Medicine audiobooks

Gulp

By: Mary Roach

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

"America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour. The alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: the questions explored in Gulp are as taboo, in their way, as the cadavers in Stiff and every bit as surreal as the universe of zero gravity explored in Packing for Mars. Why is crunchy food... Read more

The Last Best Cure

By: Donna Jackson Nakazawa

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

One day Donna Jackson Nakazawa found herself lying on the floor to recover from climbing the stairs. That’s when it hit her. She was managing the symptoms of the autoimmune disorders that had plagued her for a decade, but she had lost her joy. As a science journalist, she was curious to know what mind-body strategies might help her. As a wife... Read more

Amphetamines and Other Uppers

By: Linda Bayer

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This book will help you learn more about what stimulants are and what they do to your brain and body. Getting the facts about harmful substances is the first step to staying healthy and drug-free. Read more

Living and Dying in Brick City

By: Sampson Davis

Narrated by: Cary Hite

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a riveting personal exploration of the health-care crisis facing inner-city communities, written by an emergency room physician who grew up in the very neighborhood he is now serving.Sampson Davis is best known as one of three friends from inner-city Newark who made a pact in high school to become doctors. Their book The Pact and the... Read more

Reducing Gun Violence in America

By: Daniel W. Webster & Jon S. Vernick

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Amid a growing consensus that the staggering toll of gun violence in the United States is an urgent public health issue, the Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health has convened experts on gun policy and violence from the United States and selected other countries to summarize relevant research and its implications for... Read more

Catastrophic Care

By: David Goldhill

Narrated by: Dean Sluyter

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A visionary investigation that will change the way we think about health care: how and why it is failing, why expanding coverage will actually make things worse, and how our health care can be transformed into a transparent, affordable, successful system.
In 2007, David Goldhill’s father died from infections acquired in a hospital, one of more... Read more

Make Your Brain Smarter

By: Sandra Bond Chapman

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the world's most innovative and respected cognitive neuroscientists combines the latest scientific discoveries with unique tests and exercises to improve your brainpower—for life.The human brain is not a static organ; it's plastic, which means it can grow and change. But just like a muscle, you have to exercise it. In Make Your Brain... Read more

In Haiti, a Mission of Religion and Medicine

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Father Rick Frechette went to Haiti 25 years ago on a religious mission to shelter families "broken by tragedy." In his mid-40s, he decided to become a doctor, and then built a modern pediatric medicine facility Fred de Sam Lazaro reports as part of our Agents for Change series on the constant challenges Frechette has faced. Read more

Saving Each Other

By: Victoria Jackson & Ali Guthy

Narrated by: Amanda Troop & Lori Tritel

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

On the surface, Victoria Jackson is the American Dream personified: from a troubled childhood and unfinished high school education, she overcame immeasurable odds to create a cosmetics empire valued at more than half a billion dollars. Married to Bill Guthy — self-made principal of infomercial marketing giant Guthy-Renker — Victoria’s most... Read more

Hallucinations

By: Oliver Sacks

Narrated by: Dan Woren & Oliver Sacks

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Hallucinations don’t belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication, illness, or injury. Here Dr. Sacks weaves together stories of his patients and of his own mind-altering experiences to illuminate what hallucinations tell us about the organization and structure of our brains, how they have... Read more

Alter als Lebensform - Abridged

By: Helmut Bachmaier

Narrated by: Helmut Bachmaier

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Alter als Lebensform ist ausgerichtet auf ein tätiges Leben im Rahmen eigener Möglichkeiten und Interessen. Menschenwürde und Grundwerte dienen zur Orientierung. In der Eigen-Zeit vollziehen sich die Lebensentwürfe. Autonomie und Empathie gehören zur Lebensklugheit im Alter. Verschiedene Lebensform-Modelle und Alterskulturen, je nach... Read more

Island Practice

By: Pam Belluck

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

If you need an appendectomy, he can do it with a stone scalpel he fashioned himself. If you have a condition nobody can diagnose—"creeping eruption" perhaps—he can identify what it is and treat it. A baby with hair tourniquet syndrome, a human leg that's washed ashore, a horse with Lyme disease, a narcoleptic falling face-first in the street, a... Read more

Proof of Heaven

By: Eben Alexander

Narrated by: Eben Alexander

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestselling account of a neurosurgeon's own near-death experience—for readers of 7 Lessons from Heaven.

Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those scientists. A highly trained neurosurgeon, Alexander knew that NDEs feel real,... Read more

A World without Cancer

By: Margaret I. Cuomo

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A provocative and surprising investigation into the ways that profit, personalities, and politics obstruct real progress in the war on cancer—and one doctor's passionate call to actionAs a diagnostic radiologist who has watched patients, friends, and family suffer with and die from cancer—and who was deeply affected by the enraged husband of... Read more

Genetic Analysis of Breast Cancer

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Research published by Nature shows there are four distinct types of breast cancer and that genetic changes occurring as cancer cells spread are vastly different for each type. Judy Woodruff talks to National Cancer Institute's Dr. Harold Varmus for more on what the research could mean for treatment in the future. Read more

Intuitive Eating, 3rd Edition

By: Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 13 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic bestseller about rejecting diet mentality and finding the natural weight that’s right for you, now fully updated and revised for the intuitive eaters of todayFirst published in 1995, Intuitive Eating has become the go-to book on rebuilding a healthy body image and making peace with food. We’ve all been there—angry with ourselves for... Read more

The 17 Day Plan to Stop Aging - Abridged

By: Mike Moreno

Narrated by: Mike Moreno

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the author of the #1 bestselling The 17 Day Diet, the inspiring and easy-to-follow plan for staying young and healthy, based on the same 17 day model that made the diet the bestselling diet book of 2011.

Every year, every month, every day, every hour, every minute that you are alive, you are getting older. No matter how old you are, your... Read more

Medicare Patients Aren't Getting Sicker or Older

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The Center for Public Integrity investigated how Medicare billing changed over the past decade and found doctors were billing at much higher rates. Hari Sreenivasan talks to Center for Public Integrity's Fred Schulte to understand why doctors are 'upcoding' more and why electronic medical records could be driving higher prices. Read more

Dr. Mary's Monkey

By: Edward T. Haslam

Narrated by: Jim Meskimen

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The 1964 murder of a nationally known cancer researcher sets the stage
for this gripping exposé of medical professionals enmeshed in covert
government operations over the course of three decades. Following a
trail of police records, FBI files, cancer statistics, and medical
journals, this revealing book presents evidence of a web of medical... Read more

Overdiagnosed

By: Lisa M. Schwartz, MD, H. Gilbert Welch, MD & St...

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Going against the conventional wisdom reinforced by the medical establishment and Big Pharma that more screening is the best preventative medicine, Dr. Gilbert Welch builds a compelling counterargument that what we need are fewer, not more, diagnoses. Documenting the excesses of American medical practice that labels far too many of us as sick,... Read more

Critical Decisions

By: Peter A. Ubel

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

“As a physician and a social scientist, Peter Ubel is unparalleled in his understanding of some of the most important decisions we are facing, or will face.”
—Dan Ariely, New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational“His ideas are important, his style is accessible (with the right balance of humor and compassion) and his topic is... Read more

Mortality

By: Christopher Hitchens

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

On June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens was stricken in his New York hotel room with excruciating pain in his chest and thorax. As he would later write in the first of a series of award-winning columns for Vanity Fair, he suddenly found himself being deported "from the country of the well... Read more

January First

By: Michael Schofield

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant and harrowingly honest memoir, January First is the extraordinary story of a father's fight to save his child from an extremely severe case of mental illness in the face of overwhelming adversity.
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The Oath

By: Khassan Baiev

Narrated by: Robert O'Keefe

Length: 14 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

When Chechen rebels took Moscow theatergoers hostage in October 2002, it tragically highlighted the ongoing conflict between Russia and its breakaway republic, Chechnya-a war that has claimed an estimated 200,000 Chechen lives in the past decade. Yet the true nature of the debacle lies behind the headlines. In The Oath, a heroic Chechen doctor... Read more