The Making of Moder Medicine covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of original sources from diaries, medical journals and stage satires to shed light on the experiences of physicians, surgeons, nurses and patients.
From classical beliefs about illness that would dominate medical thinking for centuries, through to the rise of the great hospitals and the work of the Renaissance anatomists, this fascinating and entertaining series reveals how, in the early 19th Centuriy, modern scientific medicine was born out of a medical "Big Bang" erupting from the white heat of the French Revolution, which would lead to clinical medicine as we know it today.
Written and presented by Andrew Cunningham, an authority on social and scientific medical history, it includes a wide variety of highly illustrative extracts read by acclaimed actors including Tamsin Greig, Annette Badland, David Rintoul and Peter Capaldi.
Whether you're interested in what it was like to be ill in earlier times, the emergence of women in medicine, the advent of the stethoscope, or the development of antibiotic treatment, this series offers an entertaining and thought-provoking insight into these and many other medical issues.
Author : Wendy McElroy
Narrator : Harry Reasoner, Peter Hackes, and Richard C. Hottelet
Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc
Length : 3 hours
Categories : Pre 1900 20th Century British Social & Economic
Price : $12.95
The "isle of poets and scholars" has known almost constant warfare for centuries. In 1920, it was divided into North and South; yet this purely political solution left a religious and cultural schi... View...
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Author : Simon Winchester
Narrator : Simon Winchester
Published By : Harper Collins US
Length : 7 hours
Categories : American 20th Century Social & Economic
Price : $29.95 $19.95
The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of Americas relentless expansion View...
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Author : Mark Crispin Miller
Narrator : Mark Crispin Miller
Published By : Audio Evolution LLC
Length : 1 hour 30 minutes
Categories : American 20th Century Social & Economic Knowledge & Learning
Price : $9.95
The political story the media was afraid to touch. The story of how the "Right" stole... View...
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Author : Richard Fawkes
Narrator : Kim Criswell
Published By : Select Music & Distribution
Length : 5 hours 15 minutes
Categories : Social & Economic Music Related Music Related
Price : $18.75
An enthralling story - told with nearly 100 famous musical extracts. View...
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Author : Patricia Cornwell
Narrator : Lorelei King
Published By : Harper Collins UK
Length : 3 hours 34 minutes
Categories : True Crime Social & Economic True Crime
Price : $12.75
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Written By : Pete McCarthy
Narrated By : Pete McCarthy
Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks
Length : 2 hours
Type : Autobiography Biographical Travel
Price : $16.75
The audio of the million-selling book - Pete McCarthy's hilarious journey in search of his Irish roots.
McCarthy's tale of his hilarious trip around Ireland has gained thousands of fans all over the world.
Pete was born in Warrington to an Irish mother and an English father and spent happy summer holidays in Cork. Years later, reflecting on the many places he has visited as a travel broadcaster, Pete admits that he feels more at home in Ireland than anywhere. To find out whether this is due to rose-coloured spectacles or to a deeper tie with the country of his ancestors, Pete sets off on a trip around Ireland and discovers that it has changed in surprising ways.
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