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The American Plague
- The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, The Epidemic That Shaped Our History
- ナレーター: Paul Woodson
- 再生時間: 8 時間 29 分
- カテゴリー: 衛生・健康, 身体的病い・疾患
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An American Plague
- The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
- 著者: Jim Murphy
- ナレーター: Pat Bottino
- 再生時間: 3 時間 46 分
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In An American Plague, Jim Murphy tells the story of the 1793 yellow fever epidemic. Bizarre medical practices of the time are discussed, as well as popular historical figures, such as George Washington and Benjamin Rush, who were involved in finding a cure for this horrific outbreak. Pat Bottino's captivating narration adds appeal to this interesting historical tale.
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Viruses, Plagues, and History
- Past, Present, and Future
- 著者: Michael B. A. Oldstone
- ナレーター: L.J. Ganser
- 再生時間: 13 時間 38 分
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The story of viruses and humanity is a story of fear and ignorance, of grief and heartbreak, and of great bravery and sacrifice. Michael Oldstone tells all these stories as he illuminates the history of the devastating diseases that have tormented humanity, focusing mostly on the most famous viruses. For this revised edition, Oldstone includes discussions of new viruses like SARS, bird flu, virally caused cancers, chronic wasting disease, and West Nile. Viruses, Plagues, and History paints a sweeping portrait of humanity's long-standing conflict with our unseen viral enemies.
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Pale Rider
- The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
- 著者: Laura Spinney
- ナレーター: Paul Hodgson
- 再生時間: 10 時間 4 分
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With a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918–1920 was the greatest human disaster. And yet, in our popular conception it exists largely as a footnote to World War I. Laura Spinney recounts the story of an overlooked pandemic, tracing it from Alaska to Brazil, from Persia to Spain and from South Africa to Odessa. She shows how the pandemic was shaped by the interaction of a virus and the humans it encountered, and how this devastating natural experiment put both the ingenuity and the vulnerability of humans to the test.
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America's Forgotten Pandemic (Second Edition)
- The Influenza of 1918
- 著者: Alfred W. Crosby
- ナレーター: Rick Adamson
- 再生時間: 11 時間 35 分
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Between August 1918 and March 1919, the Spanish influenza spread worldwide, claiming over 25 million lives. In this vivid narrative, Alfred W. Crosby recounts the course of the pandemic during the panic-stricken months of 1918 and 1919, measures its impact on American society, and probes the curious loss of national memory of this cataclysmic event. This edition includes a preface discussing the then-recent outbreaks of diseases, including the Asian flu and the SARS epidemic.
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Epidemics and Society
- From the Black Death to the Present
- 著者: Frank M. Snowden
- ナレーター: Eric Jason Martin
- 再生時間: 23 時間 34 分
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This sweeping exploration of the impact of epidemic diseases looks at how mass infectious outbreaks have shaped society, from the Black Death to today, and in a new preface addresses the global threat of COVID-19. In a clear and accessible style, Frank M. Snowden reveals the ways that diseases have not only influenced medical science and public health, but also transformed the arts, religion, intellectual history, and warfare.
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Einstein's Dreams
- 著者: Alan Lightman
- ナレーター: Grover Gardner
- 再生時間: 2 時間 32 分
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A modern classic, Einstein's Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In one, time is circular, and people are fated to repeat their triumphs and failures over and over. In another, there is a place where time stands still, visited by lovers and parents clinging to their children.
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An American Plague
- The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
- 著者: Jim Murphy
- ナレーター: Pat Bottino
- 再生時間: 3 時間 46 分
- 完全版
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In An American Plague, Jim Murphy tells the story of the 1793 yellow fever epidemic. Bizarre medical practices of the time are discussed, as well as popular historical figures, such as George Washington and Benjamin Rush, who were involved in finding a cure for this horrific outbreak. Pat Bottino's captivating narration adds appeal to this interesting historical tale.
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Viruses, Plagues, and History
- Past, Present, and Future
- 著者: Michael B. A. Oldstone
- ナレーター: L.J. Ganser
- 再生時間: 13 時間 38 分
- 完全版
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The story of viruses and humanity is a story of fear and ignorance, of grief and heartbreak, and of great bravery and sacrifice. Michael Oldstone tells all these stories as he illuminates the history of the devastating diseases that have tormented humanity, focusing mostly on the most famous viruses. For this revised edition, Oldstone includes discussions of new viruses like SARS, bird flu, virally caused cancers, chronic wasting disease, and West Nile. Viruses, Plagues, and History paints a sweeping portrait of humanity's long-standing conflict with our unseen viral enemies.
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Pale Rider
- The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
- 著者: Laura Spinney
- ナレーター: Paul Hodgson
- 再生時間: 10 時間 4 分
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With a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918–1920 was the greatest human disaster. And yet, in our popular conception it exists largely as a footnote to World War I. Laura Spinney recounts the story of an overlooked pandemic, tracing it from Alaska to Brazil, from Persia to Spain and from South Africa to Odessa. She shows how the pandemic was shaped by the interaction of a virus and the humans it encountered, and how this devastating natural experiment put both the ingenuity and the vulnerability of humans to the test.
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America's Forgotten Pandemic (Second Edition)
- The Influenza of 1918
- 著者: Alfred W. Crosby
- ナレーター: Rick Adamson
- 再生時間: 11 時間 35 分
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Between August 1918 and March 1919, the Spanish influenza spread worldwide, claiming over 25 million lives. In this vivid narrative, Alfred W. Crosby recounts the course of the pandemic during the panic-stricken months of 1918 and 1919, measures its impact on American society, and probes the curious loss of national memory of this cataclysmic event. This edition includes a preface discussing the then-recent outbreaks of diseases, including the Asian flu and the SARS epidemic.
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Epidemics and Society
- From the Black Death to the Present
- 著者: Frank M. Snowden
- ナレーター: Eric Jason Martin
- 再生時間: 23 時間 34 分
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This sweeping exploration of the impact of epidemic diseases looks at how mass infectious outbreaks have shaped society, from the Black Death to today, and in a new preface addresses the global threat of COVID-19. In a clear and accessible style, Frank M. Snowden reveals the ways that diseases have not only influenced medical science and public health, but also transformed the arts, religion, intellectual history, and warfare.
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Einstein's Dreams
- 著者: Alan Lightman
- ナレーター: Grover Gardner
- 再生時間: 2 時間 32 分
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A modern classic, Einstein's Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In one, time is circular, and people are fated to repeat their triumphs and failures over and over. In another, there is a place where time stands still, visited by lovers and parents clinging to their children.
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American Contagions
- Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19
- 著者: John Fabian Witt
- ナレーター: Mike Chamberlain
- 再生時間: 2 時間 55 分
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From yellow fever to smallpox to polio to AIDS to COVID-19, epidemics have prompted Americans to make choices and answer questions about their basic values and their laws. In five concise chapters, historian John Fabian Witt traces the legal history of epidemics, showing how infectious disease has both shaped, and been shaped by, the law.
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The Years of Rice and Salt
- 著者: Kim Stanley Robinson
- ナレーター: Bronson Pinchot
- 再生時間: 25 時間 56 分
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It is the 14th century, and one of the most apocalyptic events in human history is set to occur - the coming of the Black Death. History teaches us that a third of Europe's population was destroyed. But what if the plague had killed 99 percent of the population instead? How would the world have changed? This is a look at the history that could have been - a history that stretches across centuries, a history that sees dynasties and nations rise and crumble, a history that spans horrible famine and magnificent innovation.
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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
- 著者: Susan Sontag
- ナレーター: Tavia Gilbert
- 再生時間: 4 時間 37 分
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In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as “one of the most liberating books of its time”. A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment.
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Mountains Beyond Mountains
- The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
- 著者: Tracy Kidder
- ナレーター: Paul Michael
- 再生時間: 10 時間 50 分
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Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy Kidder tells the true story of a socially conscious genius who uses his intellectual and personal gifts to solve global health problems.
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Pandemics
- A Very Short Introduction
- 著者: Christian W. McMillen
- ナレーター: Joe Barrett
- 再生時間: 3 時間 59 分
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Christian W. McMillen provides a concise yet comprehensive account of pandemics throughout human history, illustrating how pandemic disease has shaped history and, at the same time, social behavior has influenced pandemic disease.
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American Pandemic
- The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
- 著者: Nancy Bristow
- ナレーター: Karen White
- 再生時間: 12 時間 35 分
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Between the years 1918 and 1920, influenza raged around the globe in the worst pandemic in recorded history, killing at least 50 million people, more than half a million of them Americans. Yet despite the devastation, this catastrophic event seems but a forgotten moment in our nation's past. American Pandemic offers a much-needed corrective to the silence surrounding the influenza outbreak.
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Over the course of history, yellow fever has paralyzed governments, halted commerce, quarantined cities, moved the U.S. capital, and altered the outcome of wars. During a single summer in Memphis alone, it cost more lives than the Chicago fire, the San Francisco earthquake, and the Johnstown flood combined.
In 1900, the U.S. sent three doctors to Cuba to discover how yellow fever was spread. There, they launched one of history's most controversial human studies. Compelling and terrifying, The American Plague depicts the story of yellow fever and its reign in this country - and in Africa, where even today it strikes thousands every year. With "arresting tales of heroism," it is a story as much about the nature of human beings as it is about the nature of disease.
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- Kevin P Key
- 2020/04/13
Yellow Fever in Memphis
Yellow fever ravaged Memphis, peaking in 1878. The city went from a population of 47,000 to 19k in months. This book covers its origins in Africa, describes daily living, medical care, churches, and the deaths and burials of the victims.
The epidemic sparked a virologist coordinated lead team which tackled the disease. Walter Reed was a leader during the research. My great 3x grandparents and 6 other relatives died in the epidemic and are buried together in a family plot.
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- Mary
- 2020/08/12
Loaded with info and well presented
I have not heard the story of "Yellow Fever" before. It was good to learn new data and it's history..
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- Sylvia
- 2020/07/08
Detailed history narrated quite well
I was naturally intrigued by this book given my experience with mosquito-borne and other infectious diseases. Loved the simplicity in writing and the clarity of its narration. Well done!
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- eve
- 2018/12/21
Too long
Many books do not lend themselves to abridgment, their every word being important and necessary to the story while others are needlessly long. This book is the latter.