Titoli in Medico
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He Wanted the Moon
- The Madness and Medical Genius of Dr. Perry Baird, and His Daughter's Quest to Know Him
- Di: Mimi Baird, Eve Claxton
- Letto da: Jane Alexander, Paul Boehmer, John Bedford Lloyd
- Durata: 6 ore e 36 min
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Soon to be a major motion picture, from Brad Pitt and Tony Kushner A Washington Post Best Book of 2015 A mid-century doctor's raw, unvarnished account of his own descent into madness, and his daughter's attempt to piece his life back together and make sense of her own. Texas-born and...
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He Wanted the Moon
- The Madness and Medical Genius of Dr. Perry Baird, and His Daughter's Quest to Know Him
- Letto da: Jane Alexander, Paul Boehmer, John Bedford Lloyd
- Durata: 6 ore e 36 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 17/02/2015
- Lingua: Inglese
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Crashing Through
- The Extraordinary True Story of the Man Who Dared to See
- Di: Robert Kurson
- Letto da: Christopher Evan Welch
- Durata: 6 ore e 2 min
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BONUS FEATURE: Exclusive interview with Robert Kurson and Michael May In his critically acclaimed bestseller Shadow Divers, Robert Kurson explored the depths of history, friendship, and compulsion. Now Kurson returns with another thrilling adventure–the stunning true story of one man’s...
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Crashing Through
- The Extraordinary True Story of the Man Who Dared to See
- Letto da: Christopher Evan Welch
- Durata: 6 ore e 2 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 15/05/2007
- Lingua: Inglese
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Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8
- A Young Man's Voice from the Silence of Autism
- Di: Naoki Higashida, KA Yoshida - translator, David Mitchell - translator
- Letto da: David Mitchell, Thomas Judd
- Durata: 3 ore e 47 min
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From the author of the bestselling The Reason I Jump, an extraordinary self-portrait of a young adult with autism “Essential reading for parents and teachers of those with autism who remain nonverbal.”—Temple Grandin Naoki Higashida was only thirteen when he wrote The Reason I Jump, a...
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Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8
- A Young Man's Voice from the Silence of Autism
- Letto da: David Mitchell, Thomas Judd
- Durata: 3 ore e 47 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 11/07/2017
- Lingua: Inglese
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Suffering the Silence
- Chronic Lyme Disease in an Age of Denial
- Di: Allie Cashel, Bernard Raxlen - introduction
- Letto da: Mandy Kaplan
- Durata: 5 ore e 54 min
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Allie Cashel has suffered from chronic Lyme disease for sixteen years—but much of the medical community refuses to recognize her symptoms as the result of infectious disease. In Suffering the Silence: Chronic Lyme Disease in an Age of Denial, Cashel paints a living portrait of what is often...
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Suffering the Silence
- Chronic Lyme Disease in an Age of Denial
- Letto da: Mandy Kaplan
- Durata: 5 ore e 54 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 15/08/2017
- Lingua: Inglese
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Further Confessions of a GP
- Di: Benjamin Daniels
- Letto da: Leighton Pugh
- Durata: 6 ore e 19 min
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Benjamin Daniels is angry. He is frustrated, confused, baffled and, quite frequently, very funny. He is also a GP. These are his confessions. Benjamin Daniels is back. He may be older, wiser and more experienced, but his patients are no less outrageous. Drawing on his time working as a medical...
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Further Confessions of a GP
- Letto da: Leighton Pugh
- Durata: 6 ore e 19 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 16/01/2014
- Lingua: Inglese
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Life's Work
- A Moral Argument for Choice
- Di: Dr. Willie Parker, Lisa Miller
- Letto da: Caz Harleaux
- Durata: 6 ore e 10 min
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In this “vivid and companionable memoir of a remarkable life” (The New Yorker), an outspoken, Christian reproductive justice advocate and abortion provider reveals his personal and professional journeys in an effort to seize the moral high ground on the question of choice and reproductive...
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Life's Work
- A Moral Argument for Choice
- Letto da: Caz Harleaux
- Durata: 6 ore e 10 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 04/04/2017
- Lingua: Inglese
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Every Patient Tells A Story
- Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
- Di: Lisa Sanders
- Letto da: Lisa Sanders
- Durata: 10 ore e 9 min
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A riveting exploration of the most difficult and important part of what doctors do, by Yale School of Medicine physician Dr. Lisa Sanders, author of the monthly New York Times Magazine column "Diagnosis," the inspiration for the hit Fox TV series House, M.D. "The experience of being ill can be...
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Every Patient Tells A Story
- Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
- Letto da: Lisa Sanders
- Durata: 10 ore e 9 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 11/08/2009
- Lingua: Inglese
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When Breath Becomes Air
- The powerful and moving memoir of a doctor, the global bestseller
- Di: Paul Kalanithi
- Letto da: Sunil Malhotra, Lucy Kalanithi
- Durata: 5 ore e 28 min
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Brought to you by Penguin. THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient...
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When Breath Becomes Air
- The powerful and moving memoir of a doctor, the global bestseller
- Letto da: Sunil Malhotra, Lucy Kalanithi
- Durata: 5 ore e 28 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 10/03/2016
- Lingua: Inglese
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A Thousand Naked Strangers
- A Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back
- Di: Kevin Hazzard
- Letto da: George Newbern
- Durata: 6 ore e 38 min
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A former paramedic’s "thrilling, captivating" (Booklist), and mordantly funny account of a decade spent as a first responder in Atlanta saving lives and connecting with the drama and occasional beauty that lies inside catastrophe. In the aftermath of 9/11 Kevin Hazzard felt that something was...
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A Thousand Naked Strangers
- A Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back
- Letto da: George Newbern
- Durata: 6 ore e 38 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 05/01/2016
- Lingua: Inglese
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An Unquiet Mind
- A Memoir of Moods and Madness
- Di: Kay Redfield Jamison
- Letto da: Kay Redfield Jamison
- Durata: 2 ore e 46 min
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER A deeply powerful memoir about bipolar illness that has both transformed and saved lives—with a new preface by the author. Dr. Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness; she has also experienced it firsthand. For even while she was...
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An Unquiet Mind
- A Memoir of Moods and Madness
- Letto da: Kay Redfield Jamison
- Durata: 2 ore e 46 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 12/01/2010
- Lingua: Inglese
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Blindsided
- Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir
- Di: Richard M. Cohen
- Letto da: Richard M. Cohen, Richard Ferrone
- Durata: 6 ore e 2 min
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A hopeful look at coping with the ravages of serious chronic illness by an accomplished journalist, a contributing columnist for the New York Times, and former senior producer of the CBS Evening News Richard Cohen, a veteran journalist, has lived with multiple sclerosis for 30 years. Diagnosed...
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Blindsided
- Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir
- Letto da: Richard M. Cohen, Richard Ferrone
- Durata: 6 ore e 2 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 03/03/2004
- Lingua: Inglese
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Dr. Mutter's Marvels
- A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine
- Di: Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
- Letto da: Erik Singer
- Durata: 8 ore e 54 min
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A mesmerizing biography of the brilliant and eccentric medical innovator who revolutionized American surgery and founded the country’s most famous museum of medical oddities Imagine undergoing an operation without anesthesia performed by a surgeon who refuses to sterilize his tools—or even...
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Dr. Mutter's Marvels
- A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine
- Letto da: Erik Singer
- Durata: 8 ore e 54 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 04/09/2014
- Lingua: Inglese
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The Rules of Inheritance
- Di: Claire Bidwell Smith
- Letto da: Claire Bidwell Smith
- Durata: 7 ore e 36 min
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A resonant memoir of the ways untimely good-byes echo through the years by a writer who has considered every nuance of grief. At age fourteen, Claire Bidwell Smith-an only child- learned that both of her parents had cancer. The fear of becoming a family of one before she came of age compels...
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The Rules of Inheritance
- Letto da: Claire Bidwell Smith
- Durata: 7 ore e 36 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 29/03/2012
- Lingua: Inglese
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Patient H.M.
- A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
- Di: Luke Dittrich
- Letto da: George Newbern
- Durata: 14 ore e 34 min
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“Oliver Sacks meets Stephen King”* in this propulsive, haunting journey into the life of the most studied human research subject of all time, the amnesic known as Patient H.M. For readers of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks comes a story that has much to teach us about our relentless...
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Patient H.M.
- A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
- Letto da: George Newbern
- Durata: 14 ore e 34 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 09/08/2016
- Lingua: Inglese
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The Encore
- A Memoir in Three Acts
- Di: Charity Tillemann-Dick
- Letto da: Charity Tillemann-Dick
- Durata: 10 ore e 44 min
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In this “heartrending, passionate, and surprisingly humorous account of the conjunction between art and death” (Andrew Solomon, New York Times bestselling author), acclaimed opera singer Charity Tillemann-Dick recounts her remarkable journey from struggling to draw a single breath to singing...
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The Encore
- A Memoir in Three Acts
- Letto da: Charity Tillemann-Dick
- Durata: 10 ore e 44 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 03/10/2017
- Lingua: Inglese
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Slow Medicine
- The Way to Healing
- Di: Victoria Sweet
- Letto da: Victoria Sweet
- Durata: 9 ore e 56 min
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"Wonderful... Physicans would do well to learn this most important lesson about caring for patients." —The New York Times Book Review Over the years that Victoria Sweet has been a physician, “healthcare” has replaced medicine, “providers” look at their laptops more than at their...
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Slow Medicine
- The Way to Healing
- Letto da: Victoria Sweet
- Durata: 9 ore e 56 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 17/10/2017
- Lingua: Inglese
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Crashing Through
- The Extraordinary True Story of the Man Who Dared to See
- Di: Robert Kurson
- Letto da: Doug Ordunio
- Durata: 10 ore e 12 min
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Blinded at age three, Mike May defied expectations by breaking world records in downhill speed skiing, joining the CIA, and becoming a successful inventor, entrepreneur, and family man. He had never yearned for vision. Then, in 1999, a chance encounter brought startling news: a revolutionary...
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Crashing Through
- The Extraordinary True Story of the Man Who Dared to See
- Letto da: Doug Ordunio
- Durata: 10 ore e 12 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 15/05/2007
- Lingua: Inglese
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On the Move
- A Life
- Di: Oliver Sacks
- Letto da: Dan Woren
- Durata: 11 ore e 52 min
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When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: “Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far.” It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move is...
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On the Move
- A Life
- Letto da: Dan Woren
- Durata: 11 ore e 52 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 28/04/2015
- Lingua: Inglese
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Into the Gray Zone
- A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death
- Di: Adrian Owen
- Letto da: Steve West
- Durata: 8 ore e 30 min
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In this “riveting read, meshing memoir with scientific explication” (Nature), a world-renowned neuroscientist reveals how he learned to communicate with patients in vegetative or “gray zone” states and, more importantly, he explains what those interactions tell us about the working of...
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Into the Gray Zone
- A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death
- Letto da: Steve West
- Durata: 8 ore e 30 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 20/06/2017
- Lingua: Inglese
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The Nurses
- A Year of Secrets, Drama, and Miracles with the Heroes of the Hospital
- Di: Alexandra Robbins
- Letto da: Alexandra Robbins
- Durata: 10 ore e 52 min
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Nursing is more than a career; it's a calling, and one of the most important fascinating, and dangerous professions in the world. As the frontline responders battling traumas, illnesses, and aggression from surprising sources, nurses are remarkable. Yet contemporary literature largely neglects...
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The Nurses
- A Year of Secrets, Drama, and Miracles with the Heroes of the Hospital
- Letto da: Alexandra Robbins
- Durata: 10 ore e 52 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 04/05/2016
- Lingua: Inglese
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