Medicine audiobooks

In My Hands

By: Steven A. Curley

Narrated by: Steven A. Curley

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In In My Hands, surgical oncologist Dr. Steven Curley shares the empowering lessons he's learned over 25 years from his cancer patients' unique stories of struggle, perseverance, and triumph.

As Chief of Surgical Oncology at Baylor College of Medicine, Dr. Steven Curley has worked with cancer patients for over two decades. While his life's work... Read more

El fin del Alzheimer

By: Dr. Dale E. Bredesen

Narrated by: Ricardo Correa

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Todos sabemos de alguien que le ha ganado la batalla al cáncer, pero nadie conoce ningún sobreviviente de Alzheimer... hasta ahora. El doctor Dale E. Bredesen, experto en enfermedades neurodegenerativas reconocido internacionalmente, reúne en esta obra los resultados de más de treinta años de investigación médica de vanguardia para crear un... Read more

Ischemic Pain

By: Nicholas Abbrey

Narrated by: Garrett Goodison

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Clinicians have discovered a variety of reasons for ischemic pain, and have come up with proven treatments to combat the said issue. Ischemic pain is caused by blood supply to an organ that does not receive sufficient oxygen or nutrients. The consequences can be dire. Cell death and ulcerations are just a few. Stabbing, sharp, biting pain may be... Read more

Dr. Patrick Walsh's Guide to Surviving Prostate Cancer

By: Patrick C. Walsh, MD & Janet Farrar Worthington

Narrated by: Rick Zieff

Length: 19 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

This guide covers every aspect of prostate cancer, from potential causes including diet to tests for diagnosis, curative treatment, and innovative means of controlling advanced stages of cancer. Read more

In Search of Memory

By: Eric R. Kandel

Narrated by: James Anderson Foster

Length: 14 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Memory binds our mental life together. We are who we are in large part because of what we learn and remember. But how does the brain create memories? Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel intertwines the intellectual history of the powerful new science of the mind—a combination of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and molecular biology—with his... Read more

Superbugs

By: William Hall, Anthony McDonnell & Jim O'Neill

Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Antibiotics are powerful drugs that can prevent and treat infections, but they are becoming less effective as a result of drug resistance. Resistance develops because the bacteria that antibiotics target can evolve ways to defend themselves against these drugs. When antibiotics fail, there is very little else to prevent an infection from... Read more

The Addiction Solution

By: Lloyd Sederer

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking, “timely and well-written” (Booklist, starred review) guide to addiction from a psychiatrist and public health doctor, offering practical, proven solutions for individuals, families, and communities dealing with substance use and abuse.

Written with warmth, accessibility, and vast authority, The Addiction Solution is a practical... Read more

Synesthesia

By: Richard E. Cytowic, MD

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

One in twenty-three people carry the genes for the synesthesia. Not a disorder but a neurological trait—like perfect pitch—synesthesia creates vividly felt cross-sensory couplings. A synesthete might hear a voice and at the same time see it as a color or shape, taste its distinctive flavor, or feel it as a physical touch.



Cytowic explains that... Read more

The Language of Kindness

By: Christie Watson

Narrated by: Christie Watson

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A moving, lyrical, beautifully-written portrait of a nurse and the lives she has touched

Christie Watson spent twenty years as a nurse, and in this intimate, poignant, and remarkably powerful book, she opens the doors of the hospital and shares its secrets. She takes us by her side down hospital corridors to visit... Read more

Your No Guilt Pregnancy Plan

By: Rebecca Schiller

Narrated by: Rebecca Schiller

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Penguin presents the audio edition of Your No Guilt Pregnancy Plan written and read by Rebecca Schiller.

Your No Guilt Pregnancy Plan is a revolutionary new guide to pregnancy and childbirth that puts the power firmly in your hands. It won't tell you what fruit your baby resembles week-by-week, but it will cover the huge shifts happening in your... Read more

Meditation Is Not What You Think

By: Jon Kabat-Zinn

Narrated by: Jon Kabat-Zinn

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Welcome to a master class in mindfulness.

Jon Kabat-Zinn is regarded as "one of the finest teachers of mindfulness you'll ever encounter" (Jack Kornfield). He has been teaching the tangible benefits of meditation in the mainstream for decades. Today, millions of people around the world have taken up a formal mindfulness meditation practice as... Read more

Chasing Hope

By: Richard M. Cohen

Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen, Richard M. Cohen & Meredith V...

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

After more than four decades living with multiple sclerosis, New York Times bestselling author Richard M. Cohen finds a flicker of hope in a groundbreaking medical procedure.

Richard Cohen struggles with failing limbs and is legally blind. He has survived two bouts of colon cancer and a life-threatening blood clot in his lungs. After enduring... Read more

Brain Food

By: Lisa Mosconi, PhD

Narrated by: Norah Tocci

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. Lisa Mosconi, whose research spans an extraordinary range of specialties including brain science, the microbiome, and nutritional genomics, notes that the dietary needs of the brain are substantially different from those of the other organs, yet few of us have any idea what they might be. Her innovative approach to cognitive health... Read more

Beauty in the Broken Places

By: Allison Pataki

Narrated by: Allison Pataki

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A deeply moving memoir about a couple whose lives were changed in the blink of an eye, and the love that helped them rewrite their future.

Five months pregnant, on a flight to their "babymoon," Allison Pataki turned to her husband when he asked if his eye looked strange, and watched him suddenly lose consciousness. After an emergency landing, she... Read more

Deadly Companions

By: Dorothy H. Crawford

Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Ever since we started huddling together in communities, the story of human history has been inextricably entwined with the story of microbes. They have evolved and spread amongst us, shaping our culture through infection, disease, and pandemic. At the same time, our changing human culture has itself influenced the evolutionary path of microbes.... Read more

The Man He Used To Be

By: Robyn Hollingworth

Narrated by: Robyn Hollingworth

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

'This is a wonderful, rather special book: funny, warm and loving but also thought-provoking and deeply moving. Absolutely unforgettable - ironically.' ADAM KAY, Sunday Times bestselling author of This Is Going To Hurt

Inadvertent cross-dressing. Attempted murder. Jail break. A waltz at a funeral. A hernia the size of Guernsey.

Heartbreaking ... Read more

The Quiet Rise of Introverts

By: Brenda Knowles

Narrated by: Christine Williams

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Many introverts in our world: More and more, people are identifying as introverts. Studies show that at least one-third of the people we encounter in our lives are introverts.Introverts and relationships: The Quiet Rise of Introverts: 8 Practices for Living and Loving in a Noisy World is a guide to help tenderhearted and introverted individuals... Read more

The Beauty of Dirty Skin

By: Whitney Bowe

Narrated by: Whitney Bowe & Lauren Ruff

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Internationally renowned dermatologist and research scientist Dr. Whitney Bowe presents, for the first time, the connection between a healthy gut and radiant, clear skin, with a 21-day program to maximize skin health and beauty.

Every year, nearly 80 million Americans will consult their doctors about their skin. In fact, skin disorders beat out... Read more

Life on the Ground Floor

By: Dr. James Maskalyk

Narrated by: Dr. James Maskalyk

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

*Canada Reads 2019 Longlist
*Winner of the 2017 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction

Do no harm is our most important rule, but we break it all the time trying to do good.
 
In this deeply personal book, winner of the 2017 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, humanitarian doctor and activist James Maskalyk reflects upon... Read more

My Patients and Other Animals

By: Suzy Fincham-Gray

Narrated by: Suzy Fincham-Gray

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A moving memoir of a life spent in the company of animals—a veterinarian sheds light on the universal experience of loving, healing, and losing our beloved pets, and the many ways they change our lives.
 
The pursuit of a childhood dream has taken Suzy Fincham-Gray on a journey in veterinary medicine from pastoral farms on the English–Welsh border... Read more

Things That Helped

By: Jessica Friedmann

Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Things That Helped is a memoir in essays, detailing the Australian writer Jessica Friedmann's recovery from postpartum depression. In each essay she focuses on a separate totemic object—from pho to red lips to the musician Anohni—to tell a story that is both deeply personal and culturally resonant. Drawing on critical theory, popular culture,... Read more

Wits Guts Grit

By: Jena Pincott

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Wits Guts Grit is inspired by the many what-if questions acclaimed science writer and mother of two Jena Pincott asked herself as research on how the invisible forces that shape our minds and health has emerged and grown over the past decade.What if we identify the microbes that support stress resilience, find ways to expose our kids to them,... Read more

The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind

By: Barbara K. Lipska

Narrated by: Emma Powell

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In January 2015, Barbara Lipska—a leading expert on the neuroscience of mental illness—was diagnosed with melanoma that had spread to her brain. Within months, her frontal lobe, the seat of cognition, began shutting down. She descended into madness, exhibiting dementia—and schizophrenia—like symptoms that terrified her family and coworkers. But... Read more

Because We Are Bad

By: Lily Bailey

Narrated by: Lily Bailey

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Written with the indelible power of Girl, Interrupted, Brain on Fire, and Reasons to Stay Alive, a lyrical, poignant memoir by a young woman about her childhood battle with debilitating obsessive compulsive disorder, and her hard-won journey to recovery.By the age of thirteen, Lily Bailey was convinced she was bad. She had killed someone with a... Read more