Titles in Medical

A aguardada – e bem-humorada – autobiografia de um dos mais importantes pensadores de nossos tempos. Quando Oliver Sacks tinha doze anos, um professor escreveu em avaliação: "Sacks vai longe, se não for longe demais". Hoje está claro que ele jamais parou de avançar. Desde as primeiras...

Oliver Sacks apreende o drama da doença que o levou a morte de forma honesta e eloquente, em toda sua complexidade médica e humana. Durante os últimos meses de sua vida, Oliver Sacks escreveu uma série de ensaios nos quais explorou de maneira comovente seu percurso pessoal para concluir a...

'My first stray thought: cancer is a gift. I'm lucky to have it. What priceless material for a doctor-writer.' What lessons might cancer teach him before it finishes him off? Peter Goldsworthy asks, obliquely. A GP of forty years' practice, as well as one of Australia's most awarded and...

Yumiko Kadota was a young, gifted medical student - the top of her class - on her way to becoming an outstanding plastic and reconstructive surgeon. Fourteen years she'd studied and worked hard. She put in 70-hour weeks at the public hospital as a plastic surgery registrar, accepted everything...

'I just want to warn you. You're going to dive to the end of the cave. You're going to see these kids. They're all looking healthy and happy and smiley. Then, you're going to swim away, and they're probably all going to die.' For seventeen days, the world watched and held its breath as the Wild...

"Rachel Clarke's authentic narration achieves the most important thing in audio production. It allows the author's humanity to shine and her written words to be transformed into a moving listening experience...Whether end-of-life medicine is one of your interests or not, this audiobook will...

Inferno is the riveting memoir of a young mother who is separated from her newborn son and husband when she's involuntarily committed to a psychiatric ward in New Jersey after a harrowing bout of postpartum psychosis. This program is read by the author. When Catherine Cho and her husband set off...

This program is read by the author. A renowned neurologist shares the true stories of people unable to get a good night’s rest in The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep, a fascinating exploration of the symptoms and syndromes behind sleep disorders. For Dr...

Worst Jobs on the Frontline is a collection of the calls that stay with you — not just because they were bad, but because they were unforgettable. Based on real frontline experience, this audiobook brings together the full spectrum of emergency work: the tragic, the absurd, the darkly funny, and the quietly heartbreaking. These are the jobs that make crews laugh in disbelief, sit in silence afterwards, or replay moments long after the shift has ended.

Have you ever wondered what really happens behind the scenes of a high-stakes athletic program? In AT the End of the Bench, Dr. Robert Bradley draws on 35 years of experience to provide an unfiltered, literal guide to the world of athletic training. From the high school sidelines to the program director's office at Arkansas State University, this audiobook is the essential companion for anyone navigating the complex intersections of sports, education, and professional longevity. Dr.

سلسلة نجوم ساطعة.. شخصيات عالمية تقدم هذه السلسلة مجموعة من القصص التعليمية للأطفال بأسلوب لطيف وسهل.. شخصيات مبدعة برعت في شتى مجالات الحياة، تركوا آثار للعالم بأسره. نتمنى لكم رحلة استماع ممتعة

En este libro honesto, emotivo y profundamente humano, Gina Tinoco comparte su experiencia enfrentando el cáncer de colon desde una perspectiva real, vulnerable y llena de aprendizaje. A través de momentos difíciles, reflexiones personales y situaciones contadas con autenticidad y humor, Gina relata cómo el diagnóstico transformó su vida, sus relaciones y su manera de ver el mundo. Más que una historia sobre enfermedad, este audiolibro es un testimonio de resiliencia, esperanza, crecimiento personal y la importancia de vivir plenamente incluso en medio de la adversidad.

Una ricercatrice, ossessionata dalla paura di impazzire, intraprende un’indagine per rompere il silenzio che avvolge la storia della sua bisnonna Elisabeth, detta Betsy — una donna dichiarata schizofrenica e sottoposta a lobotomia negli anni ’50, una delle prime in Francia. Di lei nessuno parla: i figli hanno sempre taciuto, i nipoti ignorano quasi tutto di lei. Attraverso lettere, archivi ospedalieri e interviste ai discendenti, Adèle Yon ricompone l’esistenza di una donna brillante e ribelle, troppo viva per il suo tempo.

The Case of the Bitter Cure Scandal. Science. Subterfuge. Aspirin—the so-called “miracle drug”—has been a household name for over a century. But behind its rise lies a story of corporate backstabbing, legal warfare, and a medical mystery spanning generations. From its ancient origins in willow bark to Bayer’s secretive laboratories, The Case of the Bitter Cure unravels the bitter truth behind the world’s most famous painkiller. Who really discovered aspirin? Why did governments go to war over it? And how did a simple pill become one of the most controversial drugs in history?

Mut, Zuversicht, Selbstvertrauen: Das zeichnet Marianne Koch aus, und ihre alleinerziehende Mutter hat es ihr vorgelebt. Ihren Vater, den jüdischen Arzt Rudolf Schindler, der emigrieren musste, lernt sie erst als Erwachsene kennen. Da hat ihre Filmkarriere, der zuliebe sie ihr Medizinstudium unterbrach, sie schon nach Hollywood geführt. Doch ihre Passion gilt der Medizin.

The intimate, extraordinary biography of Dr. Margaret Morgan Lawrence, America’s first Black female psychoanalyst—written by her own daughter and featuring a new afterword Born in 1914 in New York City, raised in Vicksburg, Mississippi, Margaret was the only child of an Episcopal priest and...

Tired of the corporate grind and the limitations society placed upon her, Renee Bruns embarked on a radical escape: a year-long solo journey around the world. Her mission was simple—to rediscover her faith in humanity. What she found, however, was a profound exploration of herself, chronicled in RARE: One Woman’s Journey of Self-Discovery, Human Connection, and the Beauty of Being Different.

My Story: A Journey of Struggle, Faith, and RedemptionI grew up surrounded by poverty and addiction. The challenges that gripped my family were not unique in our community, but becoming a teenage father added another layer of responsibility and hardship at a time when I was still trying to find my own way. It was in these moments of pain, fear, and uncertainty that I began to experience the grace of God working in my life. By His grace, I found the strength to push forward. What the world saw as obstacles, God used as opportunities for growth.

Author Dally O. has come face to face with his own journey—and emerged victorious. Central to his story is the Cube, a powerful symbol representing memory, emotion, and identity. A Night in Tucumcari is a multidimensional tale of collapse, clarity, and transformation. As it rotates through the complexities of time, trauma, and triumph, Dally's journey becomes both mythic and grounded, intertwining raw personal truths with symbolic depth.

Just Jack is an unbelievable story of a boy who played truant for almost one year and a girl who left school when she was 14 yrs old. Strangely it began as a love letter to my family, and a legacy for future family generations. However, somewhere along the way it became a compelling story of our...