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, award-winning author and passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the worldâs deadliest infectious disease.
âThe real magic of Greenâs writing is the... 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


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


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


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


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


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 BookÂ
A brilliant and brave investigation into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbinding story of his... Read more


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


Shattered
By: Hanif Kureishi
Narrated by: Art Malik
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
From acclaimed author and playwright Hanif Kureishi comes an urgent and stunning memoir about rebuilding a new life in the wake of devastating physical loss.In late 2022, in Rome, Hanif Kureishi had a fall. When he came to, he realized he could no longer walk. He could do nothing without the help of others and required constant care in a... 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


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


Hidden Valley Road
By: Robert Kolker
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
Length: 13 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERÂ 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


The Black Angels
By: Maria Smilios
Narrated by: Gina Daniels
Length: 12 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remarkable true story of the Black nurses who helped cure one of the worldâs deadliest plagues: tuberculosis.
During those dark pre-antibiotic days, when tuberculosis killed one in seven people, white nurses at Sea View, New Yorkâs largest municipal... Read more


Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve
By: Stanley Rosenberg
Narrated by: Derek Botten
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
The bestselling guide to the vagus nerve, now in 20+ languages: unlock the self-healing power of Stephen Porgesâs Polyvagal Theory
Vagus exercises for reducing anxiety, healing trauma, and rebalancing your autonomic nervous system
This comprehensive guide offers an easy-to-understand overview of the vagus nerveâand helps you unlock your bodyâs... Read more


The Gene
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
Length: 19 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
2017 Audie Award Finalist for Non-Fiction
The #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller
The basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate History
From the Pulitzer Prizeâwinning author of The Emperor of All Maladiesâa fascinating history of the gene and âa magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously, ingeniously picked apart what... Read more


On Call
By: Anthony Fauci, M.D.
Narrated by: Anthony Fauci, M.D.
Length: 19 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 New York Times Bestseller
The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and whose six-decade career in high-level public service put him in the room with seven presidents
âAn eventful autobiography [and] a classic American storyâŠGripping.ââThe Washington Post
âOne of the most consequential and most... Read more


Adaptable
By: Herman Pontzer PhD
Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
A new understanding of how our bodies work, how to keep them healthy, and how our biological diversity unites us rather than divides us
How does the body workâand why does it seem to work so differently for each of us? Why do we grow tall or short, obese or slim? Why do some of us stay healthy despite our bad habits while others who do all the... Read more


Vagina Obscura
By: Rachel E. Gross
Narrated by: Siho Ellsmore
Length: 10 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
A scientific journey to the center of the new female body.
The Latin term for the female genitalia, pudendum, means âparts for which you should be ashamed.â Until 1651, ovaries were called female testicles. The fallopian tubes are named for a man. Named, claimed, and shamed: Welcome to the story of the female body, as penned by men.
Today, a 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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Air-Borne
By: Carl Zimmer
Narrated by: Joe Ochman
Length: 15 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
The fascinating, untold story of the air we breathe, the hidden life it contains, and invisible dangers that can turn the world upside down
Every day we draw in two thousand gallons of airâand thousands of living things. From the ground to the stratosphere, the air teems with invisible life. This last great biological frontier remains so... Read more


The Song of the Cell
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
Length: 16 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauqua Prize!
Named a New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Oprah Daily, BookPage, Book Riot, the New York Public Library, and more!
In The Song of the Cell, the extraordinary author of the Pulitzer Prizeâwinning... Read more


The Year I Met My Brain
By: Matilda Boseley
Narrated by: Matilda Boseley
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Matilda Boseley's adult ADHD diagnosis was a massive, earth-shattering event. She was given a prescription but had no idea what ADHD meant for her identity, her relationships or her future.
Twelve months of confusion later, journalist Matilda embarked on an epic voyage to figure out what's really happening in the stormy seas of the ADHD brain and... 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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Rough Sleepers
By: Tracy Kidder
Narrated by: Tracy Kidder
Length: 8 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER âą The powerful story of an inspiring doctor who made a difference, by helping to create a program to care for Bostonâs homeless communityâby the Pulitzer Prizeâwinning, New York Times bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains
âI couldnât put Rough Sleepers down. I am left in awe of the human spirit and inspired to... Read more