Medicine audiobooks

A Mind of Your Own

By: Kelly Brogan, M.D. & Kristin Loberg

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Depression is not a disease. It is a symptom.Recent years have seen a shocking increase in antidepressant use the world over, with 1 in 4 women starting their day with medication. These drugs have steadily become the panacea for everything from grief, irritability, panic attacks, to insomnia, PMS, and stress.  But the truth is, what women really... Read more

Medical Apartheid

By: Harriet A. Washington

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 19 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. Starting with the earliest encounters between black Americans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, it details the ways both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted... Read more

I Had to Survive

By: Roberto Canessa & Pablo Vierci

Narrated by: various narrators, Thom Rivera, Traber Burns, E...

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

On October 13, 1972, a Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying members of the “Old Christians” rugby team—and many of their friends and family members—crashed into the Andes Mountains. I Had to Survive offers a gripping and heartrending recollection of the harrowing brink-of-death experience that propelled survivor Roberto Canessa to become one of... Read more

Lessons from a Hospital Bed

By: John Piper

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Physical sickness affects more than just our bodies; it takes a toll on our emotional and spiritual health as well. In this honest book, best-selling author John Piper shares ten lessons he learned while in the hospital. Written to help those in the hospital focus their attention on God, his grace, and his plan—when such focus can be especially... Read more

Pandemic

By: Sonia Shah

Narrated by: Sonia Shah

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of The Fever, a wide-ranging inquiry into the origins of pandemics

Interweaving history, original reportage, and personal narrative, Pandemic explores the origin of epidemics, drawing parallels between the story of cholera--one of history's most disruptive and deadly pathogens--and the new pathogens that stalk humankind today,... Read more

The Smart but Scattered Guide to Success

By: Peg Dawson, Ed.D. & Richard Guare, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Randye Kaye

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you smart, scattered, and struggling? You're not alone. Cutting-edge research shows that today's 24/7 wired world and the growing demands of work and family life may simply max out the part of the brain that manages complex tasks. That's especially true for those lacking strong executive skills—the core brain-based abilities needed to... Read more

Free Refills

By: Peter Grinspoon

Narrated by: Kiff VandenHeuvel

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Free Refills is the harrowing tale of a Harvard-trained medical doctor run horribly amok through his addiction to prescription medication, and his recovery.

Dr. Peter Grinspoon seemed to be a total success: a Harvard-educated M.D. with a thriving practice; married with two great kids and a gorgeous wife; a pillar of his community. But lurking... Read more

Heroines of Mercy Street

By: Pamela D. Toler

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A look at the lives of the real nurses depicted in the PBS show Mercy Street.

Heroines of Mercy Street tells the true stories of the nurses at Mansion House, the Alexandria, Virginia, mansion turned war-time hospital and setting for the PBS drama Mercy Street. Among the Union soldiers, doctors, wounded men from both sides, freed slaves,... Read more

ContamiNation

By: McKay Jenkins

Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A few years ago, journalism professor McKay Jenkins went in for a routine medical exam. What doctors found was not routine at all: a tumor, the size of a navel orange, was lurking in his abdomen. When Jenkins returned to the hospital to have the tumor removed, he was visited by a couple of researchers with clipboards. They had some questions for... Read more

Torn

By: Rosie Lewis

Narrated by: Madeline Gould

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Experienced foster carer Rosie Lewis faces a battle to uncover the dark family secret that is tearing a family apart. Rosie is used to looking after children from difficult home situations, but she finds herself struggling when she agrees to take in Taylor and her younger brother, Reece, for a short while. Taylor tries... Read more

NeuroLogic

By: Eliezer Sternberg

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking investigation of the brain’s hidden logic behind our strangest behaviors, and of how conscious and unconscious systems interact in order to create our experience and preserve our sense of self.
 
From bizarre dreams and hallucinations to schizophrenia and multiple personalities, the human brain is responsible for a diverse... 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 Lucky Years

By: David B. Agus

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

“If you buy just one health book this year, then get The Lucky Years” (Howard Stern). In this groundbreaking guide, bestselling author David Agus shows how we can take control of our health like never before in the brave new world of medicine.

In his first bestseller, The End of Illness, David Agus revealed how to add vibrant years to your life... Read more

A Thousand Naked Strangers

By: Kevin Hazzard

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A former paramedic’s "thrilling, captivating" (Booklist), and mordantly funny account of a decade spent as a first responder in Atlanta saving lives and connecting with the drama and occasional beauty that lies inside catastrophe.

In the aftermath of 9/11 Kevin Hazzard felt that something was missing from his life—his days were too safe, too... Read more

A Doctor in the House

By: Candy Carson

Narrated by: Candy Carson

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

 “The life of a neurosurgeon isn’t an easy one, and Ben has been required to go above and beyond the call of duty almost constantly. The life of a neu­rosurgeon’s wife isn’t much easier. But it’s all been worth it. Together, we’ve been through poverty, tragedy, wealth, and joy, and we’ve had each other’s backs. I love that guy!” —CANDY... Read more

Bedienungsanleitung für ein menschliches Gehirn

By: Gerald Hüther

Narrated by: Jan Reinartz

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Art und Weise, wie wir unser Gehirn nutzen, hat einen entscheidenden Einfluss darauf, welche neuronalen Verschaltungen angelegt und stabilisiert werden – oder auch nicht. Die innere Struktur und Organisation unseres Gehirns passt sich also an seine konkrete Benutzung an. So stellt sich also die Frage, wie wir eigentlich mit unserem Gehirn... Read more

Happy Gut

By: Vincent Pedre

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Following the success of the bestselling Clean Gut and Wheat Belly comes this essential guide to improving digestive health from an expert in functional medicine—who reveals why everything that ails us, from fatigue to weight gain to bloating and bad skin, can be traced back to the gut, and shares his cleansing plan to help us reclaim our... Read more

First Bite

By: Bee Wilson

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

We do not come into the world with an innate sense of taste and nutrition; as omnivores, we have to learn how and what to eat, how sweet is too sweet, and what food will give us the most energy for the coming day. But how does this education happen? What are the origins of taste?In First Bite, the beloved food writer Bee Wilson draws on the... Read more

Concussion (Movie Tie-in Edition)

By: Jeanne Marie Laskas

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • Dr. Bennet Omalu discovered something he could not ignore. The NFL tried to silence him. His courage would change everything.
 
“A gripping medical mystery and a dazzling portrait of the young scientist no one wanted to listen to . . . a fabulous, essential read.”—Rebecca Skloot, author... Read more

The Death of Cancer

By: Vincent T. DeVita, Jr., M.D. & Elizabeth DeVita...

Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Cancer touches everybody’s life in one way or another. But most of us know very little about how the disease works, why we treat it the way we do, and the personalities whose dedication got us where we are today. For fifty years, Dr. Vincent T. DeVita Jr. has been one of those key players: he has held just about every major position in the... Read more

Ugly: My Memoir

By: Robert Hoge

Narrated by: Robert Hoge

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Hoge was born with a giant tumour on his forehead, severely distorted facial features and legs that were twisted and useless. His mother refused to look at her son, let alone bring him home. But home he went, to a life that, against the odds, was filled with joy, optimism and boyhood naughtiness.

Home for the Hoges was a bayside suburb of... Read more

Lights and Sirens

By: Kevin Grange

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Nine months of tying tourniquets and pushing new medications, of IVs, chest compressions, and defibrillator shocks—that was Kevin Grange's initiation into emergency medicine when, at age thirty-six, he enrolled in the "Harvard of paramedic schools": UCLA's Daniel Freeman paramedic program, long considered one of the best and most intense... Read more

Slow Dancing with a Stranger

By: Meryl Comer

Narrated by: Meryl Comer

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist and leading Alzheimer’s advocate Meryl Comer’s Slow Dancing With a Stranger is a profoundly personal, unflinching account of her husband’s battle with Alzheimer’s disease that serves as a much-needed wake-up call to better understand and address a progressive and deadly affliction.When Meryl Comer’s... Read more

The Laws of Medicine

By: Siddhartha Mukherjee

Narrated by: Santino Fontana

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Essential, required reading for doctors and patients alike: A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and one of the world’s premiere cancer researchers reveals an urgent philosophy on the little-known principles that govern medicine—and how understanding these principles can empower us all.

Over a decade ago, when Siddhartha Mukherjee was a young,... Read more