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The Age of Diagnosis

How Our Obsession with Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker

by Suzanne O'Sullivan ...

From a neurologist and the award-winning author of The Sleeping Beauties, a meticulous and compassionate exploration of how our culture of medical diagnosis can harm, rather than help, patients.We live in an age of diagnosis. Conditions like ADHD and autism are on the rapid rise, while new categories like long Covid are being created. Medical terms are increasingly used to describe ordinary human ... Read more

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From a neurologist and the award-winning author of The Sleeping Beauties, a meticulous and compassionate exploration of how our culture of medical diagnosis can harm, rather than help, patients.We live in an age of diagnosis. Conditions like ADHD and autism are on the rapid rise, while new categories like long Covid are being created. Medical terms are increasingly used to describe ordinary human
... Read more

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Is It All in Your Head?

True Stories of Imaginary Illness

by Suzanne O'Sullivan ...

A neurologist’s insightful and compassionate look into the misunderstood world of psychosomatic disorders—told through individual case histories“. . . advocates for new ways to look, understand, and treat unexplainable symptoms . . . Some of the cases will break your heart.” —Huffington PostIt’s happened to all of us: our cheeks flush red when we say the wrong thing, or our hearts skip a beat when ... Read more

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A neurologist’s insightful and compassionate look into the misunderstood world of psychosomatic disorders—told through individual case histories“. . . advocates for new ways to look, understand, and treat unexplainable symptoms . . . Some of the cases will break your heart.” —Huffington PostIt’s happened to all of us: our cheeks flush red when we say the wrong thing, or our hearts skip a beat when
... Read more
The Sleeping Beauties

And Other Stories of Mystery Illness

by Suzanne O'Sullivan ...

In Sweden, hundreds of refugee children fall into a state that resembles sleep for months or years at a time. In Le Roy, a town in upstate New York, teenage girls develop involuntary twitches and seizures that spread like a contagion. In the U.S. Embassy in Cuba, employees experience headaches and memory loss after hearing strange noises during the night. These are only a few of the many suspected ... Read more

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In Sweden, hundreds of refugee children fall into a state that resembles sleep for months or years at a time. In Le Roy, a town in upstate New York, teenage girls develop involuntary twitches and seizures that spread like a contagion. In the U.S. Embassy in Cuba, employees experience headaches and memory loss after hearing strange noises during the night. These are only a few of the many suspected
... Read more

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Brainstorm

Detective Stories from the World of Neurology

by Suzanne O'Sullivan ...

A leading neurologist recounts some of her most astonishing and challenging cases, demonstrating how the study of epilepsy is critical to our understanding of the brain.A “brilliant . . . beautifully humane account” for readers of Oliver Sacks’ The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Guardian, Best Books of the Year)Brainstorm follows the stories of people whose medical diagnoses are so strange ... Read more

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A leading neurologist recounts some of her most astonishing and challenging cases, demonstrating how the study of epilepsy is critical to our understanding of the brain.A “brilliant . . . beautifully humane account” for readers of Oliver Sacks’ The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Guardian, Best Books of the Year)Brainstorm follows the stories of people whose medical diagnoses are so strange
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The Sleeping Beauties

And Other Stories of Mystery Illness

by Suzanne O'Sullivan ...

Narrated by Suzanne O'Sullivan ...

Unabridged

10 hours 12 min

In Sweden, hundreds of refugee children fall into a state that resembles sleep for months or years at a time. In Le Roy, a town in upstate New York, teenage girls develop involuntary twitches and seizures that spread like a contagion. In the U.S. Embassy in Cuba, employees experience headaches and memory loss after hearing strange noises during the night. These are only a few of the many suspected ... Read more

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In Sweden, hundreds of refugee children fall into a state that resembles sleep for months or years at a time. In Le Roy, a town in upstate New York, teenage girls develop involuntary twitches and seizures that spread like a contagion. In the U.S. Embassy in Cuba, employees experience headaches and memory loss after hearing strange noises during the night. These are only a few of the many suspected
... Read more

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The Age of Diagnosis

How Our Obsession with Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker

by Suzanne O'Sullivan ...

Narrated by Suzanne O'Sullivan ...

Unabridged

8 hours 47 min

From a neurologist and the award-winning author of The Sleeping Beauties, a meticulous and compassionate exploration of how our culture of medical diagnosis can harm, rather than help, patients.We live in an age of diagnosis. Conditions like ADHD and autism are on the rapid rise, while new categories like long Covid are being created. Medical terms are increasingly used to describe ordinary human ... Read more

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From a neurologist and the award-winning author of The Sleeping Beauties, a meticulous and compassionate exploration of how our culture of medical diagnosis can harm, rather than help, patients.We live in an age of diagnosis. Conditions like ADHD and autism are on the rapid rise, while new categories like long Covid are being created. Medical terms are increasingly used to describe ordinary human
... Read more

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Brainstorm

Detective Stories from the World of Neurology

by Suzanne O'Sullivan ...

Narrated by Christine Williams ...

Unabridged

8 hours 51 min

A leading neurologist recounts some of her most astonishing, challenging cases, which demonstrate how crucial the study of epilepsy has been to our understanding of the brain.Brainstorm follows the stories of people whose medical diagnoses are so strange even their doctor struggles to know how to solve them. A man who sees cartoon characters running across the room; a girl whose world suddenly ... Read more

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A leading neurologist recounts some of her most astonishing, challenging cases, which demonstrate how crucial the study of epilepsy has been to our understanding of the brain.Brainstorm follows the stories of people whose medical diagnoses are so strange even their doctor struggles to know how to solve them. A man who sees cartoon characters running across the room; a girl whose world suddenly
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Mismatch

How Our Stone Age Brain Deceives Us Every Day (And What We Can Do About It)

by Ronald Giphart, Mark van Vugt ...

Narrated by Roger Davis ...

Unabridged

12 hours 48 min

Our brains evolved to solve the survival problems of our Stone Age ancestors, so when faced with modern day situations that are less extreme, they often encounter a mismatch. Our primitive brains put us on the wrong foot by responding to stimuli that - in prehistoric times - would have prompted behaviour that was beneficial. If you've ever felt an anxious fight or flight response to a presenting ... Read more

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Our brains evolved to solve the survival problems of our Stone Age ancestors, so when faced with modern day situations that are less extreme, they often encounter a mismatch. Our primitive brains put us on the wrong foot by responding to stimuli that - in prehistoric times - would have prompted behaviour that was beneficial. If you've ever felt an anxious fight or flight response to a presenting
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Outlandish

Walking Europe's Unlikely Landscapes

by Nick Hunt ...

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Unabridged

9 hours 4 min

A dazzling plunge into the four strangest landscapes scattered across Europe.In Outlandish, acclaimed travel writer Nick Hunt takes us across landscapes that should not be there, wildernesses found in Europe yet seemingly belonging to far-off continents: a patch of Arctic tundra in Scotland; the continent's largest surviving remnant of primeval forest in Poland and Belarus; Europe's only true ... Read more

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A dazzling plunge into the four strangest landscapes scattered across Europe.In Outlandish, acclaimed travel writer Nick Hunt takes us across landscapes that should not be there, wildernesses found in Europe yet seemingly belonging to far-off continents: a patch of Arctic tundra in Scotland; the continent's largest surviving remnant of primeval forest in Poland and Belarus; Europe's only true
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Divide

The relationship crisis between town and country: Longlisted for The 2022 Wainwright Prize for writing on CONSERVATION

by Anna Jones ...

Unabridged

11 hours 7 min

This book is a call to action. It warns that unless we learn to accept and respect our social, cultural and political differences as town and country people, we are never going to solve the chronic problems in our food system and environment.As we stare down the barrel of climate change, only farmers - who manage two thirds of the UK's landscape - working together with conservation groups can ... Read more

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This book is a call to action. It warns that unless we learn to accept and respect our social, cultural and political differences as town and country people, we are never going to solve the chronic problems in our food system and environment.As we stare down the barrel of climate change, only farmers - who manage two thirds of the UK's landscape - working together with conservation groups can
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The Lie of the Land

Who Really Cares for the Countryside?

by Guy Shrubsole ...

Narrated by Guy Shrubsole ...

Unabridged

8 hours 58 min

WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION 2025A WATERSTONES AND GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2024'Both dynamite and medicine' AMY-JANE BEER'Timely and rousing' THE TIMES________________________________The lie of the land: that Britain’s landowners care for the countryside.Our landowning elite are paid billions of taxpayer pounds to be good s... ... Read more

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WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION 2025A WATERSTONES AND GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2024'Both dynamite and medicine' AMY-JANE BEER'Timely and rousing' THE TIMES________________________________The lie of the land: that Britain’s landowners care for the countryside.Our landowning elite are paid billions of taxpayer pounds to be good s...
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They Poisoned the World

Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals

by Mariah Blake ...

“Riveting . . . Blake’s deft chronicle of one of the greatest moral scandals of our time [is] a book that none of us can afford to miss.”—The Washington PostA gripping investigation of the chemical industry’s decades-long campaign to hide the dangers of forever chemicals, told through the story of a small town on the frontlines of an epic public health crisis.SHORTLISTED FOR THE J. ANTHONY LUKAS ... Read more

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“Riveting . . . Blake’s deft chronicle of one of the greatest moral scandals of our time [is] a book that none of us can afford to miss.”—The Washington PostA gripping investigation of the chemical industry’s decades-long campaign to hide the dangers of forever chemicals, told through the story of a small town on the frontlines of an epic public health crisis.SHORTLISTED FOR THE J. ANTHONY LUKAS
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