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From birth to death, a lyrical exploration of the role of transformation in human life.
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Reseñas de la Crítica
"Wonderful, written with a deep feeling for language. A writer-physician who sees the drama and beauty in human life." (Annie Dillard, author of An American Childhood and Pilgrim at Tinker Creek)
"What makes the book fun to read is not only the author's limpid anecdotes from his private practice, but also his abiding marvel at the body's endless expressions. Francis ranges freely and skillfully from the strange to the elemental... [he] always makes you think. Captivating medical narratives that fit well alongside those of Oliver Sachs, Atul Gawande, Jerome Groopman, and Berton Roueché." (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)
"A thoughtful exploration... Francis's wide-ranging experience and curiosity produce fascinating samples of medical and cultural approaches to human change." (Publishers Weekly)
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Great Book - Heavy on the History
- De Robert Ingalls en 03-16-17
De: Mark Sloan MD
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Heart
- A History
- De: Sandeep Jauhar
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 566
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 500
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 502
For centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was somehow the driver of emotion and the seat of the soul. As cardiologist and best-selling author Sandeep Jauhar tells in The Heart, it was only recently that we demolished age-old taboos and devised the transformative procedures that changed the way we live. Deftly alternating between historical episodes and his own work, Jauhar tells the colorful and little known story of the doctors who risked their careers and the patients who risked their lives to know and heal our most vital organ.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating Insight
- De Ironcharles en 10-27-18
De: Sandeep Jauhar
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When Breath Becomes Air
- De: Paul Kalanithi, Abraham Verghese - foreword
- Narrado por: Sunil Malhotra, Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 5 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 28,977
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 25,429
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 25,363
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Phenomenal book!
- De A. Potter en 01-16-16
De: Paul Kalanithi, y otros
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Falling into the Fire
- A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis
- De: Christine Montross
- Narrado por: Christine Montross
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 84
Falling into the Fire is psychiatrist Christine Montross's thoughtful investigation of the gripping patient encounters that have challenged and deepened her practice. Beautifully written, deeply felt, Falling into the Fire brings us inside the doctor’s mind, illuminating the grave human costs of mental illness as well as the challenges of diagnosis and treatment. At once rigorous and meditative, Falling into the Fire is an intimate portrait of psychiatry, allowing the reader to witness the humanity of the practice and the enduring mysteries of the mind.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Buy this book! and READ it
- De joyce en 08-15-13
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The Pain Chronicles
- Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering
- De: Melanie Thernstrom
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 151
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 63
Each of us will know physical pain in our lives, but none of us knows when it will come or how long it will stay. Today as much as 10 percent of the population of the United States suffers from chronic pain. It is more widespread, misdiagnosed, and undertreated than any major disease. While recent research has shown that pain produces pathological changes to the brain and spinal cord, many doctors and patients still labor under misguided cultural notions and outdated scientific dogmas.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Informative, well researched and nicely written
- De Nathan O'Hara en 08-21-10
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Everything in Its Place
- First Loves and Last Tales
- De: Oliver Sacks
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 155
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 137
From the best-selling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcase Sacks's broad range of interests - from his passion for ferns, swimming, and horsetails, to his final case histories exploring schizophrenia, dementia, and Alzheimer's.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Missing Sacks
- De Brandy en 12-02-19
De: Oliver Sacks
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Like a Mother
- A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
- De: Angela Garbes
- Narrado por: Roxana Ortega, Angela Garbes
- Duración: 7 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 696
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 605
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 601
What to listen to after What to Expect.... A badass, feminist, and personal deep-dive into the science and culture of pregnancy and early motherhood that debunks myths and dated assumptions, offering guidance and camaraderie to women navigating one of the biggest and most profound changes in their lives. Like most first-time mothers, Angela Garbes was filled with questions when she became pregnant. What exactly is a placenta? How does a body go into labor? Why is breast best? What are the signs and effects of postpartum depression?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Microchimerism - interesting at first, then profoundly healing
- De Emily Virgil en 09-10-18
De: Angela Garbes
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The Chick and the Dead
- Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors
- De: Carla Valentine
- Narrado por: Beverley A. Crick
- Duración: 8 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50
Using the most common postmortem process as the backbone of the narrative, The Chick and the Dead takes the listener through the process of an autopsy while also describing the history and changing cultures of our relationship with the dead. The book is full of vivid insight into what happens to our bodies in the end. Each chapter considers an aspect of an autopsy alongside an aspect of Carla's own life and work and touches on some of the more controversial aspects of our feelings toward death.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Dull
- De Leah en 08-19-17
De: Carla Valentine
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The Heart Healers
- The Misfits, Mavericks, and Rebels Who Created the Greatest Medical Breakthrough of Our Lives
- De: James Forrester MD
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 15 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 80
At one time heart disease was a death sentence. By the middle of the 20th century, it was killing millions, and, as with the Black Death centuries before, physicians stood helpless. Visionaries, though, had begun to make strides earlier. On September 7, 1895, Ludwig Rehn successfully sutured the heart of a living man with a knife wound to the chest for the first time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great review of the landmark achievements in Cardiology.
- De Trauma NP en 12-14-15
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Healing Hearts
- A Memoir of a Female Heart Surgeon
- De: Kathy Magliato
- Narrado por: Renée Raudman
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
Dr. Kathy Magliato is one of fewer than a dozen female heart surgeons practicing in the world today. She is also a member of an even more exclusive group - those surgeons who perform heart transplants. Healing Hearts is the story of the making of a surgeon who also calls herself a wife and mother.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Healing Hearts
- De Jean en 01-14-12
De: Kathy Magliato
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Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them)
- A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
- De: Sallie Tisdale
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 185
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 159
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 158
You get ready to die the way you get ready for a trip. Start by realizing you don't know the way. Listen to a few travel guides. Study the language, look at maps, gather equipment. Let yourself imagine what it will be like. Pack your bags. This book is one of those travel guides - a guide to preparing for your own death and the deaths of people close to you. The fact of death is hard to believe. Sallie Tisdale explores our fears and all the ways death and talking about death make us uncomfortable - but she also explores its intimacies and joys.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I thought I had more time...
- De Alyssa en 09-09-19
De: Sallie Tisdale
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Birth
- The Surprising History of How We Are Born
- De: Tina Cassidy
- Narrado por: Angela Starling
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 127
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 108
From evolution to the epidural and beyond, Tina Cassidy presents an intelligent, enlightening, and impeccably researched cultural history of how and why we're born the way we are. Women have been giving birth for millennia, but that's about the only constant in the final stage of the great process that is human reproduction. Why is it that every culture and generation seems to have its own ideas about the best way to give birth?
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4 out of 5 stars
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important historical work, fascinating and fun
- De RT en 02-24-16
De: Tina Cassidy
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Vagina Obscura
- An Anatomical Voyage
- De: Rachel E. Gross
- Narrado por: Siho Ellsmore
- Duración: 10 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 153
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 128
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 126
The Latin term for the female genitalia, pudendum, means “parts for which you should be ashamed”. Until 1651, ovaries were called female testicles. The fallopian tubes are named for a man. Named, claimed, and shamed: Welcome to the story of the female body, as penned by men. Today, a new generation of (mostly) women scientists is finally redrawing the map. With modern tools and fresh perspectives, they’re looking at the organs traditionally bound up in reproduction—the uterus, ovaries, vagina—and seeing within them a new biology of change and resilience.
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3 out of 5 stars
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poor narration
- De Jane en 08-23-22
De: Rachel E. Gross
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Rise and Shine
- The Path to Life
- De: Simon Lewis
- Narrado por: Kelsey Grammer
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 89
Crushed between a truck and a tree, Simon and his wife were both pronounced dead at the scene of a horrific car accident. Enduring a broken skull, jaw, arms, clavicle and pelvis, followed by a coma, Simon lives to tell his remarkable journey from tragedy to triumph.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing opportunities for healing!
- De Leah en 04-29-17
De: Simon Lewis
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In Shock
- My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope
- De: Dr. Rana Awdish
- Narrado por: Dr. Rana Awdish, Teri Schnaubelt
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 693
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 605
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 604
In Shock is a riveting first-hand account from a young critical care physician, who in the passage of a moment is transfigured into a dying patient. This transposition, coincidentally timed at the end of her medical training, instantly lays bare the vast chasm between the conventional practice of medicine and the stark reality of the prostrate patient.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Read this book!
- De CT en 11-08-17
De: Dr. Rana Awdish
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Under the Knife
- A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable Operations
- De: Arnold van de Laar, Andy Brown - translator
- Narrado por: Rich Keeble
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 258
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 222
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 223
From the story of the desperate man from 17th-century Amsterdam who grimly cut a stone out of his own bladder to Bob Marley's deadly toe, Under the Knife offers a wealth of fascinating and unforgettable insights into medicine and history via the operating room. What happens during an operation? How does the human body respond to being attacked by a knife, a bacterium, a cancer cell, or a bullet? And, as medical advances continuously push the boundaries of what medicine can cure, what are the limits of surgery?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Why did a surgeon need a fast horse?
- De India Clamp en 10-18-18
De: Arnold van de Laar, y otros
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The Undead
- Organ Harvesting, The Ice-Water Test, Beating Heart Cadavers - How Medicine Is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death
- De: Dick Teresi
- Narrado por: David Marantz
- Duración: 9 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 40
Important and provocative, The Undead examines why even with the tools of advanced technology, what we think of as life and death, consciousness and nonconsciousness, is not exactly clear - and how this problem has been further complicated by the business of organ harvesting.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Eye opening
- De Amy Giglio en 07-01-18
De: Dick Teresi
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The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind
- My Tale of Madness and Recovery
- De: Barbara K. Lipska, Elaine McArdle - contributor
- Narrado por: Emma Powell
- Duración: 6 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 915
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 821
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 817
In 2015, Barbara Lipska - a leading expert on the neuroscience of mental illness - was diagnosed with melanoma that had spread to her brain. Within months, her frontal lobe, the seat of cognition, began shutting down. She descended into madness, exhibiting dementia- and schizophrenia-like symptoms that terrified her family and coworkers. But miraculously, the immunotherapy her doctors had prescribed worked quickly. Just eight weeks after her nightmare began, Lipska returned to normal. With one difference: she remembered her brush with madness with exquisite clarity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Be Prepared To Feel Insane--
- De Gillian en 04-11-18
De: Barbara K. Lipska, y otros
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