brilliant expansive book.” — Samuel Shem, Professor in Medicine at NYU Medical School, ... Read more

    $38.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Code Blue

    Inside America’s Medical Industrial Complex

    by Mike Magee, MD ...
    Narrated by Michael Butler Murray ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours

    How has the United States, with more resources than any nation, developed a healthcare system that delivers much poorer results, at near double the cost of any other developed country-such that legendary seer Warren Buffett calls the Medical Industrial Complex "the tapeworm of American economic competitiveness"? Mike Magee, MD, who worked for years inside the Medical Industrial Complex ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Taking Immunizations Safely

    Understanding vaccines and immunizations, and how the body responds to them

    by Kerri Ryan ...
    Narrated by Michael Smith ...

    Unabridged

    37 min

    Mandatory vaccines are nothing new, we all had to line up for polio shots, MMR shots, and a host of other vaccines before we were allowed to go to school, and with good reason. However, the Mandatory COVID shots and boosters do not fit into this category. They were not properly vetted, and we are now seeing many cases where they did more harm than good.Viruses are living things that mutate and ... Read more

    $4.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial