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Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazis Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracl, Thomas Hager

The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazis Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracl

By Thomas Hager

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Fast-paced, suspenseful, and utterly satisfying, The Demon Under the Microscope is a sweeping history of the discovery of the first antibiotic and its dramatic effect on the world of medicine and... read more

Series of Unfortunate Events #8: The Hostile Hospital, Lemony Snicket

A Series of Unfortunate Events #8: The Hostile Hospital

By Lemony Snicket

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Dear Listener, This audio is the only one which describes every last detail of the Baudelaire children's miserable stay at Heimlich Hospital, which makes it one of the most dreadful audios in the... read more

Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery, D.T. Max

The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery

By D.T. Max

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For two hundred years a noble Venetian family has suffered from an inherited disease that strikes their members in middle age, stealing their sleep, eating holes in their brains, and ending their... read more

Weekends at Bellevue, Julie Holland

Weekends at Bellevue

By Julie Holland

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His name was Joshua Silver. He was twenty three years old, educated, and had an impressive vocabulary. The NYPD had found Joshua Silver naked in Times Square, barking like a dog. It was just... read more

Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War, Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg, William Broad

Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War

By Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg, William Broad

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Deadly germs sprayed in shopping malls, bomblets spewing anthrax sporesover battlefields, tiny vials of plague scattered in Times Square -- these are the poor man's hydrogen bombs, hideous weapons of... read more

Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook: What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us about Loss, Love, and, Bruce Duncan Perry, Maia Szalavita

The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook: What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us about Loss, Love, and

By Bruce Duncan Perry, Maia Szalavita

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Child psychiatrist Dr. Bruce Perry tells the stories of children who have endured unimaginable horror and shares his innovative methods for helping to ease their pain in this deeply informed and... read more

Super Immunity: A Breakthrough Program to Boost the Body's Defenses and Stay Healthy All Year Round, Joel Fuhrman

Super Immunity: A Breakthrough Program to Boost the Body's Defenses and Stay Healthy All Year Round

By Joel Fuhrman

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Why do some of us get sick with greater frequency than others? What makes us more susceptible to illness? Are we doomed to get sick when our coworkers and family members do? Is there a secret to... read more

When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress, Gabor Maté

When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress

By Gabor Maté

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In When The Body Says No, physician and writer Gabor Maté explores the mind-body link and the connection between stress and disease. Can a person literally die of loneliness? Is there a... read more

How Doctors Think, Jerome Groopman, M.D.

How Doctors Think

By Jerome Groopman, M.D.

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A New Yorker staff writer, bestselling author, and professor at Harvard Medical School unravels the mystery of how doctors figure out the best treatments---or fail to do so. This book describes the... read more

Switching Time: A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities, Richard Baer

Switching Time: A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities

By Richard Baer

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Switching Time is the first story centering on multiple personality disorder to be told by the treating physician. It is the incredible saga of a young woman stranded in unimaginable darkness who, in... read more