Medicine audiobooks

Genius Foods

By: Max Lugavere & Paul Grewal

Narrated by: Max Lugavere

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the critical link between your brain and the food you eat, change the way you think about how your brain ages, and achieve optimal brain performance with this powerful new guide from media personality and leading voice in health Max Lugavere.After his mother was diagnosed with a mysterious form of dementia, Max Lugavere put his... Read more

Hair Growth Hacks

By: Life 'n' Hack

Narrated by: Life 'n' Hack

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Unlock The Keys To Stop Hair Loss And Grow Hair Faster Naturally
Long, beautiful hair is often the envy and goal of many. Why is that?
Hair is an important part of a person's individuality. It can be styled and cut in many unique ways and can convey a multitude of things such as identity, personality, and status.
Unfortunately, in the process of... Read more

Practical Hypnosis

By: Instafo & Xavier Zand

Narrated by: Instafo

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Enhance Your Everyday Life With Everyday Hypnosis
"Hypnosis." The very essence of the word conjures up an image of some theatrical individual swinging a pocket watch in front of willing participants in an attempt to get them into a trancelike state, who loses all their free will and do whatever the hypnotist commands. Nothing could be further... Read more

The Strange Case of Dr. Couney

By: Dawn Raffel

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

“A mosaic mystery told in vignettes, cliffhangers, curious asides, and some surreal plot twists as Raffel investigates the secrets of the man who changed infant care in America.”—NPR, 2018's Great Reads

What kind of doctor puts his patients on display? This is the spellbinding tale of a mysterious Coney Island doctor who revolutionized neonatal... Read more

Trauma Stewardship

By: Laura van Dernoot Lipsky & Connie Burk

Narrated by: Laura van Dernoot Lipsky

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A longtime trauma worker, Laura van Dernoot Lipsky offers a deep and empathetic survey of the often-unrecognized toll taken on those working to make the world a better place. We may feel tired, cynical, or numb or like we can never do enough. These, and other symptoms, affect us individually and collectively, sapping the energy and effectiveness... Read more

Shapeshifters

By: Gavin Francis

Narrated by: Thomas Judd

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

From birth to death, a lyrical exploration of the role of transformation in human life

To be alive is to be in perpetual metamorphosis: growing, healing, learning, aging. In Shapeshifters, physician and writer Gavin Francis considers the inevitable changes all of our bodies undergo -- such as birth, puberty, and death, but also laughter,... Read more

Why We Snap

By: R. Douglas Fields

Narrated by: Graham Winton

Length: 16 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The startling new science behind sudden acts of violence committed by ordinary, sane people from a leading neurobiologist According to R. Douglas Fields, PhD, we all have a rage circuit we can't fully control once it is engaged. The daily headlines are filled with examples of otherwise rational people with no history of violence or mental... Read more

The Girl with Nine Wigs

By: Sophie van der Stap

Narrated by: Amanda Leigh Cobb

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

'It's Saturday and everything is different. No, I didn't go to the market this morning and I didn't have my usual coffee on Westerstraat. And no, I wasn't getting ready for a new semester at college. Next Monday, January 31st, I have to admit myself at the hospital for my first chemotherapy session. For the next two months, I'm expected each... Read more

The Distracted Mind

By: Adam Gazzaley & Larry D. Rosen

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

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... Read more

Morgue

By: Dr. Vincent Di Maio & Ron Franscell

Narrated by: Tony Ward

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In this clear-eyed, gritty, and enthralling narrative, Dr. Vincent Di Maio and veteran crime writer Ron Franscell guide us behind the morgue doors to tell a fascinating life story through the cases that have made Di Maio famous—from the exhumation of assassin Lee Harvey Oswald to the complex issues in the shooting of Florida teenager Trayvon... Read more

Mercies in Disguise

By: Gina Kolata

Narrated by: Andrea Gallo

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times science reporter Gina Kolata follows a family through genetic illness and one courageous daughter who decides her fate shall no longer be decided by a genetic flaw. The phone rings; the doctor has the results. "Are you ready Amanda?" The two people Amanda Baxley loves the most had begged her not to be tested. But she had to find... Read more

Bad Call

By: Mike Scardino

Narrated by: Daniel Thomas May

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

An adrenaline-fueled read that will stay with you long after you turn the final page, Bad Call is a "compulsively readable, totally unforgettable" memoir about working on a New York City ambulance in the 1960s (James Patterson).

Bad Call is Mike Scardino's visceral, fast-moving, and mordantly funny account of the summers he spent working as an... Read more

Eugenics and Other Evils

By: G. K. Chesterton

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

During the first three decades of the twentieth century, eugenics, the scientific control of human breeding, was a popular cause within enlightened and progressive segments of the English-speaking world. The New York Times eagerly supported it, gushing about the wonderful “new science.” Prominent scientists, such as the plant biologist Luther... Read more

King of Hearts

By: G. Wayne Miller

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Few of the great stories of medicine are as palpably dramatic as the advent of open heart surgery, yet, until now, no one has brought to life all of the thrilling specifics of this triumph. G. Wayne Miller has dramatically and meticulously reconstructed the amazing true story of how a group of renegade Minnesota surgeons, led by Dr. Walt... Read more

Suggestible You

By: Erik Vance

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This riveting narrative explores the world of placebos, hypnosis, false memories, and neurology to reveal the groundbreaking science of our suggestible minds. Could the secrets to personal health lie within our own brains? Journalist Erik Vance explores the surprising ways our expectations and beliefs influence our bodily responses to pain,... Read more

Doing Harm

By: Maya Dusenbery

Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg

Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In this shocking, hard-hitting exposé in the tradition of Naomi Klein and Barbara Ehrenreich, the editorial director of Feministing.com, reveals how inadequate, inappropriate, and even dangerous treatment threatens women’s lives and well-being.Editor of the award-winning site Feministing.com, Maya Dusenbery brings together scientific and... Read more

The Audacity of Inez Burns

By: Stephen G. Bloom

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

San Francisco, until the mid-1940s, was a city that lived by its own rules, fast and loose. Formed by the gold rush and destroyed by the 1906 earthquake, it served as a pleasure palace for the legions of men who sought their fortunes in the California foothills. For the women who followed, their only choice was to support, serve, or submit.Inez... 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 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

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

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 Cookie Cure

By: Susan Stachler

Narrated by: Amy Tallmadge & Janet Metzger

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A heartwarming memoir of a family that refused to give upWhen twenty-two-year-old Susan Stachler was diagnosed with cancer, her mother, Laura, was struck by déjà vu. The same illness that took her sister’s life was threatening to take her daughter’s too. Heartbroken but steadfast, Laura pledged to help Susan through the worst of her treatments.... Read more

Confessions of a Surgeon

By: Paul A. Ruggieri, MD

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

As an active surgeon and former department chairman, Dr. Paul A. Ruggieri has seen the good, the bad, and the ugly of his profession. In Confessions of a Surgeon, he pushes open the doors of the O.R. and reveals the inscrutable place where lives are improved, saved, and sometimes lost. He shares the successes, failures, remarkable advances, and... Read more

Drug Dealer, MD

By: Anna Lembke, MD

Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Three out of four people addicted to heroin probably started on a prescription opioid, according to the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the United States alone, 16,000 people die each year as a result of prescription opioid overdose. But perhaps the most frightening aspect of the prescription drug epidemic is that... Read more