Medicine audiobooks

The Cancer Chronicles

By: George Johnson

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

When the woman he loved was diagnosed with a metastatic cancer, science writer George Johnson embarked on a journey to learn everything he could about the disease and the people who dedicate their lives to understanding and combating it. What he discovered is a revolution under way—an explosion of new ideas about what cancer really is and where... Read more

The Sports Gene

By: David Epstein

Narrated by: David Epstein

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In high school, I wondered whether the Jamaican Americans who made our track team so successful might carry some special speed gene from their tiny island. In college, I ran against Kenyans, and wondered whether endurance genes might have traveled with them from East Africa. At the same time, I began to notice that a training group on my team... Read more

Touching a Nerve

By: Patricia S. Churchland

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A trailblazing philosopher’s exploration of the latest brain science—and its ethical and practical implications.

What happens when we accept that everything we feel and think stems not from an immaterial spirit but from electrical and chemical activity in our brains? In this thought-provoking narrative—drawn from professional expertise as well as... Read more

Coaching for Performance

By: Sir John Whitmore

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

Completely Revised 4th Edition of the 500,000 Copy Bestseller! Coaching is a way of managing, a way of treating people, a way of thinking, a way of being. Coaching has matured into an invaluable profession fit for our times and this fourth edition of the most widely read coaching book takes it to the next frontier. — John Whitmore Good coaching... Read more

The Immune System Recovery Plan

By: Susan Blum, MD, MPH

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The most prevalent form of chronic illness in this country, autoimmune diseases affect nearly 23.5 million Americans. This epidemic—a result of the toxins in our diet, our exposure to chemicals, heavy metals, antibiotics, and unprecedented stress levels—has caused millions of people to suffer from diseases like Graves' disease, rheumatoid... Read more

Second Suns

By: David Oliver Relin

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 15 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

From the co-author of Three Cups of Tea comes the inspiring story of two very different doctors—one from the United States, the other from Nepal—united in a common mission: to rid the world of preventable blindness.
 
In this transporting book, David Oliver Relin shines a light on the work of Geoffrey Tabin and Sanduk Ruit, gifted... Read more

Coping With Alzheimer's

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

After being diagnosed with Alzheimer's, professional artist Mary Wyant slowly lost her ability to paint and the ability to take care of herself. Ray Suarez examines the story of Mary and her daughter Rebecca, who is now her mother's legal guardian and primary caretaker, and the daily struggles of long-term care. Read more

Brotherhood

By: Deepak Chopra & Sanjiv Chopra

Narrated by: Deepak Chopra & Sanjiv Chopra

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In Brotherhood, Deepak and Sanjiv Chopra reveal the story of their personal struggles and triumphs as doctors, immigrants, and brothers. They were born in the ferment of liberated India after 1947, as an age-old culture was reinventing its future. For the young, this meant looking to the West. The Chopra brothers were among the most eager and... Read more

Permanent Present Tense

By: Suzanne Corkin

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 13 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Permanent Present Tense tells the incredible story of Henry Gustav Molaison, known only as H. M. until his death in 2008. In 1953, at the age of twenty-seven, Molaison underwent a dangerous “psychosurgical” procedure intended to alleviate his debilitating epilepsy. The surgery went horribly wrong, and when Molaison awoke he was unable to store... Read more

WomanCode

By: Alisa Vitti

Narrated by: Alisa Vitti

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

With WomanCode, holistic health coach Alisa Vitti shows women how to maintain health and vitality with a food-based program to rebalance their hormones.Alisa Vitti found herself suffering through the symptoms of polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), and was able to heal herself through food and lifestyle changes. Relieved and reborn, she made it... Read more

77 Questions for Skillful Living

By: Michael Finkelstein

Narrated by: Michael Finkelstein

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

What would you do with your life if your health were completely restored?Go beyond conventional medicine with this revolutionary guide to understanding wellness on a deeper level.Are you as healthy as you could be, as healthy as you would like to be?Do you wake up feeling rested? Do you feel physically attractive? Do you give yourself more... Read more

In the Body of the World

By: Eve Ensler

Narrated by: Eve Ensler

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues and one of Newsweek's 150 Women Who Changed the World, a visionary memoir of separation and connection—to the body, the self, and the world

Playwright, author, and activist Eve Ensler has devoted her life to the female body—how to talk about it, how to protect and value it. Yet she spent much... Read more

Clean Gut

By: Alejandro Junger

Narrated by: Alejandro Junger

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In Clean Gut, Alejandro Junger, M.D, New York Times bestselling author of Clean and creator of the world-famous Clean Program, delivers a complete toolkit for reversing disease and sustaining life-long health.All of today’s most-diagnosed ailments can be traced back to an injured and irritated gut. The gut is an intricate and powerful system,... Read more

God's Hotel

By: Victoria Sweet

Narrated by: Victoria Sweet

Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the hôtel-Dieu (God's hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Ages. Ballet dancers and rock musicians, professors and thieves—"anyone who had fallen, or, often, leapt, onto hard times" and needed extended medical care—ended up here. So did Victoria... Read more

Tell Me the Truth, Doctor Unabridged DA

By: Richard Besser

Narrated by: Richard Besser

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Emmy award winning investigative journalist and medical professional Dr. Besser separates fact from fiction in this helpful healthcare guide that smashes harmful medical misconceptions.

"Hey, Doc--Got a Minute?"

No matter where Dr. Richard Besser goes, a day doesn't go by without someone stopping him to ask that question. Often, that person is one... Read more

Man 2.0 Engineering the Alpha

By: John Romaniello & Adam Bornstein

Narrated by: John Romaniello & Adam Bornstein

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

Every man has the potential for a great body, insane sex, and an unreal life. (Seriously) Want to lose body fat? That's easy—you can drop 20 pounds in 6 weeks. Want bigger muscles? Done. A 50-pound increase to your bench press, coming right up. Want to be smarter? Not a problem—the strategies in this book have been proven to increase brain... Read more

The Good Nurse

By: Charles Graeber

Narrated by: Will Collyer

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The mesmerizing basis of the movie starring Eddie Redmayne and Jessica Chastain⁠—a “stunning book...that should and does bring to mind In Cold Blood”—takes you inside the mind of America's most prolific serial killer, whose 16-year long "nursing" career left as many as 400 dead. (New York Times)    
 
Edgar Award Nomination, Mystery Writers of... Read more

Erasing Death

By: Sam Parnia & Josh Young

Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Contrary to popular belief, death is not a moment in time, such as when the heart stops beating, respiration ceases, or the brain stops functioning. Death, rather, is a process—a process that can be interrupted well after it has begun. Innovative techniques, such as drastically reducing the patient's body temperature, have proven to be effective... Read more

The Spark

By: Kristine Barnett

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Kristine Barnett’s son Jacob has an IQ higher than Einstein’s, a photographic memory, and he taught himself calculus in two weeks. At nine he started working on an original theory in astrophysics that experts believe may someday put him in line for a Nobel Prize, and at age twelve he became a paid researcher in quantum physics. But the story of... Read more

How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who’s Sick

By: Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone knows someone who's sick or suffering. Yet when a friend or relative is under duress many of us feel uncertain about how to cope.Throughout her recent bout with breast cancer, Letty Cottin Pogrebin became fascinated by her friends' and family's diverse reactions to her and her illness: how awkwardly some of them behaved, how some... Read more

Dementia Care

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A 2013 study by the RAND Corporation estimates the cost of dementia care as $41,000 to $56,000 annually per patient. PBS NewsHour correspondent Jeffrey Brown examines the findings and implications with Dr. Ronald Petersen, director of the Mayo Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, and Dr. Richard Hodes, director of the National Institute on Aging. Read more

Clean

By: David Sheff

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 13 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

These facts are the foundation of Clean, a myth-shattering look at drug abuse by the author of Beautiful Boy. Based on the latest research in psychology, neuroscience, and medicine, Clean is a leap beyond the traditional approaches to prevention and treatment of addiction and the mental illnesses that usually accompany it. The existing treatment... Read more

The Healing Cell

By: Dr. Robin L. Smith, Tomasz Trafny & Dr. Max Gomez

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The Healing Cell is an easy to read, carefully researched, and clear-eyed view of medicine many decades in the making that is now paying off with treatments that repair damaged hearts, restore sight, kill cancer, cure diabetes, heal burns, and stop the march of such degenerative diseases as Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis, and Lou Gehrig's... Read more

The Citizen Patient

By: Nortin M. Hadler

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Conflicts of interest, misrepresentation of clinical trials, hospital price-fixing, and massive expenditures for procedures of dubious efficacy—these and other critical flaws leave little doubt that the current US health-care system is in need of an overhaul. In this essential guide, preeminent physician Nortin Hadler urges American health-care... Read more