Medicine audiobooks

Carl Zimmer: Planet of Viruses

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Consider these facts from Carl Zimmer’s book, A Planet of Viruses: If you put all the viruses in the ocean on a scale, they would equal the weight of 75 million blue whales. And if you lined up all those viruses end to end, “they would stretch out past the nearest 60 galaxies.”In 17th century England, Zimmer writes, cures for the rhinovirus, or... Read more

The Emperor’s New Drugs

By: Irving Kirsch

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Irving Kirsch has the world doubting the efficacy of antidepressants. Do they work, or are they no better than placebos? Like his colleagues, Kirsch spent years referring patients to psychiatrists to have their depression treated with drugs. Eventually, however, he decided to investigate for himself just how effective the drugs actually... Read more

Take Control of Your Cancer

By: James W. Forsythe

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Cancer rates continue to skyrocket, and the overall survival rate for stage IV cancer patients in the United States is a grim 2.1 percent. Clearly, the extensive use of expensive—sometimes ineffective—toxins in conventional oncology protocols is a failing strategy. Even the few survivors of these harsh slash-and-burn treatments can have a... Read more

The Vow

By: Kim Carpenter, Krickitt Carpenter & Dana Wilkerson

Narrated by: John McLain

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Life as Kim and Krickitt Carpenter knew it was shattered beyond recognition two months after their marriage when a devastating car wreck left Krickitt with a massive head injury and in a coma for weeks. When she finally awoke, she had no idea who Kim was. With no recollection of their relationship and while Krickitt experienced personality... Read more

Love, Medicine and Miracles

By: Bernie S. Siegel

Narrated by: Bernie S. Siegel

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant of the immune system. The truth is: love heals. Miracles happen to exceptional patients every day—patients who have the courage to love, those who have the courage to work with their doctors to participate in and influence their own recovery. Read more

Psychology of the Unconscious

By: Carl Jung

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 15 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally published in German as Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido, this is the book that set Carl Jung on his independent path as a psychoanalytic theorist and explorer of the mysterious world of the unconscious mind of the individual and the mythological mind of humanity. He bases his work on an exploration of Miss Frank Miller's Quelques... Read more

The Creative Destruction of Medicine

By: Eric Topol, MD

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Until very recently, if you were to ask most doctors, they would tell you there were only two kinds of medicine: the quack kind, and the evidence-based kind. The former is baseless, and the latter based on the best information human effort could buy, with carefully controlled double-blind trials, hundreds of patients, and clear indicators of... Read more

Cancer Is Not a Disease!

By: Andreas Moritz

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 14 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In Cancer Is Not a Disease!, bestselling author and internationally acclaimed health expert Andreas Moritz argues that cancer is the physical symptom of the body’s final attempt to eliminate specific life-destructive causes. He claims that removing such causes sets the precondition for complete healing of the body, mind, and emotions. This book... Read more

Heart 411

By: Marc Gillinov & Steven Nissen

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 19 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive guide to heart health from two of America’s most respected doctors at Cleveland Clinic, the number-one hospital for cardiac care in America Are you one of the eighty-two million Americans currently diagnosed with cardiovascular disease—or one of the millions more who think they are healthy but are at risk? Whether your goal is to... Read more

Immortal Bird

By: Doron Weber

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 14 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Doron Weber delivers an affecting, unforgettable account of his struggle to protect his remarkable son. Born with a congenital heart defect, Damon Weber proves a source of constant inspiration to his parents even as his father Doron searches relentlessly for a breakthrough to resolve a condition that seems destined to claim Damon's life. Living... Read more

The End of Illness

By: David B. Agus

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestseller that overturns conventional conceptions of health and illness to offer new methods for increasing vital longevity.

Can we live robustly until our last breath? Do we have to suffer from debilitating conditions and sickness? Is it possible to add more vibrant years to our lives? In the #1 New York Times bestselling... Read more

The Mindbody Prescription

By: John E. Sarno

Narrated by: Brian Holsopple

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn how to relieve chronic pain for good with this life-changing New York Times bestselling book.

Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional. Musculoskeletal pain disorders have reached epidemic proportions in the United States, with most doctors failing to recognize their underlying cause, leaving patients desperate–and still in agonizing... Read more

The Locked Ward

By: Dennis O'Donnell

Narrated by: Dennis O'Donnell

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.


An extraordinary account of a nurse's life behind the locked doors of a secure psychiatric ward.

Dennis O'Donnell started work as an orderly in the Intensive Psychiatric Care Unit of a large hospital in Scotland in 2000. In his daily life he encountered fear, violence and despair but also a considerable amount of care... Read more

Who's in Charge?

By: Michael S. Gazzaniga

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful orthodoxy in the study of the brain has taken hold in
recent years: Since physical laws govern the physical world and our own brains are part of that world, physical laws therefore govern our
behavior and even our conscious selves. Free will is meaningless, goes
the mantra; we live in a "determined" world.

Not so, argues the renowned... Read more

Good Cholesterol

By: Kerri Ryan

Narrated by: Tom Brooks

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Cholesterol, high cholesterol, ldl cholesterol, hdl cholesterol, good cholesterol levels, are all phrases for the same thing. They refer to the bodies inability to process these fats for the bodies use. When learning how cholesterol works on a molecular level, and understanding how the body uses it, you will be able to safely lower your levels... Read more

Welcome to Your Child's Brain

By: Sandra Aamodt, Ph.D. & Sam Wang, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

How children think is one of the most enduring mysteries—and
difficulties—encountered by parents. In an effort to raise our children smarter, happier, stronger, and better, parents will try almost
anything, from vitamins to toys to DVDs. But how can we tell marketing from real science? And what really goes through your kid's growing mind—as an... Read more

Yes Sister, No Sister

By: Jennifer Craig

Narrated by: Jennifer Craig

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

'What is your name?' she asks, staring at me.
'Jennifer Ross.'
'Jennifer Ross, Sister. Well, Nurse Ross, you are dressed in the uniform of a nurse from the Leeds General Infirmary. Such a uniform is not worn with a cardigan. Take it off at once.'
'Yes Sister.' I can feel my face turn red.

A trainee nurse in the 1950s had a lot to bear. In Jennifer... Read more

A Most Dangerous Method

By: John Kerr

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 22 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1907 Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung began what promised to be both a momentous collaboration and the deepest friendship of each man's life. Six years later they were bitter antagonists, locked in a savage struggle that was as much personal and emotional as it was theoretical and professional. In between them stood a young woman named... Read more

County

By: David A. Ansell

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The amazing tale of “County” is the story of one of America’s oldest and most unusual urban hospitals. From its inception as a “poor house” dispensing free medical care to indigents, Chicago’s Cook County Hospital has been both a renowned teaching hospital and the health-care provider of last resort for the city’s uninsured. County covers more... Read more

The Viral Storm

By: Nathan Wolfe

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Viral Storm, award-winning biologist Nathan Wolfe tells the story of how viruses and human beings have evolved side by side through history; how deadly viruses like HIV, swine flu, and bird flu almost wiped us out in the past; and why modern life has made our species vulnerable to the threat of a global pandemic.

Wolfe's research... Read more

The House of God

By: Samuel Shem, M.D.

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 14 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

By turns heartbreaking, hilarious, and utterly human, The House of God is a mesmerizing and provocative journey that takes us into the lives of Roy Basch and five of his fellow interns at the most renowned teaching hospital in the country. Young Dr. Basch and his irreverant confident, known only as the Fat Man, will learn not only how to be fine... Read more

The Concussion Crisis

By: Linda Carroll & David Rosner

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

For far too long, the menace of concussions has been hidden in plain sight. On playing fields across America, lives are being derailed by seemingly innocuous jolts to the head. From the peewees to the pros, concussions are reaching epidemic proportions. This book brings that hidden epidemic and its consequences out of the shadows.



As frightening... Read more

Your Medical Mind

By: Jerome Groopman & Pamela Hartzband

Narrated by: Linda Emond & Cotter Smith

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Cutting through the confusion caused by the healthcare system, the media, and gaps in our reasoning, the bestselling author of How Doctors Think gives listeners essential tools for making the medical decisions that best suit their own needs.

“This important and riveting book could change—and perhaps even save—your life.”
—Daniel Gilbert, author of... Read more

Blood Feud

By: Kathleen Sharp

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Blood-boosting Procrit is Johnson & Johnson's biotech superstar. Behind its various brand names, it ranks as Medicare's most reimbursed drug. But Procrit performs frighteningly well, and can stimulate so many blood cells that thousands of patients die in unexplained and painful ways. And that's not all: Cancer patients, who often receive... Read more