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The Distracted Mind

Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World

de Adam Gazzaley, Larry D. Rosen ...

Narrado por Chris Sorensen ...

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10 hora 56 minutos

A “brilliant and practical” study of why our brain isn’t built for media multitasking—and how we can learn to live with technology in a more balanced way (Jack Kornfield, author of The Wise Heart**).**Includes practical strategies for fighting digital distraction—straight from a neuroscientist and a psychologist!Most of us will freely admit that we are obsessed with our devices. We pride ourselves ... Leer más

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A “brilliant and practical” study of why our brain isn’t built for media multitasking—and how we can learn to live with technology in a more balanced way (Jack Kornfield, author of The Wise Heart**).**Includes practical strategies for fighting digital distraction—straight from a neuroscientist and a psychologist!Most of us will freely admit that we are obsessed with our devices. We pride ourselves
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Neurology Rounds with the Maverick

de Bernard M. Patten MD ...

Narrado por Gregory V. Diehl ...

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12 hora 49 minutos

In Neurology Rounds with the Maverick, clinical neurologist Dr. Bernard M. Patten recounts his most profound, entertaining, and uncommon experiences with patients throughout his 34-year medical career.Learn about the strange case of the teenage girl who got pulled out of class for medical treatment because she couldn’t stop laughing. Then consider the 14-year-old who faked grand mal seizures for ... Leer más

$16.19 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

In Neurology Rounds with the Maverick, clinical neurologist Dr. Bernard M. Patten recounts his most profound, entertaining, and uncommon experiences with patients throughout his 34-year medical career.Learn about the strange case of the teenage girl who got pulled out of class for medical treatment because she couldn’t stop laughing. Then consider the 14-year-old who faked grand mal seizures for
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Superhuman: The Future of Drugs, Bioelectronics, and Genetic Medicine

de Michael Bess ...

Narrado por Michael Bess ...

Series series Learn25: History
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10 hora 38 minutos

The next wave of technological change will shape not just our gizmos and gadgets, but our own bodies and minds. Join award-winning historian Michael Bess to learn what to expect from the “Superhuman Revolution.”In the near future, developments in bioenhancement technologies will not only alter how we make a living, communicate, and interact with each other, but will offer direct and precise ... Leer más

$15.29 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

The next wave of technological change will shape not just our gizmos and gadgets, but our own bodies and minds. Join award-winning historian Michael Bess to learn what to expect from the “Superhuman Revolution.”In the near future, developments in bioenhancement technologies will not only alter how we make a living, communicate, and interact with each other, but will offer direct and precise
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The People's Hospital

Hope and Peril in American Medicine

de M.D. Ricardo Nuila ...

Narrado por M.D. Ricardo Nuila ...

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10 hora 53 minutos

“Nuila’s storytelling gifts place him alongside colleagues like Atul Gawande.” —Los Angeles TimesThis “compelling mixture of health care policy and gripping stories from the frontlines of medicine” (The Guardian) explores the question: where does an uninsured person go when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors?Follow the lives of five uninsured Houstonians as their struggle for survival ... Leer más

$23.39 USD

“Nuila’s storytelling gifts place him alongside colleagues like Atul Gawande.” —Los Angeles TimesThis “compelling mixture of health care policy and gripping stories from the frontlines of medicine” (The Guardian) explores the question: where does an uninsured person go when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors?Follow the lives of five uninsured Houstonians as their struggle for survival
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Mejores Prácticas en Pediatría

de Charles Raymond Bell M.D. ...

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7 hora 13 minutos

Esta elocuente antología encapsula la esencia del cuidado pediátrico, entrelazando delicadamente la pericia médica con una empatía genuina. Guía a los cuidadores a través de los múltiples paisajes de la salud y las emociones en la infancia, promoviendo la equidad en la atención sanitaria y defendiendo la unión entre la ciencia y la compasión. Desde abordar los matices de la dinámica familiar hasta ... Leer más

$8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Esta elocuente antología encapsula la esencia del cuidado pediátrico, entrelazando delicadamente la pericia médica con una empatía genuina. Guía a los cuidadores a través de los múltiples paisajes de la salud y las emociones en la infancia, promoviendo la equidad en la atención sanitaria y defendiendo la unión entre la ciencia y la compasión. Desde abordar los matices de la dinámica familiar hasta
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The South Carolina State Hospital

Stories from Bull Street

de William Buchheit ...

Narrado por Adam Lofbomm ...

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3 hora 51 minutos

Nearly two decades after it closed, the South Carolina State Hospital continues to hold a palpable mystique in Columbia and throughout the state. Founded in 1821 as the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum, it housed, fed, and treated thousands of patients incapable of surviving on their own. The patient population in 1961 eclipsed 6,600, well above its listed capacity of 4,823, despite an operating ... Leer más

$11.69 USD

Nearly two decades after it closed, the South Carolina State Hospital continues to hold a palpable mystique in Columbia and throughout the state. Founded in 1821 as the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum, it housed, fed, and treated thousands of patients incapable of surviving on their own. The patient population in 1961 eclipsed 6,600, well above its listed capacity of 4,823, despite an operating
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Your Money or Your Life

Debt Collection in American Medicine

de Luke Messac ...

Narrado por Luke Messac ...

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6 hora 47 minutos

A riveting exposé of medical debt collection in America—and the profound financial and physical costs eroding patient trust in medicineFor the crime of falling sick without wealth, Americans today face lawsuits, wage garnishment, home foreclosure, and even jail time.Yet who really profits from aggressive medical debt collection? And how does this predatory system affect patients and doctors ... Leer más

$18.89 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

A riveting exposé of medical debt collection in America—and the profound financial and physical costs eroding patient trust in medicineFor the crime of falling sick without wealth, Americans today face lawsuits, wage garnishment, home foreclosure, and even jail time.Yet who really profits from aggressive medical debt collection? And how does this predatory system affect patients and doctors
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Dark Archives

A Librarian's Investigation Into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin

de Megan Rosenbloom ...

Narrado por Justis Bolding ...

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6 hora 58 minutos

On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. Would you know one if you held it in your hand?In Dark Archives, Megan Rosenbloom seeks out the historic and scientific truths behind anthropodermic bibliopegy—the practice of binding books in this most intimate covering. ... Leer más

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On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. Would you know one if you held it in your hand?In Dark Archives, Megan Rosenbloom seeks out the historic and scientific truths behind anthropodermic bibliopegy—the practice of binding books in this most intimate covering.
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Control

The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics

de Adam Rutherford ...

Narrado por Greg Patmore ...

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7 hora 29 minutos

How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years?Control is a book about eugenics, what geneticist Adam Rutherford calls “a defining idea of the twentieth century.” Inspired by Darwin’s ideas about evolution, eugenics arose in Victorian England as a theory for molding the British population, and quickly spread to America, where it was embraced by presidents, ... Leer más

$15.26 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years?Control is a book about eugenics, what geneticist Adam Rutherford calls “a defining idea of the twentieth century.” Inspired by Darwin’s ideas about evolution, eugenics arose in Victorian England as a theory for molding the British population, and quickly spread to America, where it was embraced by presidents,
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Cash Cow

How the maternal body became a global commodity – and the hidden costs for women

de Alev Scott ...

Narrado por Alev Scott ...

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7 hora 6 minutos

*A Radio 4 Book of the Week*'Captivating, mind-boggling and deeply disturbing' – Maureen Freely'Humane, thoughtful and urgent — this book will make you think, make you laugh, make you cry, but also make you burn with rage' – Dr Mary WellesleyA thought-provoking deep dive into the global fertility industry and the commodification of the maternal body__________Should surrogacy be a... ... Leer más

$21.59 USD

*A Radio 4 Book of the Week*'Captivating, mind-boggling and deeply disturbing' – Maureen Freely'Humane, thoughtful and urgent — this book will make you think, make you laugh, make you cry, but also make you burn with rage' – Dr Mary WellesleyA thought-provoking deep dive into the global fertility industry and the commodification of the maternal body__________Should surrogacy be a...
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Médecin légiste

Pour les morts et les vivants

de Bernard Marc ...

Narrado por Hadrien Rouchard ...

Completo

5 hora 16 minutos

Non, un médecin légiste n’est pas seulement cet homme en blouse blanche disséquant le corps humain, le découpant de part en part pour en extirper les derniers secrets. Un légiste est aussi un enquêteur des plus redoutables, capable au premier coup d’œil, dès la scène de crime, de confondre un assassin, de débusquer le meurtre quand on crie au suicide, de reconstituer le scénario d’une tragédie ... Leer más

$22.99 USD

Non, un médecin légiste n’est pas seulement cet homme en blouse blanche disséquant le corps humain, le découpant de part en part pour en extirper les derniers secrets. Un légiste est aussi un enquêteur des plus redoutables, capable au premier coup d’œil, dès la scène de crime, de confondre un assassin, de débusquer le meurtre quand on crie au suicide, de reconstituer le scénario d’une tragédie
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Blind Eye

de James B. Stewart ...

Narrado por Boyd Gaines ...

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5 hora

A medical thriller from Pulitzer Prize–winning author James B. Stewart about serial killer doctor Michael Swango and the medical community that chose to turn a blind eye on his criminal activities.No one could believe that the handsome young doctor might be a serial killer. Wherever he was hired—in Ohio, Illinois, New York, South Dakota—Michael Swango at first seemed the model physician. Then his ... Leer más

$17.09 USD

A medical thriller from Pulitzer Prize–winning author James B. Stewart about serial killer doctor Michael Swango and the medical community that chose to turn a blind eye on his criminal activities.No one could believe that the handsome young doctor might be a serial killer. Wherever he was hired—in Ohio, Illinois, New York, South Dakota—Michael Swango at first seemed the model physician. Then his
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When Medicine Misses the Mark: Unveiling Health's Hidden Pitfalls

"Unlock the secrets of health! Experience dynamic audio lessons that reveal hidden issues in medicine."

de Alden Hawkesmoor ...

Narrado por Nick Porter ...

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2 hora 30 minutos

When Medicine Misses the Mark: Unveiling Health's Hidden Pitfalls**⭐⭐ Simplified Guide & Explanations Included ⭐⭐Are you ready to enhance your health knowledge and make informed decisions for better well-being?Searching for a comprehensive resource that equips you with all the necessary tools to navigate the complexities of health care effectively?Your search ends here!... ... Leer más

$4.05 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

When Medicine Misses the Mark: Unveiling Health's Hidden Pitfalls**⭐⭐ Simplified Guide & Explanations Included ⭐⭐Are you ready to enhance your health knowledge and make informed decisions for better well-being?Searching for a comprehensive resource that equips you with all the necessary tools to navigate the complexities of health care effectively?Your search ends here!...
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The Sadness Business

de Patrick Landman ...

Narrado por Alan Cook ...

Completo

2 hora 43 minutos

Have you lost a loved one? Your sadness becomes depression. Your child is a little too lively? He or she may be a danger to society. Do you have a penchant for cake? You have a psychiatric disorder. The new standard way of thinking about mental health, dictated by the publication of an international guide, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, is authorian and overshadows ... Leer más

$11.99 USD

Have you lost a loved one? Your sadness becomes depression. Your child is a little too lively? He or she may be a danger to society. Do you have a penchant for cake? You have a psychiatric disorder. The new standard way of thinking about mental health, dictated by the publication of an international guide, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, is authorian and overshadows
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Welfare of Future Children, The: Reproductive Ethics and Disability Screening

de Rebecca Bennett ...

Narrado por Rebecca Bennett ...

Completo

8 hora 54 minutos

Narrated by Rebecca Bennett, this open access practical guide to reproductive ethics navigates the complex subject of the policy around IVF treatment and disability screening based on the concerns around the welfare of future children. It focuses on 3 questions in order to examine these often complex philosophical issues:· Should we allow prospective parents using IVF to implant an embryo with a ... Leer más

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Narrated by Rebecca Bennett, this open access practical guide to reproductive ethics navigates the complex subject of the policy around IVF treatment and disability screening based on the concerns around the welfare of future children. It focuses on 3 questions in order to examine these often complex philosophical issues:· Should we allow prospective parents using IVF to implant an embryo with a
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The Tuskegee Syphilis Study

An Insiders' Account of the Shocking Medical Experiment Conducted by Government Doctors Against African American Men

de Fred D. Gray ...

Narrado por David Sadzin ...

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5 hora 6 minutos

In 1932, the US Public Health Service recruited 623 African American men from Macon County, Alabama, for a study of "the effects of untreated syphilis in the Negro male." For the next forty years—even after the development of penicillin, the cure for syphilis—these men were denied medical care for this potentially fatal disease.The Tuskegee Syphilis Study was exposed in 1972, and in 1975 the ... Leer más

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In 1932, the US Public Health Service recruited 623 African American men from Macon County, Alabama, for a study of "the effects of untreated syphilis in the Negro male." For the next forty years—even after the development of penicillin, the cure for syphilis—these men were denied medical care for this potentially fatal disease.The Tuskegee Syphilis Study was exposed in 1972, and in 1975 the
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The Life Worth Living

Disability, Pain, and Morality

de Joel Michael Reynolds ...

Narrado por Jason Vu ...

Completo

6 hora 50 minutos

More than 2,000 years ago, Aristotle said: "let there be a law that no deformed child shall live." This idea is alive and well today. During the past century, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. argued that the United States can forcibly sterilize intellectually disabled women and philosopher Peter Singer argued for the right of parents to euthanize certain cognitively disabled infants ... Leer más

$17.99 USD

More than 2,000 years ago, Aristotle said: "let there be a law that no deformed child shall live." This idea is alive and well today. During the past century, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. argued that the United States can forcibly sterilize intellectually disabled women and philosopher Peter Singer argued for the right of parents to euthanize certain cognitively disabled infants
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The Miracle of the Black Leg

Notes on Race, Human Bodies, and the Spirit of the Law

de Patricia J. Williams ...

Narrado por Carmen Jewel Jones ...

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8 hora 8 minutos

Beginning with a jaw-dropping rumination on a centuries-old painting featuring a white man with a Black man's leg surgically attached (with the expired Black leg-donor in the foreground), contracts law scholar and celebrated journalist Patricia J. Williams uses the lens of the law to take on core questions of identity, ethics, and race.With her trademark elegant prose and critical legal studies ... Leer más

$18.89 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Beginning with a jaw-dropping rumination on a centuries-old painting featuring a white man with a Black man's leg surgically attached (with the expired Black leg-donor in the foreground), contracts law scholar and celebrated journalist Patricia J. Williams uses the lens of the law to take on core questions of identity, ethics, and race.With her trademark elegant prose and critical legal studies
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Love Drugs

The Chemical Future of Relationships

de Brian D. Earp, Julian Savulescu ...

Narrado por Brian D. Earp ...

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7 hora 10 minutos

Is there a pill for love? What about an "anti-love drug," to help us get over an ex? This book argues that certain psychoactive substances, including MDMA—the active ingredient in Ecstasy—may help ordinary couples work through relationship difficulties and strengthen their connection. Others may help sever an emotional connection during a breakup. These substances already exist, and they have ... Leer más

$17.99 USD

Is there a pill for love? What about an "anti-love drug," to help us get over an ex? This book argues that certain psychoactive substances, including MDMA—the active ingredient in Ecstasy—may help ordinary couples work through relationship difficulties and strengthen their connection. Others may help sever an emotional connection during a breakup. These substances already exist, and they have
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What Cannot Be Undone

True Stories of a Life in Medicine

de Walter M. Robinson ...

Narrado por Daniel Thomas May ...

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5 hora 46 minutos

In his award-winning debut essay collection, What Cannot Be Undone, Walter M. Robinson shares surprising stories of illness and medicine that do not sacrifice hard truth for easy dramatics. These true stories are filled with details of difficult days and nights in the world of high-tech medical care, and they show the ongoing struggle in making critical decisions with no good answer. This ... Leer más

$14.39 USD

In his award-winning debut essay collection, What Cannot Be Undone, Walter M. Robinson shares surprising stories of illness and medicine that do not sacrifice hard truth for easy dramatics. These true stories are filled with details of difficult days and nights in the world of high-tech medical care, and they show the ongoing struggle in making critical decisions with no good answer. This
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Undercover Epicenter Nurse

How Fraud, Negligence, and Greed Led to Unnecessary Deaths at Elmhurst Hospital

de Erin Marie Olszewski, BSN, RN, J. B. Handley ...

Narrado por Shirl Rae ...

Completo

7 hora 47 minutos

Army combat veteran and registered nurse Erin Olszewski's most deeply held values were put to the test when she arrived as a travel nurse at Elmhurst Hospital in the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. After serving in Iraq, she was back on the front lines—and this time, she found, the situation was even worse.Rooms were filthy, nurses were lax with sanitation measures, and hospital-acquired cases ... Leer más

$17.99 USD

Army combat veteran and registered nurse Erin Olszewski's most deeply held values were put to the test when she arrived as a travel nurse at Elmhurst Hospital in the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. After serving in Iraq, she was back on the front lines—and this time, she found, the situation was even worse.Rooms were filthy, nurses were lax with sanitation measures, and hospital-acquired cases
... Leer más
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WESSEX POEMS (UNABRIDGED)

de Thomas HARDY ...

Narrado por Zackary Richard ...

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2 hora 6 minutos

A collection of poetry by Thomas Hardy, some of which were previously published or adapted into his prose works. - Summary by Libby Gohn ... Leer más

$4.49 USD

A collection of poetry by Thomas Hardy, some of which were previously published or adapted into his prose works. - Summary by Libby Gohn
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Light Overcoming Darkness

God’s Healing and Hope in the Shadow of Abuse and Moral Injury

de Jason Summers ...

Narrado por Jason Summers, Dr David Strong ...

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4 hora 26 minutos

When we're trapped in the darkness, despair takes control. We desperately need the light. Margaret's nightmarish personal darkness started with the horrors of childhood trauma, were exacerbated by appalling medical abuse but finally, totally, overcome. A loving husband and a simple faith longed for a miracle. In Light Overcoming Darkness, Jason Summers authentically shares his mum's incredible ... Leer más

$9.00 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

When we're trapped in the darkness, despair takes control. We desperately need the light. Margaret's nightmarish personal darkness started with the horrors of childhood trauma, were exacerbated by appalling medical abuse but finally, totally, overcome. A loving husband and a simple faith longed for a miracle. In Light Overcoming Darkness, Jason Summers authentically shares his mum's incredible
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Tristesse business: le scandale du DSM 5

Le scandale du DSM-5

de Patrick Landman ...

Narrado por Isidore Amos ...

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2 hora 38 minutos

a nouvelle édition de cette bible médicale, en plus des 421 troubles mentaux déjà répertoriés, intègre 200 nouvelles maladies psychiques et modifie leur appréhension médicale. En 10 chapitres, cet ouvrage dénonce les effets pervers et les absurdités du DSM : Collusion entre la communauté scientifique et l'industrie pharmaceutique. Pression des laboratoires pharmaceutiques à visées financières. ... Leer más

$11.99 USD

a nouvelle édition de cette bible médicale, en plus des 421 troubles mentaux déjà répertoriés, intègre 200 nouvelles maladies psychiques et modifie leur appréhension médicale. En 10 chapitres, cet ouvrage dénonce les effets pervers et les absurdités du DSM : Collusion entre la communauté scientifique et l'industrie pharmaceutique. Pression des laboratoires pharmaceutiques à visées financières.
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