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This comprehensive and gripping narrative, which received the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for history, 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.
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Wonderful
- De Patricia B Tripoli en 07-22-08
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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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Panic in Level 4
- Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science
- De: Richard Preston
- Narrado por: James Lurie
- Duración: 7 h y 49 m
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Bizarre illnesses and plagues that kill people in the most unspeakable ways. Obsessive and inspired efforts by scientists to solve mysteries and save lives. From The Hot Zone to The Demon in the Freezer and beyond, Richard Preston's best selling works have mesmerized readers everywhere by showing them strange worlds of nature they never dreamed of.
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WAIT! Maybe this isn't what you think....
- De Doug en 07-05-11
De: Richard Preston
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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
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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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Incredible thorough journey
- De Rachel Dewald en 03-22-11
De: Seth Mnookin
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The Demon Under The Microscope
- De: Thomas Hager
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 12 h y 14 m
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The Nazis discovered it. The Allies won the war with it. It conquered diseases, changed laws, and single-handedly launched the era of antibiotics. This incredible discovery was sulfa, the first antibiotic medication. In The Demon Under the Microscope, Thomas Hager chronicles the dramatic history of the drug that shaped modern medicine.
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Great Book!!!!!
- De Amazon Customer en 05-21-08
De: Thomas Hager
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The Demon in the Freezer
- A True Story
- De: Richard Preston
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 8 h y 53 m
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The first major bioterror event in the United States - the anthrax attacks in October 2001 - was a clarion call for scientists who work with "hot" agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons. In The Demon in the Freezer, his first nonfiction book since The Hot Zone, a number-one New York Times best seller, Richard Preston takes us into the heart of USAMRIID, the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
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Pretty interesting listening in a horrific way
- De S A en 09-19-03
De: Richard Preston
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- Horace
- 12-07-06
Interesting but Not Captivating
I’m very interested in the subject, so I expected to be more interested than I really was. Looking back on it I’m still not sure why I wasn’t more drawn to this book.
I think that the problem can be summarized in the following observation. It attempts to deal with the personal stories of individuals, which dulls the edge of what might otherwise be a more documentary or scientific style, and yet the character development isn’t sufficient to really bond with the individuals involved. In the end it’s neither a brilliant expozay nor an emotionally compelling drama. It dabbles in both, but commits to neither.
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- Rio Delta Wild
- 11-30-06
difficult to follow
The original editor of this book could have made the story much easier to follow. Perhaps explanatory introductions in the audio work might have helped. Jumps in focus from such topics as a CDC worker's pregnancy to disease outbreaks scattered around the world left me lurching from disease to disease, often uncertain as to when the topics had shifted from one disease to another. This is my 2nd listen, and I'm still perpetually confused, even with a basic understanding of most of the diseases covered.
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- Tim
- 07-23-05
Interesting Stuff - Only criticism is pacing
This is an interesting book in many ways, although it ended up being somewhat different than I anticipated. The story traces the history of the CDC and then gives a number of examples of epidemics discovered and/or dispelled. With titles like "AIDS - 1981, Los Angeles", "Polio - 1955, Atlanta" one can easily see how the book is organized.
Many of the chapters have very interesting information about the nature of the diseases. The chapters on Polio, Smallpox, Listeriosis & West Nile Virus were fascinating. For those of us born since the eradication of Polio, it was interesting to know, for example, how prevalent Polio was and when it attacked. I also did not realize what our nation's reaction was when the polio vaccine was first announced - very interesting!
I was also dumbfounded by the continuing poor public policy decisions that contribute to disease, both here and abroad. The chapter on staph infection (in 2003 in Los Angeles) highlights the dangers when political correctness and bowing to special interest groups result in abandoning common sense decisions about matters of life and death.
My only criticism of the book is that what is inherently a very suspense filled subject was not taken advantage of by the author (in my opinion). For example, the flow of the book could have been improved had the author started with a story about one of the epidemics (to grab your interest) and then gone back and addressed the history of the organization (and possibly in bite-sized chunks). As a result, those less diligent may abandon a very good book too early because their appetite for discovering the history of the organization was not whetted by the author.
This criticism is, in the end, fairly minor and for those who read a lot and are used to this kind of thing (think of Simon Winchester's "Krakatoa", which spent 1/2 of the book getting to the explosion) will weather it well and be rewarded by their diligence.
Good read!
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- Tim
- 04-18-19
Phantom Itches
I heard about this book from a Podcast that I listen to. They had an episode on the Measles epidemic that is going on. "Beating Back the Devil" was published in 2004, about 15 years ago. As a germ freak, I was scratching myself from phantom itches as I was reading this book. This book had concrete information on all outbreaks that we had in the past.
I have a friend that works for CDC. Whenever we meet up, I always cringe on what she is going to tell me to look out for. There are some things that you shouldn't know, but I've always gone toward to fear.
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- Laura
- 10-27-09
Almost excellent!
I enjoyed this book - I hadn't realized the worldwide role of the CDC and how it has changed over the years.
There are some parts where this is too much personal information about the workers. She spends time describing their physical appearance and personal histories, and then the rest of the essence of what is said about this is basically "their job is really stressful". Overall, these parts are brief and it is easy to focus on the more historical and fact based ideas.
The reader has a nice voice, but mispronounces words in a way that distracted me. She also seems to be reading the text for the first time, as her intonation sometimes sounds like a sentence has ended, but then she reads the rest of it. But she's not bad as far as readers go.
Overall, a fasicanting listen!
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- L.
- 03-04-06
Good to Know Info
If you're researching with a coming pandemic in mind, this book is a must.
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- K
- 05-11-14
Great Read on Training Disease Detectives
This book tracks the training of the public health service's disease detectives. It's like Dick Couch's The Warrior Elite for medicine. Fabulous. Along the way, you learn a lot about the tracking down of pathogens and the 2001 anthrax outbreak.
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- TBeck
- 07-31-15
Excellent stories. The reader needs help
The stories were fascinating. So interesting to hear about the different and that makes it have occurred and how the CD. I had a hard time with the person reading the book because she could not pronounce some of the words. I also was annoyed by the way she paused every time somebody said something and then change her voice and say "he said."
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- Son
- 10-23-18
Glad this story covered
The history of the EIS is well covered and given a nice dramatic flair. The reader mispronounces some things which as usual drove me nuts. Great purchase (would be great as an actual book as well)
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