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The Emperor of All Maladies
- A Biography of Cancer
- De: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 22 h y 18 m
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The Emperor of All Maladies reveals the many faces of an iconic, shape-shifting disease that is the defining plague of our generation....
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Incredible
- De S.R.E. en 03-02-16
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- De: Rebecca Skloot
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 12 h y 30 m
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....
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The Secret Life of an American Cancer Cell
- De Cynthia en 08-10-13
De: Rebecca Skloot
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Overkill
- When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far
- De: Paul A. Offit
- Narrado por: Tim H. Dixon
- Duración: 7 h y 8 m
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An acclaimed medical expert and patient advocate offers an eye-opening look at many common and widely used medical interventions that have been shown to be far more harmful than helpful....
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fascinating
- De GS en 05-13-20
De: Paul A. Offit
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The Song of the Cell
- An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
- De: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Duración: 16 h y 3 m
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From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene, a #1 New York Times bestseller, comes his most spectacular book yet, an exploration of medicine and our radical new ability to manipulate cells....
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Beyond Words Wonderful
- De Lynn en 11-27-22
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Profiles in Mental Health Courage
- De: Patrick J. Kennedy, Stephen Fried
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller, Patrick J. Kennedy
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
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In 2015, Patrick J. Kennedy shared the story of his struggle with mental health and addiction in his bestselling memoir; now he reframes how we talk about mental well-being by sharing the powerful stories of others....
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Had little to do with mental health
- De John en 05-18-24
De: Patrick J. Kennedy, y otros
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Destiny of the Republic
- A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
- De: Candice Millard
- Narrado por: Paul Michael
- Duración: 9 h y 47 m
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James A. Garfield may have been the most extraordinary man ever elected president....
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Marvelous, Magnificent, Millard
- De Mel en 02-08-12
De: Candice Millard
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The Emperor of All Maladies
- A Biography of Cancer
- De: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 22 h y 18 m
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The Emperor of All Maladies reveals the many faces of an iconic, shape-shifting disease that is the defining plague of our generation....
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Incredible
- De S.R.E. en 03-02-16
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- De: Rebecca Skloot
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 12 h y 30 m
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....
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The Secret Life of an American Cancer Cell
- De Cynthia en 08-10-13
De: Rebecca Skloot
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Overkill
- When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far
- De: Paul A. Offit
- Narrado por: Tim H. Dixon
- Duración: 7 h y 8 m
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An acclaimed medical expert and patient advocate offers an eye-opening look at many common and widely used medical interventions that have been shown to be far more harmful than helpful....
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fascinating
- De GS en 05-13-20
De: Paul A. Offit
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The Song of the Cell
- An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
- De: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Duración: 16 h y 3 m
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From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene, a #1 New York Times bestseller, comes his most spectacular book yet, an exploration of medicine and our radical new ability to manipulate cells....
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Beyond Words Wonderful
- De Lynn en 11-27-22
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Profiles in Mental Health Courage
- De: Patrick J. Kennedy, Stephen Fried
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller, Patrick J. Kennedy
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
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In 2015, Patrick J. Kennedy shared the story of his struggle with mental health and addiction in his bestselling memoir; now he reframes how we talk about mental well-being by sharing the powerful stories of others....
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Had little to do with mental health
- De John en 05-18-24
De: Patrick J. Kennedy, y otros
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Destiny of the Republic
- A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
- De: Candice Millard
- Narrado por: Paul Michael
- Duración: 9 h y 47 m
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James A. Garfield may have been the most extraordinary man ever elected president....
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Marvelous, Magnificent, Millard
- De Mel en 02-08-12
De: Candice Millard
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- De: Thomas S. Kuhn
- Narrado por: Dennis Holland
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is essential listening for understanding the history, philosophy, and evolution of science....
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The problem is not with the book
- De Marcus en 08-09-09
De: Thomas S. Kuhn
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Invisible Labor
- The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section
- De: Rachel Somerstein
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
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An incisive yet personal look at the science and history of the most common surgery performed in America—the cesarean section, Invisible Labor is an exposé on the disturbing state of maternal medical care.
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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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Mukherjee animates the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices....
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It's a Wonderful Book
- De JKC en 06-02-16
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When Death Becomes Life
- Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
- De: Joshua D. Mezrich
- Narrado por: Josh Bloomberg
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
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At the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Joshua Mezrich creates life from loss, transplanting organs from one body to another. In this intimate, profoundly moving work, he illuminates the extraordinary field of transplantation that enables this kind of miracle to happen every day....
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Memoir and history, beautifully written
- De Bonny en 01-22-19
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Complications
- A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
- De: Atul Gawande
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
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A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine....
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FALLIBILITY, MYSTERY AND UNCERTAINTY
- De AnnH en 10-04-20
De: Atul Gawande
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Vital Organs
- De: Suzie Edge
- Narrado por: Suzie Edge
- Duración: 6 h y 48 m
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A journey through history's most famous limbs, organs, and appendages, from TikTok medical historian Dr Suzie Edge....
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Interesting, Educational, and Occasionally Funny
- De Tricia A. Hamblin en 01-08-24
De: Suzie Edge
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Better
- A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
- De: Atul Gawande
- Narrado por: John Bedford Lloyd
- Duración: 7 h y 34 m
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Atul Gawande explores how doctors strive for best performance in the face of obstacles that sometimes seem insurmountable - in Boston, India, Iraq, and in malpractice courtrooms....
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A MUST read . . .
- De Kathy in CA en 08-11-14
De: Atul Gawande
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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....
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Root Cause
- De Circlekay1 Gulfport MS en 10-24-19
De: Forrest Maready
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The Song of the Cell
- An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
- De: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrado por: Abhishek Sharma
- Duración: 18 h y 9 m
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene, The Song of The Cell is the third book in this extraordinary writer's exploration of what it means to be human....
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Boring, tedious, flowery endless stories
- De 964a5 en 12-13-23
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The Great Mortality
- An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
- De: John Kelly
- Narrado por: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Duración: 12 h y 55 m
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The Great Plague is one of the most compelling events in human history—even more so now, when the notion of plague has never loomed larger as a contemporary public concern....
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Endless Speculation and Contradiction
- De Greg en 04-20-24
De: John Kelly
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The Great Influenza
- The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
- De: John M. Barry
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 19 h y 26 m
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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....
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Great book but very disturbing...
- De Tim en 01-15-09
De: John M. Barry
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American Sirens
- The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
- De: Kevin Hazzard
- Narrado por: Gilbert Glenn Brown
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
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The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the world....
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Deep, eye-opening, educational, life-changing . . . dramatic and engaging . . .
- De The Flash en 01-21-23
De: Kevin Hazzard
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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
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In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of 19th-century surgery on the eve of profound transformation....
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Not one boring moment!
- De WRWF en 12-22-17
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Quackery
- A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
- De: Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 10 h y 29 m
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What won't we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth? Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine was dosed like Viagra....
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Computer-generated Narrator. Dated Humour.
- De Nemo en 12-28-18
De: Lydia Kang, y otros
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Get Well Soon
- History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
- De: Jennifer Wright
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 7 h y 44 m
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Throughout time, humans have been terrified and fascinated by the diseases history and circumstance have dropped on them....
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Didn't know syphilis could be so fascinating.
- De Kindle Customer en 02-09-17
De: Jennifer Wright
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Pox Romana
- The Plague That Shook the Roman World
- De: Colin Elliott
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 10 h y 59 m
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This audiobook gives a dramatic account of the Antonine plague, the mysterious disease that struck the Roman Empire at its pinnacle....
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Unlistenable because of the narrator
- De HWAG en 05-24-24
De: Colin Elliott
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A Body Made of Glass
- A Cultural History of Hypochondria
- De: Caroline Crampton
- Narrado por: Caroline Crampton
- Duración: 9 h y 23 m
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Caroline Crampton’s life was upended at the age of seventeen, when she was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a relatively rare blood cancer. After years of invasive treatment, she was finally given the all clear. But being cured of the cancer didn’t mean she felt well.
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Astonishing truths from someone who has been there
- De PMerrell en 05-07-24
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The Truth About Covid-19
- Exposing the Great Reset, Lockdowns, Vaccine Passports, and the New Normal
- De: Dr. Joseph Mercola, Ronnie Cummins
- Narrado por: Nolan Chase
- Duración: 7 h y 55 m
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Since early 2020, the world has experienced a series of catastrophic events - a global pandemic caused by a so-called novel coronavirus; international lockdowns and border closings causing widespread business closures, economic collapse, and massive unemployment....
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A must read
- De danithang en 05-07-21
De: Dr. Joseph Mercola, y otros
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And the Band Played On
- Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
- De: Randy Shilts
- Narrado por: Victor Bevine
- Duración: 31 h y 44 m
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And the Band Played On is both a tribute to these heroic people and a stinging indictment of the institutions that failed the nation so badly....
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The subtitle says it all!
- De Jan Mitchell Johnson en 03-19-13
De: Randy Shilts
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The Facemaker
- A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
- De: Lindsey Fitzharris
- Narrado por: Daniel Gillies
- Duración: 8 h y 15 m
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Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true story of a visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War’s injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgery....
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My favorite author
- De Dani en 06-07-22
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Anatomy of an Epidemic
- Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
- De: Robert Whitaker
- Narrado por: Ken Kliban
- Duración: 13 h y 57 m
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In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery....
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The author does not use a fair scientific approach
- De Michael en 08-15-10
De: Robert Whitaker
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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
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David Oshinsky 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....
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Fascinating
- De Jean en 12-14-16
De: David Oshinsky
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The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth
- And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine
- De: Thomas Morris
- Narrado por: Thomas Morris, Ruper Farley
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
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A puzzling series of dental explosions beginning in the 19th century is just one of many strange tales that have long lain undiscovered in the pages of old medical journals. Award-winning medical historian Thomas Morris delivers a remarkable, cringe-inducing collection of stories....
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Boring Toilet Humor
- De Nemo en 01-30-20
De: Thomas Morris
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Unwell Women
- Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
- De: Elinor Cleghorn
- Narrado por: Hanako Footman
- Duración: 14 h y 8 m
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A trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women’s health - from the earliest medical ideas about women’s illnesses to hormones and autoimmune diseases - brought together in a fascinating, sweeping narrative....
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Profound Read; A Sincere Stepping Stone to Understanding My Own Why
- De Nicole en 07-23-21
De: Elinor Cleghorn