Polio
An American Story
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Pulitzer Prize, History, 2006
This comprehensive and gripping narrative covers all the challenges, characters, and controversies in America's relentless struggle against polio. Funded by philanthropy and grassroots contributions, Salk's killed-virus vaccine (1954) and Sabin's live-virus vaccine (1961) began to eradicate this dreaded disease.Author David M. Oshinsky, a multiple New York Times Notable Book winner and University of Texas professor, is a leading American political and cultural historian.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book
- De Tim en 08-10-06
De: Jeffrey Kluger
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The Panic Virus
- A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear
- De: Seth Mnookin
- Narrado por: Dan John Miller
- Duración: 10 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 280
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 207
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 206
The Panic Virus is a gripping scientific detective story about how grassroots radicals, snake-oil salesmen, and cynical journalists have perpetrated the biggest health-scare hoax of all time. It explores what happens when the media treats all viewpoints as equally valid, regardless of facts, from parents who are convinced that vaccines caused their children's autism to right-wing radicals who believe that climate change is a myth
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible thorough journey
- De Rachel Dewald en 03-22-11
De: Seth Mnookin
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How to Survive a Plague
- The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
- De: David France
- Narrado por: Rory O'Malley
- Duración: 24 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 330
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 308
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 307
A riveting, powerful telling of the story of the grassroots movement of activists, many of them in a life-or-death struggle, who seized upon scientific research to help develop the drugs that turned HIV from a mostly fatal infection to a manageable disease. Ignored by public officials, religious leaders, and the nation at large, and confronted with shame and hatred, this small group of men and women chose to fight for their right to live by educating themselves and demanding to become full partners in the race for effective treatments.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Read This Book!
- De Kay M Hawklee en 05-30-17
De: David France
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Bellevue
- Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital
- De: David Oshinsky
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 14 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,121
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 992
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 987
David Oshinsky, whose last book, Polio: An American Story, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize, chronicles the history of America's oldest hospital and in so doing also charts the rise of New York to the nation's preeminent city, the path of American medicine from butchery and quackery to a professional and scientific endeavor, and the growth of a civic institution.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating
- De Jean en 12-14-16
De: David Oshinsky
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The Birth of the Pill
- How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
- De: Jonathan Eig
- Narrado por: Gayle Hendrix
- Duración: 12 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 254
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 228
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 227
We know it simply as "the pill", yet its genesis was anything but simple. Jonathan Eig's masterful narrative revolves around four principal characters: the fiery feminist Margaret Sanger, who was a champion of birth control in her campaign for the rights of women but neglected her own children in pursuit of free love; the beautiful Katharine McCormick, who owed her fortune to her wealthy husband, the son of the founder of International Harvester and a schizophrenic.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Overall Excellent Read
- De Rachel en 04-02-22
De: Jonathan Eig
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The Remedy
- Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis
- De: Thomas Goetz
- Narrado por: Donald Corren
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 584
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 512
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 509
In 1875, tuberculosis was the deadliest disease in the world, accountable for a third of all deaths. A diagnosis of TB - often called consumption - was a death sentence. Then, in a triumph of medical science, a German doctor named Robert Koch deployed an unprecedented scientific rigor to discover the bacteria that caused TB. Koch soon embarked on a remedy - a remedy that would be his undoing. When Koch announced his cure for consumption, Arthur Conan Doyle, then a small-town doctor in England and sometime writer, went to Berlin to cover the event.
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4 out of 5 stars
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thought-provoking
- De Jean en 07-06-14
De: Thomas Goetz
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The Secret History of the War on Cancer
- De: Devra Davis Ph.D.
- Narrado por: Pam Ward
- Duración: 19 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24
The War on Cancer was run by leaders of industries that made cancer-causing products and sometimes also profited from drugs and technologies for finding and treating the disease. Filled with compelling personalities and never-before-revealed information, The Secret History of the War on Cancer shows how we began fighting the wrong war, with the wrong weapons, against the wrong enemies, a legacy that persists to this day.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Silly Book
- De Adam Smith en 12-24-14
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Flu
- The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It
- De: Gina Kolata
- Narrado por: Gina Kolata
- Duración: 6 h y 14 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 488
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 230
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 227
Feeling feverish, tired, or achy? Listening to Gina Kolata's engrossing account of the 1918 Influenza epidemic is sure to give you the chills. A gripping work of science writing, Flu addresses the prospects for a great epidemic recurring, and considers what can be done to prevent it.
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1 out of 5 stars
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overexcited
- De Marilyn en 07-23-03
De: Gina Kolata
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Influenza
- The Hundred-Year Hunt to Cure the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic
- De: Dr. Jeremy Brown
- Narrado por: Holter Graham
- Duración: 6 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 361
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 309
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 307
On the 100th anniversary of the devastating pandemic of 1918, Jeremy Brown, a veteran ER doctor, explores the troubling, terrifying, and complex history of the flu virus, from the origins of the Great Flu that killed millions, to vexing questions such as: are we prepared for the next epidemic, should you get a flu shot, and how close are we to finding a cure?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Important read
- De Kathryn C. en 12-21-18
De: Dr. Jeremy Brown
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Epic Measures
- One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients.
- De: Jeremy N. Smith
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 10 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 49
Moneyball meets medicine in this remarkable chronicle of one of the greatest scientific quests of our time - the groundbreaking program to answer the most essential question for humanity: How do we live and die? - and the visionary mastermind behind it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fabulously insightful read!
- De Dr. Jack E. Fincham en 10-08-15
De: Jeremy N. Smith
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Teeth
- The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
- De: Mary Otto
- Narrado por: Suehyla El'Attar
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 275
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 243
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 245
Teeth takes listeners on a disturbing journey into America's silent epidemic of oral disease, exposing the hidden connections between tooth decay and stunted job prospects, low educational achievement, social mobility, and the troubling state of our public health.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Content everyone should know; dismal narration
- De Elaine en 08-04-17
De: Mary Otto
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King of Hearts
- The True Story of the Maverick Who Pioneered Open Heart Surgery
- De: G. Wayne Miller
- Narrado por: Patrick Cullen
- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 284
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 172
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 169
G. Wayne Miller has dramatically and meticulously reconstructed an amazing true story: how a group of renegade Minnesota surgeons, led by Dr. Walt Lillehei, made medical history by becoming the first doctors to operate deep inside the human heart.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved every minute
- De Brian en 02-05-08
De: G. Wayne Miller
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The Pandemic Century
- One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris
- De: Mark Honigsbaum
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 13 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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 surprise, inciting panic and dominating news cycles. From the Spanish flu to the 1924 outbreak of pneumonic plague in Los Angeles to the 1930 "parrot fever" pandemic, through the more recent SARS, Ebola, and Zika epidemics, the last one hundred years have been marked by a succession of unanticipated pandemic alarms.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Pretty good
- De Baz 12345 en 04-03-20
De: Mark Honigsbaum
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The Family That Couldn't Sleep
- A Medical Mystery
- De: D.T. Max
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 488
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 270
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 273
For 200 years, a noble Venetian family has suffered from an inherited disease that strikes their members in middle age, stealing their sleep, eating holes in their brains, and ending their lives in a matter of months. In Papua New Guinea, a primitive tribe is nearly obliterated by a sickness whose chief symptom is uncontrollable laughter. Across Europe, millions of sheep rub their fleeces raw before collapsing. What these strange conditions share is their cause: prions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great scientific mystery
- De David en 11-04-06
De: D.T. Max
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Silent Invasion
- The Untold Story of the Trump Administration, Covid-19, and Preventing the Next Pandemic Before It's Too Late
- De: Deborah Birx
- Narrado por: Kathe Mazur
- Duración: 22 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 113
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 114
In late February 2020, Dr. Deborah Birx—a lifelong federal health official who had worked at the CDC, the State Department, and the US Army across multiple presidential administrations—was asked to join the Trump White House Coronavirus Task Force and assist the already faltering federal response to the Covid-19 pandemic. For weeks, she’d been raising the alarm behind the scenes about what she saw happening in public—from the apparent lack of urgency at the White House to the routine downplaying of the risks to Americans.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great insight into Public Health
- De Ann-Karen Weller en 05-09-22
De: Deborah Birx
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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
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,377
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,035
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,027
In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of 19th-century surgery on the eve of profound transformation. She conjures up early operating theaters - no place for the squeamish - and surgeons, working before anesthesia, who were lauded for their speed and brute strength. They were baffled by the persistent infections that kept mortality rates stubbornly high. A young, melancholy Quaker surgeon named Joseph Lister would solve the deadly riddle and change the course of history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not one boring moment!
- De WRF en 12-22-17
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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. It killed more people in 24 weeks than AIDS has killed in 24 years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision between modern science and epidemic disease.
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Disease & History
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Arising from collaboration between a doctor and a historian, Disease and History offers the general listener a wide-ranging and accessible account of the ways in which disease has left its dramatic mark on the past. It discusses the impact made by bubonic plague and other infections upon the ancient and medieval worlds; the likely role of syphilis in the careers of Henry VIII and Ivan the Terrible; the significance of smallpox for the conquest of Mexico; and the contribution of typhus to Napoleon's downfall and of hemophilia to the collapse of Tsarist rule in Russia.
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awesome!
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Summer for the Gods
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Edward Larson's classic, Summer for the Gods, received the Pulitzer Prize in History in 1998 and is the single most authoritative account of a pivotal event whose combatants remain at odds in school districts and courtrooms. For this edition Larson has added a new preface that assesses the state of the battle between creationism and evolution and points the way to how it might potentially be resolved.
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Respected physician Paul Offit tells a fascinating story of modern medicine and pays tribute to one of the greatest lifesaving breakthroughs—vaccinations—and the medical hero responsible for developing nine of the big fourteen vaccines which have saved billions of lives worldwide.
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Salk became a cultural hero and icon for a whole generation. Now, at the fiftieth anniversary of the first national vaccination program, and as humanity is tantalizingly close to eradicating polio worldwide, comes this unforgettable chronicle. Salk's work was an unparalleled achievement, and it makes for a magnificent listen.
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In this landmark work that will forever change your understanding of how and why America went to war in Vietnam, author Fredrik Logevall taps newly accessible diplomatic archives in several nations and traces the path that led two Western nations to tragically lose their way in the jungles of Southeast Asia. He brings to life the bloodiest battles of France’s final years in Indochina - and describes how, from an early point, a succession of American leaders made disastrous policy choices that put America on its own collision course with history.
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Understanding Why We failed the People of Vietnam
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The Metaphysical Club
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- De: Louis Menand
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
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The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., future associate justice of the United States Supreme Court; William James, the father of modern American psychology; and Charles Sanders Peirce, logician, scientist, and the founder of semiotics. The Club was probably in existence for about nine months. No records were kept. The one thing we know that came out of it was an idea - an idea about ideas. This book is the story of that idea.
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Covered with Night
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On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 1722, two White fur traders attacked an Indigenous hunter and left him for dead near Conestoga, Pennsylvania. This act of brutality set into motion a remarkable series of criminal investigations and cross-cultural negotiations that challenged the definition of justice in early America. Leading historian Nicole Eustace reconstructs the crime and its aftermath, bringing us into the overlapping worlds of white colonists and Indigenous peoples in this formative period.
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The Radicalism of the American Revolution
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Grand in scope, rigorous in its arguments, and elegantly synthesizing 30 years of scholarship, Gordon S. Wood's Pulitzer Prize–winning book analyzes the social, political, and economic consequences of 1776. In The Radicalism of the American Revolution, Wood depicts not just a break with England, but the rejection of an entire way of life: of a society with feudal dependencies, a politics of patronage, and a world view in which people were divided between the nobility and "the Herd."
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According to veterinarian and journalist Mark Walters, we are contributing to - if not overtly causing - some of the scariest epidemics of our time. Through human stories and cutting-edge science, Walters explores the origins of seven diseases: Mad Cow Disease, HIV/AIDS, Salmonella DT104, Lyme Disease, Hantavirus, West Nile, and new strains of flu. He shows that they originate from manipulation of the environment, from emitting carbon and clear-cutting forests to feeding naturally herbivorous cows “recycled animal protein.”
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
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Dee Brown's eloquent, meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the 19th century uses council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions. Brown allows great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, and other tribes to tell us in their own words of the battles, massacres, and broken treaties that finally left them demoralized and defeated.
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And the Band Played On
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- De: Randy Shilts
- Narrado por: Victor Bevine
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 903
By the time Rock Hudson's death in 1985 alerted all America to the danger of the AIDS epidemic, the disease had spread across the nation, killing thousands of people and emerging as the greatest health crisis of the 20th century. America faced a troubling question: What happened? How was this epidemic allowed to spread so far before it was taken seriously?
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The subtitle says it all!
- De January Johnson en 03-19-13
De: Randy Shilts
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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. Doctors, parents, and health officials were at a loss to explain why this formerly unheard-of disease began paralyzing so many children. Why did this disease start to become such a horrible problem during the late 1800s? Why did it affect children more often than adults? Why was it originally called teething paralysis by mothers and their doctors?
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Root Cause
- De Circlekay1 Gulfport MS en 10-24-19
De: Forrest Maready
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The Ghost Map
- De: Steven Johnson
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 8 h y 38 m
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This is a thrilling historical account of the worst cholera outbreak in Victorian London and a brilliant exploration of how Dr. John Snow's solution revolutionized the way we think about disease, cities, science, and the modern world.
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It was okay until the end
- De Matthew Groom en 12-04-08
De: Steven Johnson
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A Midwife’s Tale
- The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
- De: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
- Narrado por: Susan Ericksen
- Duración: 15 h y 42 m
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Drawing on the diaries of one woman in 18th-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and sexual mores of the New England frontier. Between 1785 and 1812, a midwife and healer named Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her arduous work (in 27 years she attended 816 births) as well as her domestic life in Hallowell, Maine.
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drew me in
- De Dis Carded en 12-22-17
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No Ordinary Time
- Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
- De: Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 39 h y 14 m
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No Ordinary Time describes how the isolationist and divided United States of 1940 was unified under the extraordinary leadership of Franklin Roosevelt to become the preeminent economic and military power in the world.
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Great at 1.5 speed
- De Brett en 01-04-13
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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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The extraordinary Siddhartha Mukherjee has written a biography of the gene as deft, brilliant, and illuminating as his extraordinarily successful biography of cancer. Weaving science, social history, and personal narrative to tell us the story of one of the most important conceptual breakthroughs of modern times, Mukherjee animates the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It's a Wonderful Book
- De JKC en 06-02-16
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Polio
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-03-23
Comprehensive history
I wanted to learn about polio and its history for a research project, so this was a perfect book for that. It can be a little dry at times just because of the nature of the subject matter - there's a lot of background needed to really understand the history. I did space out at times, but I don't fault the book for that. It was interesting enough to listen to on a long drive without putting me to sleep. I learned a lot, which is what I set out to do.
In the US today, we take for granted that we won't get polio. It gave me new understanding and appreciation for how far medicine has come in 100 years. When I was a child I knew several older people who still suffered effects of polio. We probably all knew someone. It's not an issue in my generation, but it was really not that long ago.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-02-19
great read
loved it really learned alot about a topic in history I've always been fascinated with
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- Sandi
- 11-13-17
Fascinating
This Registered Dietitian and her Microbiologist husband (both born in the 50's) truly enjoyed this audiobook - the science, the history, and the "my parents must have been scared to death of this thing I have never had to fear in my lifetime" moments. Such thorough research but not dry at all - fascinating listen!
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-22-22
Terrific book on the American history of Polio
Very much enjoyed listening to this book and learning some American history along the way..
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- Linda
- 08-21-07
Wonderful health history!
I thoroughly enjoyed this intriguing book! We should never forget the endelible mark that has been left on our past from this disease!
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- Marie1981
- 01-07-21
Right now, everyone should read this book.
The book is interesting, well written and extremely well researched. I learned many things that I didn't know but, most importantly, I learned that what we are going through now with Covid 19 is certainly not unique in American history. Along with The Great Influenza, about the 1918 flu pandemic, I was amazed at the many similarities between those times and what we are facing now, on every level. Both books are definitely worth reading. We will get through this. They did!
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- eliza8
- 12-10-11
Extraordinarily Researched
Oshinsky's book is thoroughly researched and documented. A compelling and comprehensive history of Polio.
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-22-21
great book
important piece of history well written well performed. great backdrop for understanding current policy. loved it.
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- Lisa Balestrini
- 10-19-21
Fascinating story!
This historical account delves deep into the personal, scientific, and political fight to eradicate a devastating disease.
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- Darko
- 11-29-16
Awful narration
The story is so so interesting but with too much details so it's get boring. And narration is just awful, voice of narrator is irritating.
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