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    The Facemaker

    One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I

    by Lindsey Fitzharris ...
    Narrated by Daniel Gillies ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 14 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind's military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. The war caused carnage on an industrial scale, and the nature of trench warfare meant that thousands sustained facial injuries. In The Facemaker, award-winning historian Lindsey Fitzharris tells the true ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe

    by Niall Ferguson ...
    Narrated by Niall Ferguson ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 35 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Disasters are inherently hard to predict. But when catastrophe strikes, we ought to be better prepared than the Romans were when Vesuvius erupted or medieval Italians when the Black Death struck. We have science on our side, after all. Yet the responses of many developed countries to a new pathogen from China were badly bungled. Why?While populist rulers certainly ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Shrinks

    The Untold Story of Psychiatry

    by Jeffrey A. Lieberman, Ogi Ogas ...
    Narrated by Graham Corrigan ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 45 min

    A world-renowned psychiatrist reveals the fascinating story of psychiatry's origins, demise and redemption.Psychiatry has come a long way since the days of chaining 'lunatics' in cold cells and parading them as freakish marvels before a gaping public. But, as Jeffrey Lieberman reveals in his extraordinary and eye-opening book, the path to legitimacy for 'the black sheep of medicine' has been ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Pale Rider

    The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World

    by Laura Spinney ...
    Narrated by Paul Hodgson ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 4 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.With a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918–1920 was the greatest human disaster, not only of the twentieth century, but possibly in all of recorded history. And yet, in our popular conception it exists largely as a footnote to World War I.In Pale Rider, Laura Spinney recounts the story of an overlooked pandemic, ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Song of the Cell

    An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

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

    Unabridged

    16 hours 2 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.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, about the fundamental unit of life. Rich with Mukherjee's revelatory and exhilarating stories of scientists, doctors, and the patients whose lives may be saved by their work, The Song of the Cell is the third book ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Phantom Plague

    How Tuberculosis Shaped History

    by Vidya Krishnan ...
    Narrated by Sneha Mathan ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 53 min

    The definitive social history of tuberculosis, from its origins as a haunting mystery to its modern reemergence that now threatens populations around the world.It killed novelist George Orwell, Eleanor Roosevelt, and millions of others – rich and poor. Desmond Tutu, Amitabh Bachchan, and Nelson Mandela survived it, just. For centuries, tuberculosis has ravaged cities and plagued the human body.In ... Read more

    $49.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Spillover

    Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

    by David Quammen ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Yen ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 47 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.A gripping, timely book about the transmission of deadly viruses from animal to human populations, and how we can tackle a global pandemic.As globalization spreads and as we destroy the ancient ecosystems, we encounter strange and dangerous infections that originate in animals but that can be transmitted to humans. Diseases that were contained are being set free and the ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    This Won't Hurt

    How Medicine Fails Women

    by Marieke Bigg ...
    Narrated by Daphne Kouma ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 17 min

    The past, present and future of the sexism inherent in medicine and medical research - and how to change it.The idea that medicine is gender-neutral is a myth. This isn't inflammatory rhetoric; it's simply true. From the way pain is felt, to how heart attacks are diagnosed, to the very role society plays in the health of the body, the medical landscape in place today is one that was designed for, ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic

    by Richard A. McKay ...
    Narrated by Paul Woodson ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 32 min

    In Patient Zero, Richard A. McKay presents a carefully documented and sensitively written account of the life of Gaetan Dugas, a gay man whose skin cancer diagnosis in 1980 took on very different meanings as the HIV/AIDS epidemic developed-and who received widespread posthumous infamy when he was incorrectly identified as patient zero of the North American outbreak. McKay shows how investigators ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Eksperimenter med mennesker - Dødens Engel fra Auschwitz

    by Gyldendal Stereo ...
    Narrated by Anne Jeppesen ...
    Audiobook 7 - Eksperimenter med mennesker

    Unabridged

    48 min

    DØDENS ENGEL FRA AUSCHWITZ handler om lægen Josef Mengele, der i 1943 ankommer til koncentrationslejren i Auschwitz. Mengele står for inddelingen af de jøder, der ankommer til lejren. Til venstre dem der skal dræbes, til højre de arbejdsduelige. Til sig selv udvælger han tvillingepar, som han udsætter for grusomme og absurde forsøg.Videnskaben har altid eksperimenteret på mennesker, og ... Read more

    $8.99 AUD

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    Ritual and Myths in Nursing

    A Social History

    by Claire Laurent ...
    Narrated by Poppy Manley ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 2 min

    Nursing is a complex profession steeped in tradition and history. Tried and tested ways of working have been the mainstay of how and why nurses do what they do. Completing tasks in a certain way because “Sister says so” describes the custom and practice of nursing, passed on through the generations that existed for most of the 20th Century and can still hold sway today.Science and evidence-based ... Read more

    $45.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Religio Medici: The Religion of a Doctor

    by Sir Thomas Browne ...
    Narrated by Gil Anders ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 51 min

    ‘Religio Medici: The Religion of a Doctor’ (1643) by Sir Thomas Browne is an explanation and analysis of the author’s religious belief in relation to his profession as a medical doctor. As such, it is a spiritual testament and a psychological self-portrait based on the Christian virtues of faith, hope and charity. In the preface, Browne explains that his text is not a scholarly work, requesting ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Historiens værste epidemier

    by Alt Om Historie ...
    Narrated by Peter Milling ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 43 min

    I USA begynder pludselig soldater at bløde fra munden og ørerne. Året er 1918, og den mystiske sygdom spreder sig med lynets hastighed, og et par uger senere er hele tre kontinenter påvirkede. Det følgende dør halvtreds millioner mennesker døde. Sygdommen, der kaldes den spanske syge, fordi spanske aviser er de første til at skrive om den, er forårsaget af en virus. Nyere undersøgelser viser, at ... Read more

    $8.99 AUD

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    Sisters In Arms

    British Army Nurses Tell Their Story

    by Nicola Tyrer ...
    Narrated by Barbara Flynn, Sian Thomas ...

    Abridged

    4 hours 40 min

    The amazing experiences of the Queen Alexandra nurses in the Second World War form one of the greatest adventure stories of modern times, and - incredibly - remain largely untold. Thousands of middle-class girls, barely out of school, were plucked from sheltered backgrounds, subjected to training regimes unimaginably tough by today's standards, and sent forth to share the harsh conditions of the ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Pandemic Century

    A History of Global Contagion

    by Mark Honigsbaum ...
    Narrated by John Lee ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 40 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.A Financial Times Best Book of the YearThe most timely and informative history book you will read this year, tracing a century of pandemics.Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet, despite a century of medical progress, viral and bacterial disasters continue to take us by ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    History of Science, Sexuality, and Medicine, The

    by Myrna Sheldon ...
    Narrated by Myrna Sheldon ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 31 min

    What does the history of science reveal about sex and sexuality? Explore the relationship between body and sexual identity with a Harvard-educated expert.Prior to the seventeenth century, Western attitudes toward sexuality came primarily from reading scripture. With the onset of the Atlantic slave trade and the proliferation of European colonies, however, encounters with new racial and ethnic ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Mesmerist

    The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound

    by Wendy Moore ...
    Narrated by Piers Hampton ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 41 min

    Medicine, in the early 1800s, was a brutal business. Operations were performed without anaesthesia while conventional treatment relied on leeches, cupping and toxic potions. The most surgeons could offer by way of pain relief was a large swig of brandy.Into this scene came John Elliotson, the dazzling new hope of the medical world. Charismatic and ambitious, Elliotson was determined to transform ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Lifesavers and Body Snatchers

    Medical Care and the Struggle for Survival in the Great War

    by Tim Cook ...
    Narrated by John Fleming ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 41 min

    ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 TEMPLER MEDAL FOR BEST BOOK*From Canada’s top war historian, a definitive medical history of the Great War, illuminating how the carnage of modern battle gave birth to revolutionary life-saving innovations. It brings to light shocking revelations of the ways the brutality of combat and the necessity of agonizing battlefield decisions led to unimaginable strain for men ... Read more

    $41.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever

    by Oliver Wendell Holmes ...
    Narrated by Adriel Brandt ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 9 min

    Do you know anyone who has died of puerperal fever? Probably not, thanks to this groundbreaking essay published by Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1843. With great passion and intelligence, Holmes sets forth his revolutionary argument on the prevention of an illness which had claimed the lives of new mothers in epidemic proportions. Though his findings were not accepted until years later, Holmes’ seminal ... Read more

    $13.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    For the Benefit of Those Who See

    Dispatches from the World of the Blind

    by Rosemary Mahoney ...
    Narrated by Rosemary Mahoney ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 27 min

    In the tradition of Oliver Sacks's The Island of the Colorblind, Rosemary Mahoney tells the story of Braille Without Borders, the first school for the blind in Tibet, and of Sabriye Tenberken, the remarkable blind woman who founded the school.Fascinated and impressed by what she learned from the blind children of Tibet, Mahoney was moved to investigate further the cultural history of blindness. As ... Read more

    $49.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Vaccines: Are They Worth a Shot?

    by Andrea Grignolio ...
    Narrated by George Newbern ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 16 min

    The dangerous decline in vaccinations in many developed countries is at the heart of a lively debate that confirms how important the subject is today. Vaccinations are among mankind’s most important scientific discoveries, yet they continue to be viewed with suspicion by part of the public—the victims of disinformation campaigns, instrumentalization, and unfounded fears. There is, however, also an ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Medical Downfall of the Tudors

    Sex, Reproduction & Succession

    by Sylvia Barbara Soberton ...
    Narrated by Christine Rendel ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 12 min

    The Tudor dynasty died out because there was no heir of Elizabeth I's body to succeed her. Henry VIII, despite his six marriages, had produced no legitimate son who would live into old age. Three of the reigning Tudors (Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I) died without heirs apparent, the most tragic case being that of Mary Tudor, who went through two recorded cases of phantom pregnancy. If it were ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Flesh Made New

    The Unnatural History and Broken Promise of Stem Cells

    by John Rasko, Carl Power ...
    Narrated by John Rasko ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 58 min

    The dazzling promise of stem cell medicine: does it work and will it save us? Two experts look at the hypeFor decades, we've been anticipating the dawn of regenerative medicine. Again and again, we've been promised that stem cells will soon cure just about every ill imaginable. If not tomorrow, then the next day, or the day after that, and so on. We're still waiting.This book is an antidote to ... Read more

    $49.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Righteous Rebels, Revised Edition

    AIDS Healthcare Foundation's Crusade to Change the World

    by Patrick Range McDonald ...
    Narrated by Paul Boehmer ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 51 min

    In a riveting portrait of the world's largest HIV/AIDS medical-care provider, award-winning journalist Patrick Range McDonald reveals AIDS Healthcare Foundation's unlikely rise from a feisty grassroots organization during the height of 1980s AIDS crisis to its position today as a global leader in the fight to control HIV and AIDS. This untold story highlights AHF's bold history of activism, its ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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