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Medical Bondage

Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology

by Deirdre Cooper Owens ...

Narrated by Allyson Johnson ...

Unabridged

5 hours 39 min

The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimental caesarean sections, ovariotomies, and obstetric fistula repairs primarily on poor and powerless women. Medical Bondage breaks new ground by exploring how and why physicians denied ... Read more

$15.99 USD

The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimental caesarean sections, ovariotomies, and obstetric fistula repairs primarily on poor and powerless women. Medical Bondage breaks new ground by exploring how and why physicians denied
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No More Tears

The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson

by Gardiner Harris ...

Narrated by Gardiner Harris ...

Unabridged

14 hours 23 min

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An explosive, deeply reported exposé of Johnson & Johnson, one of America’s oldest and most trusted pharmaceutical companies—from an award-winning investigative journalist“A damning portrait.”—Associated Press**“A page-turning drama that raises life-or-death questions about the world’s largest healthcare conglomerate.”—Jonathan Eig, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of ... Read more

$26.99 USD

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An explosive, deeply reported exposé of Johnson & Johnson, one of America’s oldest and most trusted pharmaceutical companies—from an award-winning investigative journalist“A damning portrait.”—Associated Press**“A page-turning drama that raises life-or-death questions about the world’s largest healthcare conglomerate.”—Jonathan Eig, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of
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Control

The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics

by Adam Rutherford ...

Narrated by Greg Patmore ...

Unabridged

7 hours 29 min

How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years?Control is a book about eugenics, what geneticist Adam Rutherford calls “a defining idea of the twentieth century.” Inspired by Darwin’s ideas about evolution, eugenics arose in Victorian England as a theory for molding the British population, and quickly spread to America, where it was embraced by presidents, ... Read more

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How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years?Control is a book about eugenics, what geneticist Adam Rutherford calls “a defining idea of the twentieth century.” Inspired by Darwin’s ideas about evolution, eugenics arose in Victorian England as a theory for molding the British population, and quickly spread to America, where it was embraced by presidents,
... Read more
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The Sadness Business

by Patrick Landman ...

Narrated by Alan Cook ...

Unabridged

2 hours 43 min

Have you lost a loved one? Your sadness becomes depression. Your child is a little too lively? He or she may be a danger to society. Do you have a penchant for cake? You have a psychiatric disorder. The new standard way of thinking about mental health, dictated by the publication of an international guide, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, is authorian and overshadows ... Read more

$11.99 USD

Have you lost a loved one? Your sadness becomes depression. Your child is a little too lively? He or she may be a danger to society. Do you have a penchant for cake? You have a psychiatric disorder. The new standard way of thinking about mental health, dictated by the publication of an international guide, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, is authorian and overshadows
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Life Lived Chronically, A

Memoir of a DES Daughter

by Claire R. Silverstone-Bright ...

Narrated by Kimberly Rog ...

Unabridged

8 hours 26 min

A Life Lived Chronically: Memoir of a DES Daughter is a compelling and emotionally resonant memoir written by Claire R. Silverstone-Bright, brought to life through the narration of Kimberly Rog and published by Panda Publishing Agency UK.Long before her birth, Claire’s life was already influenced by diethylstilbestrol (DES), a drug once widely prescribed to pregnant women and promoted as a ... Read more

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A Life Lived Chronically: Memoir of a DES Daughter is a compelling and emotionally resonant memoir written by Claire R. Silverstone-Bright, brought to life through the narration of Kimberly Rog and published by Panda Publishing Agency UK.Long before her birth, Claire’s life was already influenced by diethylstilbestrol (DES), a drug once widely prescribed to pregnant women and promoted as a
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Diagnostic Revolution, The: How AI is Transforming Healthcare

by S Williams ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Madison G ...

Unabridged

2 hours 26 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In an era where technology is reshaping the foundations of medicine, The Diagnostic Revolution delves into the transformative power of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare. This groundbreaking book explores how AI in healthcare is revolutionizing medical diagnostics, from enhancing predictive analytics in medicine to improving patient outcomes ... Read more

$10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In an era where technology is reshaping the foundations of medicine, The Diagnostic Revolution delves into the transformative power of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare. This groundbreaking book explores how AI in healthcare is revolutionizing medical diagnostics, from enhancing predictive analytics in medicine to improving patient outcomes
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Science, Religion, and Ethics in Twenty-First Century Biomedical Discoveries: Which Way Is Forward?

by Kevin FitzGerald ...

Narrated by Kevin FitzGerald ...

Series series Learn25: Science & Technology
Unabridged

9 hours 57 min

What is human? Can the promise of great scientific discoveries be reconciled with traditional notions of God and ethics? Are we capable of using biotechnology to better the human condition? How can science, religion and ethics be used to inform our decisions? What will an increasingly sophisticated understanding of genetics mean for healthcare, our understanding of free will?Advances in 21st ... Read more

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What is human? Can the promise of great scientific discoveries be reconciled with traditional notions of God and ethics? Are we capable of using biotechnology to better the human condition? How can science, religion and ethics be used to inform our decisions? What will an increasingly sophisticated understanding of genetics mean for healthcare, our understanding of free will?Advances in 21st
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Medical Apartheid

The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

by Harriet A. Washington ...

Narrated by Ron Butler ...

Unabridged

19 hours 2 min

Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. Starting with the earliest encounters between black Americans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, it details the ways both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted without their knowledge—a tradition that continues today ... Read more

$23.99 USD

Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. Starting with the earliest encounters between black Americans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, it details the ways both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted without their knowledge—a tradition that continues today
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What Cannot Be Undone

True Stories of a Life in Medicine

by Walter M. Robinson ...

Narrated by Daniel Thomas May ...

Unabridged

5 hours 46 min

In his award-winning debut essay collection, What Cannot Be Undone, Walter M. Robinson shares surprising stories of illness and medicine that do not sacrifice hard truth for easy dramatics. These true stories are filled with details of difficult days and nights in the world of high-tech medical care, and they show the ongoing struggle in making critical decisions with no good answer. This ... Read more

$15.99 USD

In his award-winning debut essay collection, What Cannot Be Undone, Walter M. Robinson shares surprising stories of illness and medicine that do not sacrifice hard truth for easy dramatics. These true stories are filled with details of difficult days and nights in the world of high-tech medical care, and they show the ongoing struggle in making critical decisions with no good answer. This
... Read more
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Love Drugs

The Chemical Future of Relationships

by Brian D. Earp, Julian Savulescu ...

Narrated by Brian D. Earp ...

Unabridged

7 hours 10 min

Is there a pill for love? What about an "anti-love drug," to help us get over an ex? This book argues that certain psychoactive substances, including MDMA—the active ingredient in Ecstasy—may help ordinary couples work through relationship difficulties and strengthen their connection. Others may help sever an emotional connection during a breakup. These substances already exist, and they have ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Is there a pill for love? What about an "anti-love drug," to help us get over an ex? This book argues that certain psychoactive substances, including MDMA—the active ingredient in Ecstasy—may help ordinary couples work through relationship difficulties and strengthen their connection. Others may help sever an emotional connection during a breakup. These substances already exist, and they have
... Read more
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Genetics in the Madhouse

The Unknown History of Human Heredity

by Theodore M. Porter ...

Narrated by Mike Chamberlain ...

Unabridged

14 hours 1 min

In the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Almost from the beginning, they pointed to heredity as the most important of these causes. As doctors and state officials steadily lost faith in the capacity of asylum care to stem the terrible increase of insanity, they began emphasizing ... Read more

$30.99 USD

In the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Almost from the beginning, they pointed to heredity as the most important of these causes. As doctors and state officials steadily lost faith in the capacity of asylum care to stem the terrible increase of insanity, they began emphasizing
... Read more
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Overdiagnosed

Making People Sick in Pursuit of Health

by H. Gilbert Welch, MD, Steven Woloshin, MD, Lisa M. Schab, LCSW ...

Narrated by Sean Runnette ...

Unabridged

9 hours 37 min

Going against the conventional wisdom reinforced by the medical establishment and Big Pharma that more screening is the best preventative medicine, Dr. Gilbert Welch builds a compelling counterargument that what we need are fewer, not more, diagnoses. Documenting the excesses of American medical practice that labels far too many of us as sick, Welch examines the social, ethical, and economic ... Read more

$23.99 USD

Going against the conventional wisdom reinforced by the medical establishment and Big Pharma that more screening is the best preventative medicine, Dr. Gilbert Welch builds a compelling counterargument that what we need are fewer, not more, diagnoses. Documenting the excesses of American medical practice that labels far too many of us as sick, Welch examines the social, ethical, and economic
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The Human Gene Editing Debate

by John H. Evans ...

Narrated by Victor Bevine ...

Unabridged

5 hours 17 min

In 2018 the first genetically modified babies were reportedly born in China, made possible by the invention of CRISPR technology in 2012. This controversial advancement overturned the pre-existing moral consensus, which had held for over fifty years before: while gene editing an adult person was morally acceptable, modifying babies, and thus subsequent generations, crossed a significant moral line ... Read more

$15.99 USD

In 2018 the first genetically modified babies were reportedly born in China, made possible by the invention of CRISPR technology in 2012. This controversial advancement overturned the pre-existing moral consensus, which had held for over fifty years before: while gene editing an adult person was morally acceptable, modifying babies, and thus subsequent generations, crossed a significant moral line
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The Case Against Perfection

by Michael J. Sandel ...

Narrated by Pete Cross ...

Unabridged

2 hours 44 min

Breakthroughs in genetics present us with a promise and a predicament. The promise is that we will soon be able to treat and prevent a host of debilitating diseases. The predicament is that our newfound genetic knowledge may enable us to manipulate our nature?to enhance our genetic traits and those of our children. Although most people find at least some forms of genetic engineering disquieting, ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Breakthroughs in genetics present us with a promise and a predicament. The promise is that we will soon be able to treat and prevent a host of debilitating diseases. The predicament is that our newfound genetic knowledge may enable us to manipulate our nature?to enhance our genetic traits and those of our children. Although most people find at least some forms of genetic engineering disquieting,
... Read more
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Better Never to Have Been

The Harm of Coming into Existence

by David Benatar ...

Narrated by Dennis Kleinman ...

Unabridged

7 hours 26 min

Most people believe that they were either benefited or at least not harmed by being brought into existence. Thus, if they ever do reflect on whether they should bring others into existence—rather than having children without even thinking about whether they should—they presume that they do them no harm. Better Never to Have Been challenges these assumptions. David Benatar argues that coming into ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Most people believe that they were either benefited or at least not harmed by being brought into existence. Thus, if they ever do reflect on whether they should bring others into existence—rather than having children without even thinking about whether they should—they presume that they do them no harm. Better Never to Have Been challenges these assumptions. David Benatar argues that coming into
... Read more
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WESSEX POEMS (UNABRIDGED)

by Thomas HARDY ...

Narrated by Zackary Richard ...

Unabridged

2 hours 6 min

A collection of poetry by Thomas Hardy, some of which were previously published or adapted into his prose works. - Summary by Libby Gohn ... Read more

$4.99 USD

A collection of poetry by Thomas Hardy, some of which were previously published or adapted into his prose works. - Summary by Libby Gohn
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Искусственный интеллект в медицине: Как умные технологии меняют подход к лечению

by Эрик Тополь, Эрик Тополь ...

Narrated by Андрей Барабанщиков, Алекс Лайт ...

Unabridged

12 hours 41 min

Мир медицины стремительно меняется: на помощь традиционным врачебным методам приходит искусственный интеллект. Как внедрение новых технологий отразится на современной диагностике и лечении? Как будут взаимодействовать врач и пациент, если обработку данных возьмут на себя машины? Смогут ли пациенты влиять на ход и методы лечения своих заболеваний? Какие перспективы открывает использование ... Read more

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Мир медицины стремительно меняется: на помощь традиционным врачебным методам приходит искусственный интеллект. Как внедрение новых технологий отразится на современной диагностике и лечении? Как будут взаимодействовать врач и пациент, если обработку данных возьмут на себя машины? Смогут ли пациенты влиять на ход и методы лечения своих заболеваний? Какие перспективы открывает использование
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Frozen

My Journey Into the World of Cryonics, Deception, and Death

by Scott Baldyga, Larry Johnson ...

Narrated by William Dufris ...

Unabridged

12 hours 34 min

At first, the job as clinical director at Alcor Life Extension Foundation was an exciting change for veteran paramedic Larry Johnson: a well-funded research facility pushing the limits of modern biotech. But as he gained the trust of his eccentric coworkers and was promoted to acting COO, Larry was thrust into a nightmare world of scandalous controversy, gruesome practices, and deadly secrets.One ... Read more

$21.99 USD

At first, the job as clinical director at Alcor Life Extension Foundation was an exciting change for veteran paramedic Larry Johnson: a well-funded research facility pushing the limits of modern biotech. But as he gained the trust of his eccentric coworkers and was promoted to acting COO, Larry was thrust into a nightmare world of scandalous controversy, gruesome practices, and deadly secrets.One
... Read more
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The Dance of Life

The New Science of How a Single Cell Becomes a Human Being

by Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, Roger Highfield ...

Narrated by Shaina Summerville ...

Unabridged

8 hours 5 min

A renowned biologist's cutting-edge and unconventional examination of human reproduction and embryo researchScientists have long struggled to make pregnancy easier, safer, and more successful. In The Dance of Life, developmental and stem-cell biologist Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz takes us to the front lines of efforts to understand the creation of a human life. She has spent two decades unraveling ... Read more

$24.99 USD

A renowned biologist's cutting-edge and unconventional examination of human reproduction and embryo researchScientists have long struggled to make pregnancy easier, safer, and more successful. In The Dance of Life, developmental and stem-cell biologist Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz takes us to the front lines of efforts to understand the creation of a human life. She has spent two decades unraveling
... Read more
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Beyond the Buzz

A Modern Guide to Smart Cannabis Use

by Misty Lake ...

Narrated by AI Voice Diana Pena ...

Unabridged

4 hours 49 min

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. "Beyond the Buzz skillfully blends personal stories and well-researched data to shed light on the often overlooked aspects and benefits of cannabis use, presenting complex information in an accessible and engaging way that educates and empowers readers" ~ Paula Black, healing coach and author of Life, Cancer and God★★★★★Cannabis is transforming health and ... Read more

$6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. "Beyond the Buzz skillfully blends personal stories and well-researched data to shed light on the often overlooked aspects and benefits of cannabis use, presenting complex information in an accessible and engaging way that educates and empowers readers" ~ Paula Black, healing coach and author of Life, Cancer and God★★★★★Cannabis is transforming health and
... Read more
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Scarlet A

The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Ordinary Abortion

by Katie Watson ...

Narrated by Coleen Marlo ...

Unabridged

7 hours 39 min

Although Roe v. Wade identified abortion as a constitutional right forty-five years ago, it still bears stigma—a proverbial scarlet A. Millions of Americans have participated in or benefited from an abortion, but few want to reveal that they have done so. Approximately one in five pregnancies in the U.S. ends in abortion. Why is something so common, which has been legal so long, still a source of ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Although Roe v. Wade identified abortion as a constitutional right forty-five years ago, it still bears stigma—a proverbial scarlet A. Millions of Americans have participated in or benefited from an abortion, but few want to reveal that they have done so. Approximately one in five pregnancies in the U.S. ends in abortion. Why is something so common, which has been legal so long, still a source of
... Read more
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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

$32.99 USD

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
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Cash Cow

How the maternal body became a global commodity – and the hidden costs for women

by Alev Scott ...

Narrated by Alev Scott ...

Unabridged

7 hours 6 min

*A Radio 4 Book of the Week*'Captivating, mind-boggling and deeply disturbing' – Maureen Freely'Humane, thoughtful and urgent — this book will make you think, make you laugh, make you cry, but also make you burn with rage' – Dr Mary WellesleyA thought-provoking deep dive into the global fertility industry and the commodification of the maternal body__________Should surrogacy be a... ... Read more

$23.99 USD

*A Radio 4 Book of the Week*'Captivating, mind-boggling and deeply disturbing' – Maureen Freely'Humane, thoughtful and urgent — this book will make you think, make you laugh, make you cry, but also make you burn with rage' – Dr Mary WellesleyA thought-provoking deep dive into the global fertility industry and the commodification of the maternal body__________Should surrogacy be a...
... Read more
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Denying to the Grave

Why We Ignore the Science That Will Save Us

by Sara E. Gorman, Jack M. Gorman ...

Narrated by Rosemary Benson ...

Unabridged

17 hours 20 min

In Denying to the Grave, Sara Gorman and Jack Gorman explore the psychology of health science denial. Using several examples as case studies, they propose six key principles that may lead people to reject "accepted" health-related wisdom: the charismatic leader; fear of complexity; confirmation bias; fear of corporate and government conspiracies; causality and filling the ignorance gap; and the ... Read more

$24.99 USD

In Denying to the Grave, Sara Gorman and Jack Gorman explore the psychology of health science denial. Using several examples as case studies, they propose six key principles that may lead people to reject "accepted" health-related wisdom: the charismatic leader; fear of complexity; confirmation bias; fear of corporate and government conspiracies; causality and filling the ignorance gap; and the
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