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Vital Organs
- De: Suzie Edge
- Narrado por: Suzie Edge
- Duración: 6 h y 48 m
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A journey through history's most famous limbs, organs, and appendages, from TikTok medical historian Dr Suzie Edge....
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Interesting, Educational, and Occasionally Funny
- De Tricia A. Hamblin en 01-08-24
De: Suzie Edge
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- De: Rebecca Skloot
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 12 h y 30 m
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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 Secret Life of an American Cancer Cell
- De Cynthia en 08-10-13
De: Rebecca Skloot
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The Emperor of All Maladies
- A Biography of Cancer
- De: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 22 h y 18 m
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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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Incredible
- De S.R.E. en 03-02-16
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The Song of the Cell
- An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
- De: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Duración: 16 h y 3 m
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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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Beyond Words Wonderful
- De Lynn en 11-27-22
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Destiny of the Republic
- A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
- De: Candice Millard
- Narrado por: Paul Michael
- Duración: 9 h y 47 m
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James A. Garfield may have been the most extraordinary man ever elected president....
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Marvelous, Magnificent, Millard
- De Mel en 02-08-12
De: Candice Millard
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Profiles in Mental Health Courage
- De: Patrick J. Kennedy, Stephen Fried
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller, Patrick J. Kennedy
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
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In 2015, Patrick J. Kennedy shared the story of his struggle with mental health and addiction in his bestselling memoir; now he reframes how we talk about mental well-being by sharing the powerful stories of others....
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Had little to do with mental health
- De John en 05-18-24
De: Patrick J. Kennedy, y otros
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Vital Organs
- De: Suzie Edge
- Narrado por: Suzie Edge
- Duración: 6 h y 48 m
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A journey through history's most famous limbs, organs, and appendages, from TikTok medical historian Dr Suzie Edge....
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Interesting, Educational, and Occasionally Funny
- De Tricia A. Hamblin en 01-08-24
De: Suzie Edge
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- De: Rebecca Skloot
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 12 h y 30 m
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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 Secret Life of an American Cancer Cell
- De Cynthia en 08-10-13
De: Rebecca Skloot
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The Emperor of All Maladies
- A Biography of Cancer
- De: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 22 h y 18 m
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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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Incredible
- De S.R.E. en 03-02-16
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The Song of the Cell
- An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
- De: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Duración: 16 h y 3 m
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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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Beyond Words Wonderful
- De Lynn en 11-27-22
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Destiny of the Republic
- A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
- De: Candice Millard
- Narrado por: Paul Michael
- Duración: 9 h y 47 m
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James A. Garfield may have been the most extraordinary man ever elected president....
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Marvelous, Magnificent, Millard
- De Mel en 02-08-12
De: Candice Millard
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Profiles in Mental Health Courage
- De: Patrick J. Kennedy, Stephen Fried
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller, Patrick J. Kennedy
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
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In 2015, Patrick J. Kennedy shared the story of his struggle with mental health and addiction in his bestselling memoir; now he reframes how we talk about mental well-being by sharing the powerful stories of others....
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Had little to do with mental health
- De John en 05-18-24
De: Patrick J. Kennedy, y otros
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- De: Thomas S. Kuhn
- Narrado por: Dennis Holland
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is essential listening for understanding the history, philosophy, and evolution of science....
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The problem is not with the book
- De Marcus en 08-09-09
De: Thomas S. Kuhn
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The Butchering Art
- Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
- De: Lindsey Fitzharris
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
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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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Not one boring moment!
- De WRWF en 12-22-17
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Quackery
- A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
- De: Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 10 h y 29 m
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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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Computer-generated Narrator. Dated Humour.
- De Nemo en 12-28-18
De: Lydia Kang, y otros
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The Gene
- An Intimate History
- De: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Duración: 19 h y 22 m
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Mukherjee animates the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices....
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It's a Wonderful Book
- De JKC en 06-02-16
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Complications
- A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
- De: Atul Gawande
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
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A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine....
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FALLIBILITY, MYSTERY AND UNCERTAINTY
- De AnnH en 10-04-20
De: Atul Gawande
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Ten Drugs
- How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
- De: Thomas Hager
- Narrado por: Angelo Di Loreto
- Duración: 8 h y 39 m
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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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Engrossing to physicians & lay persons alike
- De C. White en 03-08-19
De: Thomas Hager
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Ante todo no hagas daño [Do No Harm]
- De: Henry Marsh, Patricia Antón de Vez Ayala-Duarte - translator
- Narrado por: Eugenio Barona
- Duración: 9 h y 15 m
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El eminente neurocirujano británico Henry Marsh expone a ojos del mundo la esencia de una de las especialidades médicas más difíciles, delicadas y fascinantes que existen....
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Supremamente ilustrativo y entretenido
- De Jahzeel en 01-02-23
De: Henry Marsh, y otros
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Better
- A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
- De: Atul Gawande
- Narrado por: John Bedford Lloyd
- Duración: 7 h y 34 m
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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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A MUST read . . .
- De Kathy in CA en 08-11-14
De: Atul Gawande
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The Great Influenza
- The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
- De: John M. Barry
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 19 h y 26 m
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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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Great book but very disturbing...
- De Tim en 01-15-09
De: John M. Barry
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Witches, Midwives & Nurses, 2nd Ed
- A History of Women Healers
- De: Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English
- Narrado por: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
- Duración: 1 h y 55 m
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Witches, Midwives, and Nurses examines how women-led healing was delegitimized to make way for patriarchy, capitalism, and the emerging medical industry....
De: Barbara Ehrenreich, y otros
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The Mosquito
- A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
- De: Timothy C. Winegard
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 19 h y 7 m
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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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Major Disappointment
- De Amazon Customer en 09-02-19
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Anatomy of an Epidemic
- Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
- De: Robert Whitaker
- Narrado por: Ken Kliban
- Duración: 13 h y 57 m
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In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery....
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The author does not use a fair scientific approach
- De Michael en 08-15-10
De: Robert Whitaker
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Get Well Soon
- History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
- De: Jennifer Wright
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 7 h y 44 m
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Throughout time, humans have been terrified and fascinated by the diseases history and circumstance have dropped on them....
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Didn't know syphilis could be so fascinating.
- De Kindle Customer en 02-09-17
De: Jennifer Wright
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An Anthropologist on Mars
- Seven Paradoxical Tales
- De: Oliver Sacks
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Oliver Sacks
- Duración: 11 h y 42 m
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To these seven narratives of neurological disorder Dr. Sacks brings the same humanity, poetic observation, and infectious sense of wonder....
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SACKS IS AN ABSOLUTE JOY !!
- De Jeff en 09-22-13
De: Oliver Sacks
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Unwell Women
- Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
- De: Elinor Cleghorn
- Narrado por: Hanako Footman
- Duración: 14 h y 8 m
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A trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women’s health - from the earliest medical ideas about women’s illnesses to hormones and autoimmune diseases - brought together in a fascinating, sweeping narrative....
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Profound Read; A Sincere Stepping Stone to Understanding My Own Why
- De Nicole en 07-23-21
De: Elinor Cleghorn
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The Great Pretender
- The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness
- De: Susannah Cahalan
- Narrado por: Christie Moreau, Susannah Cahalan
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
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From "one of America's most courageous young journalists" (NPR) comes a propulsive narrative history investigating the 50-year-old mystery behind a dramatic experiment that changed the course of modern medicine....
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Important story of fraud really well told
- De ReallyNelie en 12-27-19
De: Susannah Cahalan
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The Moth in the Iron Lung
- A Biography of Polio
- De: Forrest Maready
- Narrado por: Forrest Maready
- Duración: 5 h y 54 m
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A fascinating account of the world’s most famous disease - polio - told as you have never heard it before. Epidemics of paralysis began to rage in the early 1900s, seemingly out of nowhere....
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Root Cause
- De Circlekay1 Gulfport MS en 10-24-19
De: Forrest Maready
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The Urge
- Our History of Addiction
- De: Carl Erik Fisher
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 11 h y 20 m
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As a psychiatrist in training fresh from medical school, Carl Erik Fisher found himself face-to-face with an addiction crisis that nearly cost him everything.
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The Best Addiction/Recovery Book
- De treena meyer en 04-21-22
De: Carl Erik Fisher
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When Death Becomes Life
- Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
- De: Joshua D. Mezrich
- Narrado por: Josh Bloomberg
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
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At the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Joshua Mezrich creates life from loss, transplanting organs from one body to another. In this intimate, profoundly moving work, he illuminates the extraordinary field of transplantation that enables this kind of miracle to happen every day....
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Memoir and history, beautifully written
- De Bonny en 01-22-19
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Overkill
- When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far
- De: Paul A. Offit
- Narrado por: Tim H. Dixon
- Duración: 7 h y 8 m
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An acclaimed medical expert and patient advocate offers an eye-opening look at many common and widely used medical interventions that have been shown to be far more harmful than helpful....
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fascinating
- De GS en 05-13-20
De: Paul A. Offit
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The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons
- The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
- De: Sam Kean
- Narrado por: Henry Leyva
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
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The author of the best seller The Disappearing Spoon reveals the secret inner workings of the brain through strange but true stories....
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Detailed but not overly Technical
- De Michael en 05-06-15
De: Sam Kean
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Deadly Companions
- How Microbes Shaped Our History
- De: Dorothy H. Crawford
- Narrado por: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Duración: 7 h y 52 m
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Ever since we started huddling together in communities, the story of human history has been inextricably entwined with the story of microbes. They have evolved and spread amongst us, shaping our culture through infection, disease, and pandemic....
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Fantastic writing, research and narration!
- De Terrie en 02-26-21
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The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science
- A Scientist's Warning
- De: Peter J. Hotez MD PhD
- Narrado por: Graham Winton
- Duración: 6 h y 6 m
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In this eyewitness story of how the anti-vaccine movement grew into a dangerous and prominent anti-science element in American politics, Dr. Peter J. Hotez describes the devastating impacts it has had on Americans’ health and lives....
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AN URGENT WARNING TO THE WORLD
- De Charles J. Tongren en 11-24-23
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A Taste for Poison
- Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
- De: Neil Bradbury Ph.D.
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 7 h y 15 m
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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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Poison, Murder, and So Much More!
- De Rebecca Hill en 02-12-22