Medicine audiobooks

Attachment in Psychotherapy

By: David J. Wallin

Narrated by: Bob Souer

Length: 15 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

This eloquent book translates attachment theory and research into an innovative framework that grounds adult psychotherapy in the facts of childhood development. Advancing a model of treatment as transformation through relationship, the author integrates attachment theory with neuroscience, trauma studies, relational psychotherapy, and the... Read more

The Defiant Child: A Parent's Guide to Oppositional Defiant Disorder

By: Douglas A. Riley

Narrated by: Braden Wright

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A much-needed tool that parents of children with O.D.D. can use to identify the source of this turmoil and take back parental control. Dr. Douglas Riley teaches parents how to recognize the signs, understand the attitudes, and modify the behavior of their oppositional child. Read more

Focus

By: Charles Jensen

Narrated by: Nicholas Santasier

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn to focus more deeply and intentionally!
In this world, in this 21st century, it is becoming harder and harder to stay focused. Distractions have increased, and technology and commercial advertising have not helped us much. We find ourselves in a constant battle between shifting our attention and allowing ourselves to be "caught" by the... Read more

Two Small Footprints in Wet Sand

By: Anne-Dauphine Julliand

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Thaïs is almost two. Like most well-loved children, she is happy. She laughs as she runs on the beach. But her footprints in the sand, with toes turned out, tell a different story. Two Small Footprints in Wet Sand relates the overwhelming tragedy experienced by a family as a result of a genetic disorder.A true tale told by a mother, it’s the... Read more

My Glory Was I Had Such Friends

By: Amy Silverstein

Narrated by: Erin Moon

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In this moving memoir about the power of friendship and the resilience of the human spirit, Amy Silverstein tells the story of the extraordinary group of women who supported her as she waited on the precipice for a life-saving heart transplant.Nearly twenty-six years after receiving her first heart transplant, Amy Silverstein’s donor heart... Read more

Reisen - entdecken und erleben!

By: Christine Schön

Narrated by: Christine Schön & Frank Kaspar

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Hörzeit – Radio wie früher ist ein Audiomagazin für Menschen mit Demenz im Radiostil der 1950er Jahre. Bei Menschen mit Demenz findet Erinnerung nicht mehr über kognitive Reize statt, sondern über emotionale. Dem Magazin gelingt diese emotionale Aktivierung durch bekannte Musikstücke, die Verwendung von Sprichworten und Abzählreimen, und eine... Read more

The Mouth-Body Connection

By: Gerald P. Curatola & Diane Reverand

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed oral health expert and wellness pioneer, Dr. Gerry Curatola, explores the bi-directional relationship between the health of your mouth and your body, and provides a groundbreaking program for creating a healthy mouth that will help maintain a healthy body.

The mouth acts as mirror and a gateway and reflects what is happening in the rest... Read more

Into the Gray Zone

By: Adrian Owen

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In this “riveting read, meshing memoir with scientific explication” (Nature), a world-renowned neuroscientist reveals how he learned to communicate with patients in vegetative or “gray zone” states and, more importantly, he explains what those interactions tell us about the working of our own brains.

“Vivid, emotional, and thought-provoking”... Read more

Open Heart

By: Stephen Westaby

Narrated by: Gordon Griffin

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In gripping prose, one of the world's leading cardiac surgeons lays bare both the wonder and the horror of a life spent a heartbeat away from death

When Stephen Westaby witnessed a patient die on the table during open-heart surgery for the first time, he was struck by the quiet, determined way the surgeons walked away. As he soon understood,... Read more

The Finch in My Brain

By: Martino Sclavi

Narrated by: Russell Brand & Todd Boyce

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

'It's eerily joyful to write a foreword for Martino Sclavi's book because five years ago I accepted that he was going to die.' Russell Brand.

Diagnosed with fatal brain cancer, the treatment that follows renders the writer of this extraordinary memoir unable to recognise words. This is the inspiring story he can no longer read. With a foreword... Read more

Saving Normal

By: Allen Frances, MD

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In Saving Normal, Allen Frances, one of the world's most influential psychiatrists, warns that mislabeling everyday problems as mental illness has shocking implications for individuals and society: stigmatizing a healthy person as mentally ill leads to unnecessary, harmful medications, the narrowing of horizons, misallocation of medical... Read more

Healing Children

By: Kurt Newman, M.D.

Narrated by: Kurt Newman, M.D.

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A National Bestseller

An “astounding and miraculous ” (Madeline Levine) medical memoir by one of our nation’s leading pediatric surgeons-- the visionary head of Children’s National 

Anyone who has seen a child recover from a wound or a broken bone knows that kids are made to heal. Their bodies are more resilient, more adaptive, and far more able... Read more

Prescription for the Future

By: Ezekiel J. Emanuel

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

How can America's healthcare system be transformed to provide consistently higher-quality and lower-cost care? Nothing else in healthcare matters more.

Prescription for the Future identifies some standout medical organizations that have achieved higher-quality, more patient-focused, and lower-cost care, and from their examples distills twelve... Read more

The Salt Fix

By: Dr. James J. DiNicolantonio

Narrated by: Qarie Marshall

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

We all know the dangers of sugar and salt: but the danger attributed to the second white crystal has more to do with getting too little of it, not too much. Too little salt can shift the body into semi-starvation mode, causing insulin resistance, and may even cause twice as much fat to be absorbed for every gram that's consumed. Too little salt... Read more

Humlesäcken

By: Lina Brustad

Narrated by: Signe Barfoed

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Jag minns sommaren när vi älskade på Humlesäcken. Missionären på en kal bohusklippa. Den stekande solen och den dåsiga tröttheten. Den ömma fläcken på ryggen under spännet på bikiniöverdelen.Sorg verkar inte gå över. Är det så för alla eller är det jag som har misslyckats? Jag kanske inte pratade om det tillräckligt mycket? Jag kanske borde... Read more

The Death Gap

By: David A. Ansell

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The poor die sooner. Blacks die sooner. And poor urban blacks die sooner than almost all other Americans.



David Ansell has spent nearly four decades as a doctor at hospitals serving some of the poorest communities in Chicago, and has witnessed firsthand the lives behind these devastating statistics. In The Death Gap, he gives a grim survey of... Read more

The Epigenetics Revolution

By: Nessa Carey

Narrated by: Donna Postel

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Epigenetics can potentially revolutionize our understanding of the structure and behavior of biological life on Earth. It explains why mapping an organism's genetic code is not enough to determine how it develops or acts and shows how nurture combines with nature to engineer biological diversity. Surveying the twenty-year history of the field... Read more

Fat for Fuel

By: Dr. Joseph Mercola

Narrated by: John Glouchevitch

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

For over a century, we've accepted the scientific consensus that cancer results from genetic disease due to chromosomal damage in cell nuclei. But what if cancer isn't a genetic disease after all? What if scientists are chasing a flawed paradigm, and cancer isn't a disease of damaged DNA but rather of defective metabolism as a result of... Read more

Managing the Myths of Health Care

By: Henry Mintzberg

Narrated by: Tom Kruse

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

“Health care is not failing but succeeding, expensively, and we don't want to pay for it. So the administrations, public and private alike, intervene to cut costs, and herein lies the failure.”

In this sure-to-be-controversial book, leading management thinker Henry Mintzberg turns his attention to reframing the management and organization of... Read more

Managing the Myths of Health Care

By: Henry Mintzberg

Narrated by: Tom Kruse

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Management giant Henry Mintzberg turns his attention to health care, arguing that many of the massive issues facing health care stem from the fact that it is not a cohesive system. To heal itself, health care must become less distant and opaque and more engaging and collaborative.


Mintzberg begins in part 1 by confronting myths about health care,... Read more

Crooked

By: Cathryn Jakobson Ramin

Narrated by: Cathryn Jakobson Ramin

Length: 13 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The acclaimed author of Carved in Sand—a veteran investigative journalist who endured persistent back pain for decades—delivers the definitive book on the subject: an essential examination of all facets of the back pain industry, exploring what works, what doesn't, what may cause harm, and how to get on the road to recovery.In her effort to... Read more

Miracle Cure

By: William Rosen

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The epic history of how antibiotics were born, saving millions of lives and creating a vast new industry known as Big Pharma.

As late as the 1930s, virtually no drug intended for sickness did any good; doctors could set bones, deliver babies, and offer palliative care. That all changed in less than a generation with the discovery and development... Read more

Undoctored

By: William Davis

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 15 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Conventional health care is no longer working in your favor―but thankfully, Dr. Davis is.In his New York Times bestseller Wheat Belly, Dr. William Davis changed the lives of millions of people by teaching them to remove grains from their diets to reverse years of chronic health damage. In Undoctored, he goes beyond cutting grains to help you... Read more

No Apparent Distress

By: Rachel Pearson

Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A brutally frank memoir about doctors and patients in a health care system that puts the poor at riskIn medical charts, the term “N.A.D.” (No Apparent Distress) is used for patients who appear stable. The phrase also aptly describes America’s medical system when it comes to treating the underprivileged. Medical students learn on the bodies of... Read more