Medicine audiobooks

A Surgeon and a Maverick

By: Simon Pearson & Fiona Gorman

Narrated by: Charles Johnston

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

“[A] remarkable journey.”—The Telegraph

The incredible life story of legendary cardiac surgeon and scientist Magdi Yacoub, an outsider who succeeded against the odds

Veteran journalists Simon Pearson and Fiona Gorman follow the remarkable life of heart surgeon Magdi Yacoub from his formative years in Egypt, through spectacular... Read more

Workbook: The Body Keeps the Score

By: Liam Daniels & Alice Moore

Narrated by: Graham Lincoln

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Note: This audiobook is included (for free) inside its respective print and e-book versions.To many people, trauma is something that happens to soldiers and refugees, far away and out of sight. But in fact, trauma is the single greatest threat to public health and well-being that America has ever seen. As humans, we are exposed to a horde of... Read more

آلام الظهر

By: Owen Jones

Narrated by: Sherine El-Hakim

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

أصبح ألم الظهر من أكثر الأمراض انتشارًا في العالم. هذا مُؤْسِفٌ جِدًّا، لأن آلام الظهر التي لم تنجم عن صدمة واحدة يمكن الوقاية منها إلى حد كبير، لكن في معظم الوقت ناتجة عن الجهل. أصبحت آلام الظهر واحدة من أشهر أعذار المخادعين، نظرًا لأنه صعب للغاية التشكيك فيها، فأن بعض الأشخاص استخدموها كذريعة لأخذ إجازة من العمل رغم صحتهم الجيدة. ياله من أمرٌ... Read more

Insomnia No More: A Comprehensive Meditation Program for Deep Sleep

By: Sandeep Verma

Narrated by: Sandeep Verma

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Improve Sleep Quality: This course explores the importance of sleep & its impact on health. Learn yogic breathing practices, meditation, & lifestyle changes to restore natural rhythms, overcome sleep problems, & gain sharper mental function, abundant energy, positive mood, & alertness. Ideal for those with occasional or chronic... Read more

The Graft

By: Edmund O. Lawler

Narrated by: Edmund O. Lawler

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

The first human organ transplant in 1950 at a suburban hospital is the focus of The Graft: How a Pioneering Operation Sparked the Modern Age of Organ Transplants. The book examines the controversies the operation generated and the progress medicine has made in organ transplantation. Read more

Managing Anxiety: A Step-by-Step Guide to Calming the Storm

By: Sandeep Verma

Narrated by: Sandeep Verma

Length: 23 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Anxiety disorders are prevalent mental health issues. While everyone encounters stress and anxiety at some point, triggers vary from person to person. Some may experience anxiety in social situations, while others may feel it when faced with heights. The scale of anxiety differs as well, with some perceiving it as a background worry and others... Read more

Hot Spot

By: Alex Jahangir

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

When Nashville identified its first case of coronavirus in March 2020, the city was between Public Health Department directors and as unprepared as the rest of the world for what was to come. Dr. Alex Jahangir, a trauma surgeon acting at that time as chair of the Metro Nashville Board of Health, unexpectedly found himself head of the city's... Read more

Rough Magic

By: Miranda Newman

Narrated by: Rebecca Auerbach

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER. A GLOBE AND MAIL READER'S FAVOURITE.

A harrowing but ultimately uplifting memoir about living with borderline personality disorder—the most stigmatized diagnosis in mental health.

“I didn’t know whether to take you to a psychologist or an exorcist.”

This is how Miranda Newman’s mother described the experience of trying... Read more

Fragmented

By: Ilana Yurkiewicz, MD

Narrated by: Ilana Yurkiewicz, MD

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

There's an unspoken assumption when we go to see a doctor: the doctor knows our medical story and is making decisions based on that story. But reality often falls short. Medical records vanish when we switch doctors. Critical details of life-saving treatment plans get lost in muddled electronic charts. The doctors we see change according to... Read more

The Wild Mandrake

By: Jason Jobin

Narrated by: Alex Mortensen

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Doctors used to tell him he was cured. That was a long time ago. Ever since he first left home at age nineteen, writer Jason Jobin has had cancer. Every five years, like clockwork, it relapses, and yet he always pulls through, surrounded by friends and family but isolated by illness. Chemotherapy, surgeries, radiation—these persist, but they... Read more

Manifest Abundance While You Sleep: Secret Affirmations to Attract Money

By: Harmooni

Narrated by: Shani Marisa

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you ever dream of unlocking a wellspring of wealth while you sleep? What if the pathway to abundance could be found in your dreams? Discover the secret to rewiring your subconscious mind for success with this groundbreaking audio resource.
This isn't a collection of overused platitudes, but a powerful compilation of scientifically-backed,... Read more

Committed

By: Suzanne Scanlon

Narrated by: Suzanne Scanlon

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A raw and masterful memoir about becoming a woman and going mad—and doing both at once.
 
When Suzanne Scanlon was a student at Barnard in the 90s, grieving the loss of her mother—feeling untethered and swimming through inarticulable pain—she made a suicide attempt that landed her in the New York State Psychiatric Institute.
 
After nearly three... Read more

Sisters of the East End

By: Helen Batten

Narrated by: Annie Aldington

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

‘A second’s silence and then an almighty scream. It was the most moving thing I had ever seen … A baby, a real live baby, another human life had entered the world. It didn’t seem possible and yet I had witnessed it with my very own eyes.’

Born into a happy working-class North London family in the mid-twentieth century, Katie is determined to ‘do... Read more

Stand By Me

By: Allison J. Applebaum

Narrated by: Eunice Wong

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

“Warm, compassionate, and brimming with wisdom and expert advice” (Kate Washington, author of Already Toast), Stand By Me provides caregivers with new ways to juggle the responsibilities and emotional ups and downs of caregiving.

As the founder of the only devoted Caregivers Clinic in the country, clinical psychologist Dr. Allison Applebaum is no... Read more

Profiles in Mental Health Courage

By: Patrick J. Kennedy & Stephen Fried

Narrated by: Johnny Heller & Patrick J. Kennedy

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

One of Harvard Public Health Magazine's Best Public Health Books of the Year

Profiles in Mental Health Courage portrays the dramatic journeys of a diverse group of Americans who have struggled with their mental health. This book offers deeply compelling stories about the bravery and resilience of those living with a variety of mental illnesses... Read more

Borderline

By: Alexander Kriss, PhD

Narrated by: Max Newland

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

An intimate, compassionate, and expansive portrait of Borderline Personality Disorder that rejects the conventional wisdom that this condition is untreatable, told by a psychologist who specializes in BPD

Mental illness is heavily stigmatized within our society, and within this already marginalized group, folks with BPD are deemed especially... Read more

Silent Witnesses

By: Nigel McCrery

Narrated by: William Gaminara

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A crime scene. A murder. A mystery.

The most important person on the scene? The forensic scientist. And yet the intricate details of their work remains a mystery to most of us.

Silent Witnesses looks at the history of forensic science over the last two centuries, during which time a combination of remarkable intuition, painstaking observation and... Read more

Psychedelics

By: Professor David Nutt

Narrated by: Professor David Nutt

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive guide to the science of psychedelics and how they can impact our health by world-renowned, leading authority Professor David Nutt. We are on the cusp of a major revolution in psychiatric medicine and neuroscience. After fifty years of prohibition, criminalization and fear, science is finally showing us that psychedelics are not... Read more

Die digitale Pille

By: Andreas Herrmann, Annette Mönninghoff, Christop...

Narrated by: Sebastian Pappenberger

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Unser Gesundheitssystem steht unter hohem Veränderungsdruck: Wir leben aufgrund bahnbrechender medizinischer Fortschritte immer länger, jedoch führt unser zunehmend ungesunder Lebensstil dazu, dass wir immer häufiger an chronischen Krankheiten leiden. Dies treibt die Kosten im Gesundheitswesen in die Höhe und bringt unser erfolgreiches System... Read more

Weizenwampe 2022

By: William Davis

Narrated by: Uwe Thoma

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Der revolutionäre Ernährungs-Bestseller in aktualisierter und erweiterter Ausgabe – mit neuesten Forschungsergebnissen und Ernährungsstrategien. Brot, Gebäck, Pizza, Pasta – Weizen ist in unserer Nahrung allgegenwärtig. Doch kaum jemand weiß, was für ein gesundheitsschädigender Dickmacher das goldgelbe Korn ist. Denn in der zweiten Hälfte des... Read more

Erkranken schadet Ihrer Gesundheit

By: Bernd Hontschik

Narrated by: Uwe Thoma

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Es tut sich was in unserem Gesundheitswesen, schon lange, in kleinen, unmerklichen Schritten und immer in die gleiche beunruhigende Richtung: Es ist die Verwandlung der Humanmedizin in einen profitorientierten Industriezweig - auf Kosten der Patienten und des Allgemeinwohls. In das Gesundheitswesen hat unsere Gesellschaft bislang einen Teil... Read more

Die CureVac-Story

By: Wolfgang Klein

Narrated by: Sebastian Pappenberger

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Alles begann mit einer Doktorarbeit und der Entdeckung des medizinischen Potenzials des Botenmoleküls messenger RNA. Am Ende stehen prominente Investoren wie Dietmar Hopp oder die Gates-Stiftung, Hunderte Millionen staatlicher Finanzierung, der Aufstieg zum Börsenstar und zum erfolgreichen Impfstoffentwickler. Dazwischen liegt ein steiniger Weg... Read more

Exercise-A Master Healer. Exercising Your Mind, Body and Spirit Together: Excellent Key to a Super Human State of Higher Consciousness.

By: Dr. George Akinkuoye

Narrated by: Layla Fatima

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn Why People who engage in Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Exercises Live a Healthier, Younger, and Fulfilling Life. Connect to the Infinite through Simple Exercises and cut years off your age! Read more

Scrum para No Informáticos

By: Antonio Montes Orozco

Narrated by: Antonio Montes Orozco

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Scrum es una metodología de trabajo en equipo diseñada para desarrollar productos informáticos. Se inició en los años 90, y a día de hoy es la más utilizada en el mundo software. Las multinacionales más punteras la utilizan: Google, Amazon, Facebook, Banco ING, Banco BBVA, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, etc. Es una metodología que ayuda a crear... Read more