Surgery History
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Blood and Guts
- A History of Surgery
- By: Richard Hollingham
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making limb transplants, face transplants, and a host of other previously undreamed-of operations possible. But getting here has not been a simple story of medical progress. In Blood and Guts, veteran science writer Richard Hollingham weaves a compelling narrative from the key moments in surgical history. We have a ringside seat in the operating theater of University College Hospital in London as world-renowned Victorian surgeon Robert Liston performs a remarkable amputation in 30 seconds - from first cut to final stitch.
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Fascinating
- By Sigrin on 25-09-24
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Blood and Guts
- A History of Surgery
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 28-05-19
- Language: English
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Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making limb transplants, face transplants, and a host of other previously undreamed-of operations possible. But getting here has not been a simple story of medical progress....
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The Butchering Art
- Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
- By: Lindsey Fitzharris
- Narrated by: Sam Woolf
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Butchering Art, historian Lindsey Fitzharris re-creates a critical turning point in the history of medicine, when Joseph Lister transformed surgery from a brutal, harrowing practice to the safe, vaunted profession we know today.
Victorian operating theatres were known as 'gateways of death', Fitzharris reminds us, since half of those who underwent surgery didn't survive the experience. This was an era when a broken leg could lead to amputation, and surgeons were still known to ransack cemeteries to find cadavers.
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Animal lovers:B Beware
- By L. Reeves on 10-10-19
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The Butchering Art
- Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
- Narrated by: Sam Woolf
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 17-10-17
- Language: English
- Historian Lindsey Fitzharris re-creates a critical turning point in the history of medicine, when Joseph Lister transformed surgery from a brutal, harrowing practice to a safe, vaunted profession....
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Hot Lights, Cold Steel
- Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years
- By: Michael J. Collins MD
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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When Michael Collins decided to become a surgeon, he was totally unprepared for the chaotic life of a resident at a major hospital. A natural overachiever, Collins' success in college and medical school led to a surgical residency at one of the most respected medical centers in the world, the famed Mayo Clinic. But compared to his fellow residents, Collins felt inadequate and unprepared.
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An enjoyable and insightful experience.
- By Liz on 10-02-20
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Hot Lights, Cold Steel
- Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 14-02-17
- Language: English
- When Michael Collins decided to become a surgeon, he was totally unprepared for the chaotic life of a resident at a major hospital....
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Under the Knife
- A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable Operations
- By: Arnold van de Laar
- Narrated by: Rich Keeble
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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The history of surgery in 28 famous operations - from Louis XIV to JFK, and from Einstein to Houdini. In Under the Knife, surgeon Arnold Van de Laar uses his own experience and expertise to tell the witty history of the past, present and future of surgery. 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 infection, Under the Knife offers all kinds of fascinating and unforgettable insights into medicine and history.
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Amazing stories
- By Lynette Crisp on 12-04-18
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Under the Knife
- A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable Operations
- Narrated by: Rich Keeble
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 11-01-18
- Language: English
- Arnold Van de Laar uses his own experience and expertise to tell the witty history of the past, present and future of surgery....
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War Doctor
- Surgery on the Front Line
- By: David Nott
- Narrated by: David Nott
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
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For more than 25 years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as a general and vascular surgeon with the NHS to volunteer in some of the world’s most dangerous war zones. From Sarajevo under siege in 1993 to clandestine hospitals in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, he has carried out lifesaving operations and field surgery in the most challenging conditions, and with none of the resources of a major London teaching hospital.
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Inspiring
- By Kirstine on 07-03-19
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War Doctor
- Surgery on the Front Line
- Narrated by: David Nott
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 21-02-19
- Language: English
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For more than 25 years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as a general and vascular surgeon with the NHS to volunteer in some of the world’s most dangerous war zones....
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The Knife’s Edge
- The Heart and Mind of a Cardiac Surgeon
- By: Stephen Westaby
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
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Although Professor Stephen Westaby was born with the necessary coordination and manual dexterity, it was a head trauma sustained during university that gifted him the qualities of an exceptional heart surgeon: qualities that are frequently associated with psychopathy. His 35-year career has been characterised by fearlessness and ruthless ambition, leaving empathy at the hospital door as thousands of patients put their lives in his hands.
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Very interesting book
- By Steve H on 27-04-19
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The Knife’s Edge
- The Heart and Mind of a Cardiac Surgeon
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 04-04-19
- Language: English
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An intimate and compelling exploration into the unique psyche of the heart surgeon, by one of the profession’s most eminent figures....
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Spare Parts
- By: Paul Craddock
- Narrated by: Paul Craddock
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
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We think of transplant surgery as one of the medical wonders of the modern world. But transplant surgery is as ancient as the pyramids, with a history more surprising than we might expect. Paul Craddock takes us on a journey - from 16th-century skin grafting to contemporary stem cell transplants - uncovering stories of operations performed by unexpected people in unexpected places.
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Interesting, but difficult to listen to
- By BoOkWoRm on 01-07-23
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Spare Parts
- Narrated by: Paul Craddock
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 26-08-21
- Language: English
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We think of transplant surgery as one of the medical wonders of the modern world. But transplant surgery is as ancient as the pyramids, with a history more surprising than we might expect....
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The Man Who Touched His Own Heart
- True Tales of Science, Surgery, and Mystery
- By: Rob Dunn
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
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Thought of as the seat of our soul, then as a mysteriously animated object, the heart is still more a mystery than it is understood. Why do most animals only get one billion beats? (And how did modern humans get to over two billion - effectively letting us live out two lives?) Why are sufferers of gingivitis more likely to have heart attacks? And what does it really feel like to touch your own heart, or to have someone else's beating inside your chest?
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The Man Who Touched His Own Heart
- True Tales of Science, Surgery, and Mystery
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 03-02-15
- Language: English
- Thought of as the seat of our soul, then as a mysteriously animated object, the heart is still more a mystery than it is understood....
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King of Hearts
- The True Story of the Maverick Who Pioneered Open Heart Surgery
- By: G. Wayne Miller
- Narrated by: Patrick Cullen
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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G. Wayne Miller has dramatically and meticulously reconstructed an amazing true story: how a group of renegade Minnesota surgeons, led by Dr. Walt Lillehei, made medical history by becoming the first doctors to operate deep inside the human heart.
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Amazing book
- By tomas urbonas on 29-06-24
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King of Hearts
- The True Story of the Maverick Who Pioneered Open Heart Surgery
- Narrated by: Patrick Cullen
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 25-04-03
- Language: English
- G. Wayne Miller has dramatically and meticulously reconstructed an amazing true story...
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Killer Looks
- The Forgotten History of Plastic Surgery in Prisons
- By: Zara Stone
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
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Killer Looks is the definitive story about the long-forgotten practice of providing free nose jobs, face-lifts, breast implants, and other physical alterations to prisoners, the idea being that by remodeling the face you remake the man. From the 1920s up to the mid-1990s, half a million prison inmates across America, Canada, and the UK willingly went under the knife, their tab picked up by the government.
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Killer Looks
- The Forgotten History of Plastic Surgery in Prisons
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 26-10-21
- Language: English
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Killer Looks is the definitive story about the long-forgotten practice of providing free nose jobs, face-lifts, breast implants, and other physical alterations to prisoners, the idea being that by remodeling the face you remake the man....
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The Germ Theory and Its Applications to Medicine and Surgery
- By: Louis Pasteur
- Narrated by: Leo McQueen
- Length: 15 mins
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The great scientists Louis Pasteur (1822-1893) and Joseph Lister (1827-1912) revolutionized medical practice in the 19th century. Pasteur's discovery of the cause of fermentation formed the basis of modern germ theory while Lister developed antiseptic surgical methods based on that. The book contains a description of the theory, and accounts of their work and experiments.
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The Germ Theory and Its Applications to Medicine and Surgery
- Narrated by: Leo McQueen
- Length: 15 mins
- Release date: 08-02-19
- Language: English
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The great scientists Louis Pasteur (1822-1893) and Joseph Lister (1827-1912) revolutionized medical practice in the 19th century. Pasteur's discovery of the cause of fermentation formed the basis of modern germ theory while Lister developed antiseptic surgical methods based on that....
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Walking Free
- By: Molly McCully Brown
- Narrated by: Rupert Farley
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
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In 1999, Munjed Al Muderis was a surgical resident working in Baghdad when the military police marched into the operating theatre and ordered the team to mutilate army deserters. When the head of surgery refused, he was executed. Munjed's choices were stark - comply and breach the medical oath, refuse and face death or flee. That day, Munjed's life changed forever. He escaped to Indonesia and boarded a boat to Australia.
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Inspiring - a story of hope and determination
- By Jo Shap on 10-11-20
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Walking Free
- Narrated by: Rupert Farley
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 01-02-19
- Language: English
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The extraordinary true story of a young man who fled war-torn Iraq, came to Australia as a refugee by boat, survived the Australian detention centre and went on to become a pioneering surgeon....
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Metallica and Philosophy
- A Crash Course in Brain Surgery
- By: William Irwin
- Narrated by: Jeff Preston
- Length: 11 hrs
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Hit the lights and jump in the fire, you're about to enter the School of Rock! Today's lecture will be a crash course in brain surgery. This hard and fast lesson is taught by instructors who graduated from the old school - they actually paid $5.98 for The $5.98 EP. But back before these philosophy professors cut their hair, they were lieutenants in the Metal Militia.
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Metallica and Philosophy
- A Crash Course in Brain Surgery
- Narrated by: Jeff Preston
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 09-07-20
- Language: English
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Hit the lights and jump in the fire, you're about to enter the School of Rock! Today's lecture will be a crash course in brain surgery. This hard and fast lesson is taught by instructors who graduated from the old school - they actually paid $5.98 for The $5.98 EP....
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Pandemics & Medical Breakthroughs Collection
- Notes on Nursing, The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918, The Germ Theory and Its Applications to Medicine and Surgery, & Recovery from the Passage of an Iron Bar Through the Head
- By: Florence Nightingale, Oscar Jewell Harvey, Louis Pasteur, and others
- Narrated by: Museum Audiobooks cast
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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Pandemics have afflicted human civilizations throughout history, yet these health crises have also led to progress in medicine and society that improved people’s lives. History shows that scientific innovation often proceeds from the collaboration of researchers across disciplines, nations, and institutions.
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Pandemics & Medical Breakthroughs Collection
- Notes on Nursing, The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918, The Germ Theory and Its Applications to Medicine and Surgery, & Recovery from the Passage of an Iron Bar Through the Head
- Narrated by: Museum Audiobooks cast
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 09-01-21
- Language: English
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Pandemics have afflicted human civilizations throughout history, yet these health crises have also led to progress in medicine and society that improved people’s lives....
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On Surgery
- By: Francis Adams - translator, Hippocrates
- Narrated by: Ellie Darvill
- Length: 27 mins
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Hippocrates earned the title “Father of Medicine” for his extensive work in ancient Greece. He effectively established medicine as a profession. Modern doctors still swear to uphold the ethical standards he laid out in the Hippocratic Oath. His work On Surgery provides a fascinating look into medical history and the historical practices of this great physician.
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On Surgery
- Narrated by: Ellie Darvill
- Length: 27 mins
- Release date: 09-10-18
- Language: English
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Hippocrates earned the title “Father of Medicine” for his extensive work in ancient Greece. His work On Surgery provides a fascinating look into medical history and the historical practices of this great physician....
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Schnitt!
- Die ganze Geschichte der Chirurgie erzählt in 28 Operationen
- By: Arnold van de Laar, Bärbel Jänicke - Übersetzer
- Narrated by: Stefan Barth
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
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Ein einzigartiges Hörbuch, das Sie nicht gleichgültig lassen wird! Von den dunklen Anfangszeiten der Chirurgie, als noch ohne Betäubung amputiert wurde, über königliche Operationen bis zu den heutigen High-Tech-OPs – der Chirurg Arnold van de Laar beschreibt in seinem Hörbuch so packend wie allgemeinverständlich die Geschichte der Chirurgie, und gibt einen spannenden Einblick in sein Fach. In 28 Kapiteln erzählt van de Laar anhand berühmter Operationen, was genau im Operationsaal geschieht.
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Schnitt!
- Die ganze Geschichte der Chirurgie erzählt in 28 Operationen
- Narrated by: Stefan Barth
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 26-04-22
- Language: German
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Ein einzigartiges Hörbuch, das Sie nicht gleichgültig lassen wird! Von den dunklen Anfangszeiten der Chirurgie, als noch ohne Betäubung...
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