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    • Written by: Rebecca Skloot
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release Date: 03-02-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells – taken without her knowledge – became a multimillion-dollar industry and one of the most important tools in medicine....

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    • The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, The Epidemic That Shaped Our History
    • Written by: Molly Caldwell Crosby
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release Date: 05-12-17
    • Language: English
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    • Compelling and terrifying, The American Plague depicts the story of yellow fever and its reign in this country - and in Africa, where even today it strikes thousands every year....

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    • How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
    • Written by: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release Date: 24-03-20
    • Language: English
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    • Narrating the story of a sea-change in housing policy and its dire impact on African Americans, Race for Profit reveals how the urban core was transformed into a new frontier of cynical extraction....

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    • How We Lost Our Health Care System
    • Written by: Robert W. Derlet
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release Date: 23-03-21
    • Language: English
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    • Over the past three decades, the once-efficient American health care system has evolved into a complex maze of monopolies and a racket of bureaucratic checks, approvals, denials, roadblocks, and detours....

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    • Ethics in Science
    • Written by: Scientific American
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release Date: 22-12-20
    • Language: English
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    • In Doing the Right Thing: Ethics in Science, we cover a wide range of areas in science and medicine where complicated ethical questions come to bear, including genomics and research where informed - and ethically sound - choices are the basis of many scientific studies.

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    • Brain Health in an Unhealthy Society
    • Written by: Peter J. Whitehouse, Daniel R. George
    • Narrated by: Luis Moreno
    • Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release Date: 09-11-21
    • Language: English
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    • For decades, researchers have chased a pharmaceutical cure for memory loss. But despite the fact that no disease-modifying biotech treatments have emerged, new research suggests that dementia rates have actually declined in the United States and Western Europe....

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    • The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
    • Written by: Nancy Bristow
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release Date: 09-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Between the years 1918 and 1920, influenza raged around the globe in the worst pandemic in recorded history, killing at least 50 million people, more than half a million of them Americans....

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    • Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19
    • Written by: John Fabian Witt
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release Date: 16-02-21
    • Language: English
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    • From yellow fever to smallpox to polio to AIDS to COVID-19, epidemics have prompted Americans to make choices and answer questions about their basic values and their laws....

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    • Jonathan Letterman, the Civil War Doctor Who Pioneered Battlefield Care
    • Written by: Scott McGaugh
    • Narrated by: Kyle Munley
    • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release Date: 01-07-13
    • Language: English
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    • The first full-length biography of the Civil War surgeon who, over the course of the war’s bloodiest battles - from Antietam to Gettysburg - redefined military medicine....

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    • The Failure of Health Care in Urban America
    • Written by: Laurie Kaye Abraham, David A. Ansell MD - foreword
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release Date: 21-12-21
    • Language: English
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    • Mama Might Be Better Off Dead immerses listeners in the lives of four generations of a poor, African-American family in the neighborhood, who are beset with the devastating illnesses that are all too common in America's inner-cities....

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    • An Insiders' Account of the Shocking Medical Experiment Conducted by Government Doctors Against African American Men
    • Written by: Fred D. Gray
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release Date: 26-01-21
    • Language: English
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    • In 1932, the US Public Health Service recruited 623 African American men from Macon County, Alabama, for a study of "the effects of untreated syphilis in the Negro male". For the next 40 years, these men were denied medical care for this potentially fatal disease....

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    • What We Need to Talk About When We Talk About Health
    • Written by: Sandro Galea
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release Date: 18-09-19
    • Language: English
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    • Americans spend more money on health than people anywhere else in the world. And what do they get for it? Statistically, not much. Americans today live shorter, less healthy lives than citizens of other rich countries, and these trends show no signs of letting up....

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    • The Global War on Counterfeit Drugs
    • Written by: Muhammad H. Zaman
    • Narrated by: Matthew Boston
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release Date: 14-08-18
    • Language: English
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    • The explosion of Internet commerce, coupled with globalization and increased pharmaceutical use, has led to an unprecedented vulnerability in the US drug supply. Bitter Pills will heighten the public's awareness about counterfeit drugs and critically examine possible solutions....

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    • How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy
    • Written by: Katherine M. Gehl, Michael E. Porter
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release Date: 21-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In The Politics Industry, Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter ingeniously apply the tools of business analysis - and Porter's distinctive Five Forces framework - to show how the political system functions just as every other competitive industry does....

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    • Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia
    • Written by: Elizabeth Catte
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release Date: 20-04-21
    • Language: English
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    • Between 1927 and 1979, more than 8,000 people were involuntarily sterilized in five hospitals across the state of Virginia. From this plain and terrible fact springs Elizabeth Catte's Pure America, a sweeping, unsparing history of eugenics in Virginia....

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    • Patient Safety and the Middle-Managing of American Medicine
    • Written by: Robert L. Wears, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release Date: 02-06-20
    • Language: English
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    • Still Not Safe is the story of the rise of the patient - safety movement - and how an "epidemic" of medical errors was derived from a reality that didn't support such a characterization....

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    • Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
    • Written by: Deirdre Cooper Owens
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release Date: 07-05-19
    • Language: English
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    • Medical Bondage moves between southern plantations and northern urban centers to reveal how 19th-century American ideas about race, health, and status influenced doctor-patient relationships in sites of healing like slave cabins, medical colleges, and hospitals....

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