Surgery History

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    • A History of Surgery
    • By: Richard Hollingham
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 28-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • 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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    • 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
    • Release date: 17-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 352 ratings
    • 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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    • 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
    • Release date: 14-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • 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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    • A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable Operations
    • By: Arnold van de Laar
    • Narrated by: Rich Keeble
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 204 ratings
    • 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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    • Surgery on the Front Line
    • By: David Nott
    • Narrated by: David Nott
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 21-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,289 ratings
    • 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 Heart and Mind of a Cardiac Surgeon
    • By: Stephen Westaby
    • Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 128 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Paul Craddock
    • Narrated by: Paul Craddock
    • Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 26-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • 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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    • True Tales of Science, Surgery, and Mystery
    • By: Rob Dunn
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • 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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    • 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
    • Release date: 25-04-03
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • G. Wayne Miller has dramatically and meticulously reconstructed an amazing true story...

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    • The Forgotten History of Plastic Surgery in Prisons
    • By: Zara Stone
    • 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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    • By: Louis Pasteur
    • 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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    • By: Molly McCully Brown
    • Narrated by: Rupert Farley
    • Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • 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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    • A Crash Course in Brain Surgery
    • By: William Irwin
    • Narrated by: Jeff Preston
    • Length: 11 hrs
    • Release date: 09-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • By: Francis Adams - translator, Hippocrates
    • 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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    • 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
    • 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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