The Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History by Vidya Krishnan

Moonshot: Inside Pfizer's Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible by Albert Bourla

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/521349 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/521349] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Moonshot: Inside Pfizer's Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible Author: Albert Bourla Narrator: Stephen Graybill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 31 minutes Release date: March 17, 2022 Genres: Medicine & Naturopathy Publisher's Summary: The exclusive, first-hand, behind-the-scenes story of how Pfizer raced to create the first Covid-19 vaccine, told by Pfizer's CEO Dr. Albert Bourla A riveting, fast-paced, inside look at one of the most incredible private sector achievements in history, Moonshot recounts the intensive nine months in 2020 when the scientists at Pfizer, under the visionary leadership of Dr. Albert Bourla, made "the impossible possible"-creating, testing, and manufacturing a safe and effective Covid-19 vaccine that previously would have taken years to develop.   Dr. Bourla chronicles how the brilliant, dedicated minds at Pfizer, under the enormous strains of the global pandemic, overcame a series of crises that were compounded by social and political unrest, and reveals the doubts, decisions, obstacles, and failures they encountered. As Dr. Bourla makes clear, Pfizer's success wasn't due to luck; it was because of preparation driven by four simple values-Courage, Excellence, Equity, and Joy.   Moonshot is a story of leadership under the most unprecedented circumstances-how Dr. Bourla, a Greek immigrant, a child of Holocaust survivors, and a veterinarian, became the head of one of the world's largest corporations and initiated a dramatic transformation of the organization just before a global health crisis would serve to test the organization, its scientists and its leader, like never before. Moonshot describes best practices that can be used to address the multiple, unprecedented challenges our world faces, reveals Pfizer's implementation of scientific breakthroughs at a record-breaking pace, and offers leadership lessons that can help anyone successfully manage their own seemingly unsolvable problems. As Dr. Bourla explains, "I am sharing the story of our moonshot-the challenges we faced, the lessons we learned, and the core values that allowed us to make it happen-in hopes that it might inspire and inform your own moonshot, whatever that may be." THIS AUDIOBOOK MAY INCLUDE INFORMATION REGARDING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. INFORMATION RELATED TO COVID-19 CONTINUES TO EVOLVE. AUDIOBOOKS.COM ENCOURAGES YOU TO SEEK UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE FROM YOUR LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH UNIT.

A Deeper Sickness: Journal of America in the Pandemic Year by Erik L. Peterson, Margaret Peacock

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/517808 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/517808] to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Deeper Sickness: Journal of America in the Pandemic Year Author: Erik L. Peterson, Margaret Peacock Narrator: Raquel Razan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 44 minutes Release date: March 8, 2022 Genres: Medicine & Naturopathy Publisher's Summary: A harrowing chronicle by two leading historians, capturing in real time the events of a year marked by multiple devastations. When we look back at the year 2020, how can we describe what really happened? In A Deeper Sickness, award-winning historians Margaret Peacock and Erik Peterson set out to preserve what they call the “focused confusion,” and to probe deeper into what they consider the Four Pandemics that converged around the 12 astonishing months of 2020:    • Disease    • Disinformation    • Poverty    • Violence Drs. Peacock and Peterson use their interdisciplinary expertise to extend their analysis beyond the viral science, and instead into the social, political, and historical dimensions of this crisis. They consulted with dozens of experts and witnesses from a wide range of fields—from leading epidemiologists and health care workers to leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement, district attorneys, political scientists, philosophers, and more. Their journey revealed a sick country that believed it was well, a violent nation that believed it was peaceful; one that mistook poverty for prosperity and accountability for rebellion. Organized into the journal-entries along with dozens of archival images, A Deeper Sickness will help readers sift through the chaos and misinformation that characterized those frantic days. It is both an unflinching indictment of a nation that is still reeling and a testament to the power of human resilience and collective memory. Readers can share their story and become a contributing author by visiting an interactive digital museum, where the authors have preserved dozens of more stories and interviews. Visit Margaret Peacock and Erik L. Peterson’s digital museum at adhc.lib.ua.edu/pandemicbook/.

The Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History by Vidya Krishnan

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/511881 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/511881] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History Author: Vidya Krishnan Narrator: Sneha Mathan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 53 minutes Release date: February 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Medicine & Naturopathy Publisher's Summary: The definitive social history of tuberculosis, from its origins as a haunting mystery to its modern reemergence that now threatens populations around the world. It killed novelist George Orwell, Eleanor Roosevelt, and millions of others – rich and poor. Desmond Tutu, Amitabh Bachchan, and Nelson Mandela survived it, just.  For centuries, tuberculosis has ravaged cities and plagued the human body.  In  Phantom Plague, Vidya Krishnan, traces the history of tuberculosis from the slums of 19th-century New York to modern Mumbai. In a narrative spanning century, Krishnan shows how superstition and folk-remedies, made way for scientific understanding of TB, such that it was controlled and cured in the West.  The cure was never available to black and brown nations. And the tuberculosis bacillus showed a remarkable ability to adapt – so that at the very moment it could have been extinguished as a threat to humanity, it found a way back, aided by authoritarian government, toxic kindness of philanthropists, science denialism and medical apartheid. Krishnan’s original reporting paints a granular portrait of the post-antibiotic era as a new, aggressive, drug resistant strain of TB takes over. Phantom Plague is an urgent, riveting and fascinating narrative that deftly exposes the weakest links in our battle against this ancient foe.

The Urge: Our History of Addiction by Carl Erik Fisher

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/518728 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/518728] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Urge: Our History of Addiction Author: Carl Erik Fisher Narrator: Mark Deakins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 20 minutes Release date: January 25, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: Medicine & Naturopathy Publisher's Summary: Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and The Boston Globe An authoritative, illuminating, and deeply humane history of addiction—a phenomenon that remains baffling and deeply misunderstood despite having touched countless lives—by an addiction psychiatrist striving to understand his own family and himself “Carl Erik Fisher’s The Urge is the best-written and most incisive book I’ve read on the history of addiction. In the midst of an overdose crisis that grows worse by the hour and has vexed America for centuries, Fisher has given us the best prescription of all: understanding. He seamlessly blends a gripping historical narrative with memoir that doesn’t self-aggrandize; the result is a full-throated argument against blaming people with substance use disorder. The Urge is a propulsive tour de force that is as healing as it is enjoyable to read.” —Beth Macy, author of Dopesick As a psychiatrist in training fresh from medical school, Carl Erik Fisher found himself face-to-face with an addiction crisis that nearly cost him everything. Desperate to make sense of his condition, he turned to the history of addiction, learning that our society’s current quagmire is only part of a centuries-old struggle to treat addictive behavior. A rich, sweeping account that probes not only medicine and science but also literature, religion, philosophy, and public policy, The Urge introduces us to those who have endeavored to address addiction through the ages and examines the treatments that have produced relief for many people, the author included. Only by reckoning with our history of addiction, Fisher argues, can we light the way forward for those whose lives remain threatened by its hold. The Urge is at once an eye-opening history of ideas, a riveting personal story of addiction and recovery, and a clinician’s urgent call for a more nuanced and compassionate view of one of society’s most intractable challenges.

Your Intuition Led You Here: Daily Rituals for Empowerment, Inner Knowing, and Magic by Marlene Vargas, Alex Naranjo

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/517836 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/517836] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Your Intuition Led You Here: Daily Rituals for Empowerment, Inner Knowing, and Magic Author: Marlene Vargas, Alex Naranjo Narrator: Marisol Ramirez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: December 28, 2021 Genres: Medicine & Naturopathy Publisher's Summary: A practical beginner’s guide to magic that helps you set intentions, listen to your inner voice, and achieve radical change—from the owners of the destination boutique House of Intuition. “A must-read if you are into crystals, energy, and rituals.”—PopSugar Life can seem less than magical on a day-to-day basis. But look a little closer at the synchronicities and coincidences that pop up and you’ll catch a glimpse of greater powers at play. Alex Naranjo and Marlene Vargas, the owners of the biggest metaphysical shop on the West Coast, want to let you in on a secret: that power is you. And if you acknowledge and tap into your innate power, the possibilities are endless. Alex and Marlene are experts in using magic as a tool of self-care and empowerment. They have transformed their lives by tuning in to their intuition and intention—which is where all magic begins—and now they show you how to do the same. In Your Intuition Led You Here, they share thirty-two tried-and-true rituals and more guidance on setting your intention and manifesting your desires, including: • creating an altar • working with crystals and candles • making offerings to ancestors and guides • understanding the symbolism behind key magical ingredients • designing your own rituals in response to your inner voice Your intuition is a gift. In this audiobook, you will learn to hear it and respond to it with intention so that you can align your reality with your true self. *Includes a downloadable PDF of rituals and an appendix from the book