Medicine audiobooks


Everything Is Tuberculosis
By: John Green
Narrated by: John Green
Length: 5 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Instant #1 New York Times bestseller! âą #1 Washington Post bestseller! âą #1 Indie Bestseller! âą USA Today Bestseller!
John Green, acclaimed author and passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the worldâs deadliest infectious disease. Signed edition
âThe real magic of Greenâs... Read more


The Body Keeps the Score
By: Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
Length: 16 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 New York Times bestseller
âEssential reading for anyone interested in understanding and treating traumatic stress and the scope of its impact on society.â âAlexander McFarlane, Director of the Centre for Traumatic Stress Studies
A pioneering researcher transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing in this New... Read more


I Contain Multitudes
By: Ed Yong
Narrated by: Charlie Anson
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times BestsellerNew York Times Notable Book of 2016NPR Great Read of 2016Economist Best Books of 2016Brain Pickings Best Science Books of 2016Smithsonian Best Books about Science of 2016Science Friday Best Science Book of 2016A Mother Jones Notable Read of 2016A Bill Gates âGates Notesâ PickMPR Best Books of 2016Chicago Public Library... Read more
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No More Tears
By: Gardiner Harris
Narrated by: Gardiner Harris
Length: 14 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER âą An explosive, deeply reported exposĂ© of Johnson & Johnson, one of Americaâs oldest and most trusted pharmaceutical companiesâfrom an award-winning investigative journalist
âA page-turning drama that raises life-or-death questions about the worldâs largest healthcare conglomerate.ââJonathan Eig, Pulitzer... Read more


Madness
By: Antonia Hylton
Narrated by: Antonia Hylton
Length: 11 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nationâs last segregated asylums, told by an award-winning journalist on her decade-long search for sanity in Americaâs mental healthcare system.Â
On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the... Read more


The New Menopause
By: Mary Claire Haver, MD
Narrated by: Mary Claire Haver, MD
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Filling a gaping hole in menopause care, everything a woman needs to know to thrive during her hormonal transition and beyond, as well as the tools to help her take charge of her health at this pivotal life stageâby the bestselling author of The Galveston Diet.
Menopause is inevitable, but suffering through it is not! This is the empowering... Read more


The Wisdom of Plagues
By: Donald G. McNeil
Narrated by: Donald G. McNeil
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Award-winning New York Times reporter Donald G. McNeil, Jr. reflects on twenty-five years of covering pandemicsâhow governments react to them, how the media covers them, how they are exploited, and what we can do to prepare for the next oneâin this âfascinating, ferocious fusillade against humanityâs two deadliest enemies: disease and itselfâ... Read more
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Between Two Kingdoms
By: Suleika Jaouad
Narrated by: Suleika Jaouad
Length: 13 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER âą A deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young womanâs journey from diagnosis to remission to re-entry into ânormalâ lifeâfrom the founder of The Isolation Journals and a subject of the Netflix documentary American Symphony
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The... Read more


The Myth of Normal
By: Gabor Maté, MD & Daniel Maté
Narrated by: Daniel Maté
Length: 18 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
The instant New York Times bestseller
By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the causes of illness, a bracing critique of how our society breeds disease, and a pathway to health and healing.
In this revolutionary book, renowned physician Gabor Maté eloquently dissects how in Western countries... Read more


All in Her Head
By: Elizabeth Comen
Narrated by: Anna Caputo
Length: 13 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
USA Today BestsellerA surprising, groundbreaking, and fiercely entertaining medical history that is both a collective narrative of womenâs bodies and a call to action for a new conversation around womenâs health.For as long as medicine has been a practice, women's bodies have been treated like objects to be practiced on: examined and ignored,... Read more
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When the Body Says No
By: Gabor Maté, MD
Narrated by: Daniel Maté
Length: 11 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
From renowned mental health expert and speaker Dr. Gabor Maté, this acclaimed, bestselling guide provides insight into the mind-body link between illness and health, and the critical role that stress and our emotional makeup play in an array of common diseases.
In this accessible and groundbreaking bookâfilled with the... Read more


What Happened to You?
By: Oprah Winfrey & Bruce D. Perry
Narrated by: Bruce D. Perry & Oprah Winfrey
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
"[Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry] are both capable, likable narrators who are sincerely engaged with their subject matter...The performances of these two humanitarians make this a must-hear for anyone recovering from their traumatic past." âAudioFile
This program is read by the authors.
Our earliest experiences shape our lives far down the... Read more


How to Change Your Mind
By: Michael Pollan
Narrated by: Michael Pollan
Length: 13 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
âPollan keeps you turning the pages . . . cleareyed and assured.â âNew York Times
A #1 New York Times Bestseller, New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018, and New York Times Notable Book
A brilliant and brave investigation into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugsâand the spellbinding story of his... Read more


Crackdown
By: Garth Mullins
Narrated by: Garth Mullins
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Part memoir, part manifesto, Crackdown is a story of the drug war, told from the frontlines.
Garth Mullins was born into a world too bright for him to fully see, and too unforgiving to fully accept him. Bullied by both kids and adults, who mocked his albinism and trivialized his blindness, Garth turned to activism and punk rock, seeking escape,... Read more


The Cure for Women
By: Lydia Reeder
Narrated by: Sara Sheckells
Length: 14 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
How Victorian male doctors used false science to argue that women were unfit for anything but motherhoodâand the brilliant doctor who defied them. After Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to graduate from medical school, more women demanded a chance to study medicine. Barred entrance to universities like Harvard, women built their own... Read more
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Bad Blood
By: John Carreyrou
Narrated by: Will Damron
Length: 11 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER âą The gripping story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranosâone of the biggest corporate frauds in historyâa tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley, rigorously reported by the prize-winning journalist. With a new Afterword.
âChilling ... Reads like a thriller ... Carreyrou tells [the Theranos story]... Read more


How Not to Fit In
By: Jess Joy & Charlotte Mia
Narrated by: Emily Essery
Length: 7 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
âThe lack of information around how ADHD and autism shows up in adults means that many of us have been assuming we were anxious, not working hard enough, or just entirely failing altogether.â â Jess Joy and Charlotte Mia Written by two late-diagnosed neurodivergent women... Read more
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Hidden Valley Road
By: Robert Kolker
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
Length: 13 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER âą OPRAHâS BOOK CLUB PICK âą ONE OF GQ's TOP 50 BOOKS OF LITERARY JOURNALISM IN THE 21st CENTURY âą The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease.
"Reads like a medical... Read more


Unshrunk
By: Laura Delano
Narrated by: Laura Delano
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
âDelanoâs story is compelling, important and even haunting. . . . Her memoir evokes Girl, Interrupted for the age of the prescription pill. . . . In Unshrunk, she tells her own story, and she tells it powerfully.â âCasey Schwartz, The New York Times Book Review
âA must read for anyone probing the dark side of mental health treatment.â âAnna... Read more


Proof of Heaven
By: Eben Alexander
Narrated by: Eben Alexander
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
The #1 New York Times bestselling account of a neurosurgeon's own near-death experienceâfor readers of 7 Lessons from Heaven.
Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those scientists. A highly trained neurosurgeon, Alexander knew that NDEs feel real,... Read more


The Body
By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Bill Bryson
Length: 14 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER âą A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POSTÂ âą LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD
"Glorious. . .You will marvel at the brilliance and vast weirdness of your design." âThe Washington Post
Bill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes us on a... Read more


The Emergency
By: Thomas Fisher
Narrated by: Thomas Fisher
Length: 7 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
The riveting, pulse-pounding story of a year in the life of an emergency room doctor trying to steer his patients and colleagues through a crushing pandemic and a violent summer, amidst a healthcare system that seems determined to leave them behind
âGripping . . . eloquent . . . This book reminds us how permanently interesting our bodies are,... Read more


Stiff
By: Mary Roach
Narrated by: Shelly Frasier
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem.
For 2,000 years, cadaversâsome willingly, some unwittinglyâhave been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to... Read more


I Heard There Was a Secret Chord
By: Daniel J. Levitin
Narrated by: Daniel J. Levitin
Length: 12 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Music is one of humanityâs oldest medicines. From the Far East to the Ottoman Empire, Europe to Africa and the pre-colonial Americas, many cultures have developed their own rich traditions for using sound and rhythm to ease suffering, promote healing, and calm the mind.
In his latest work, neuroscientist and New York Times best-selling author... Read more