Medicine audiobooks

The Doctor Will See You Now

By: Cory Franklin, MD

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Is it smart to skip your annual physical? Should you put your trust in medical research? Is "low T" an actual disease? This book will examine these questions and more you've always wondered about in a collection of fifty essays on the practice of medicine. The Doctor Will See You Now is a quirky and eclectic collection of short essays that... Read more

Surviving the Extremes

By: Kenneth Kamler, MD

Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan

Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Physiological constraints confine our bodies to less than one-fifth of the earth's surface. Beyond that fraction lie the extremes. What happens when we go to them?



Dr. Kenneth Kamler has spent years observing exactly what happens. A vice president of the legendary Explorers Club, he has climbed, dived, sledded, floated, and trekked through some... Read more

Dead Men Do Tell Tales

By: William R. Maples, PhD & Michael Browning

Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From a skeleton, a skull, or a mere fragment of burnt thighbone, prominent forensic anthropologist Dr. William Maples can deduce the age, gender, and ethnicity of a murder victim, the manner in which the person was dispatched, and, ultimately, the identity of the killer. In Dead Men Do Tell Tales, Dr. Maples revisits his strangest, most... Read more

The Doctor Will See You Now

By: Tamer Seckin, MD

Narrated by: Paul Woodson & Gabra Zackman

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Endometriosis materializes when the endometrium—the tissue that lines the inside of the uterus—sheds, but does not exit a woman's body during her period. Instead, it grows outside of the uterus, spreading to organs and nerves in and around the pelvic region. The resulting pain is so physically and emotionally insufferable that it can mercilessly... Read more

Cells Are the New Cure

By: Robin L. Smith, MD & Max Gomez, PhD

Narrated by: Randye Kaye

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Promising treatments now in more than 35,000 clinical trials could have dramatic impacts on cancer, autoimmune diseases, organ replacement, heart disease, and even aging itself. These treatments, which are saving the lives of patients in the trials, will soon be rolled to the medical community at large.



The key to these breakthroughs is the use of... Read more

How Can I Get Better?

By: Richard I. Horowitz, MD

Narrated by: Barry Abrams

Length: 16 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you sick, but can’t find any answers why? Do you have a seemingly unconnected collection of symptoms that leave doctors guessing? Or have you been diagnosed, but found that none of the treatments seems to make a difference? You may have Lyme disease and not even know it. Known as "the great imitator," Lyme disease and its associated... Read more

An Epidemic of Absence

By: Moises Velasquez-Manoff

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen

Length: 17 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

An Epidemic of Absence asks what will happen in developing countries, which, as they become more affluent, have already seen an uptick in allergic disease: Will India end up more allergic than Europe? Velasquez-Manoff also details a controversial underground movement that has coalesced around the treatment of immune-mediated disorders with... Read more

Beyond ADHD

By: Jeff Emmerson & Robert Yehling

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Beyond ADHD weaves Jeff Emmerson's personal story of his ADHD diagnosis, exploring along the way the latest medical, scientific, and societal explanations and tools for managing and living with the condition. Including interviews with a number of experts at the forefront of next-generation ADHD diagnostics and treatment, he questions the... Read more

Another Kind of Madness

By: Stephen P. Hinshaw

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Families are riddled with untold secrets. But Stephen Hinshaw never imagined that a profound secret was kept under lock and key for eighteen years within his family—that his father's mysterious absences, for months at a time, resulted from serious mental illness and involuntary hospitalizations. From the moment his father revealed the truth,... Read more

Unlocking Lyme

By: William Rawls, MD

Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Lyme disease is one of the most puzzling illnesses on the planet. Anyone who has suffered from its debilitating symptoms knows the frustrations of trying to find a cure.



Many sufferers drag themselves from one doctor or alternative practitioner to the next, getting lost in a maze of lab tests, prescription drugs, and treatments. Thousands of... Read more

The Chick and the Dead

By: Carla Valentine

Narrated by: Beverley A. Crick

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Carla Valentine works with the dead. After studying forensics, she assisted pathologists with post-mortems for years before becoming the curator of the world's most famous pathology museum. When it comes to death, she truly is an expert, and in this book she shares that expertise.



Using the most common post-mortem process as the backbone of the... Read more

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

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

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

Genetics in the Madhouse

By: Theodore M. Porter

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 14 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Almost from the beginning, they pointed to heredity as the most important of these causes. As doctors and state officials steadily lost faith in the capacity of asylum care to stem the... Read more

Brain Food

By: Lisa Mosconi, PhD

Narrated by: Norah Tocci

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. Lisa Mosconi, whose research spans an extraordinary range of specialties including brain science, the microbiome, and nutritional genomics, notes that the dietary needs of the brain are substantially different from those of the other organs, yet few of us have any idea what they might be. Her innovative approach to cognitive health... Read more

Things That Helped

By: Jessica Friedmann

Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Things That Helped is a memoir in essays, detailing the Australian writer Jessica Friedmann's recovery from postpartum depression. In each essay she focuses on a separate totemic object—from pho to red lips to the musician Anohni—to tell a story that is both deeply personal and culturally resonant. Drawing on critical theory, popular culture,... Read more

Tears of Salt

By: Pietro Bartolo & Lidia Tilotta

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 3 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

For twenty-five years, Dr. Pietro Bartolo has run the lone medical clinic on the Italian island of Lampedusa. In that time he has rescued, welcomed, and cared for many of the hundreds of thousands of desperate migrants from the Middle East and Africa who have washed up on the island's shores. In this inspiring account of his life and work,... Read more

Heart Solution for Women

By: Mark Menolascino

Narrated by: Will Damron

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Heart disease remains the number one killer of women, outpacing breast cancer, diabetes, and stroke, with one in four women receiving a diagnosis in her lifetime. And the problem is only getting worse.Dr. Mark Menolascino has been on the front lines of cardiac research for most of his life, running a highly successful clinic where he takes a... Read more

The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind

By: Barbara K. Lipska

Narrated by: Emma Powell

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In January 2015, Barbara Lipska—a leading expert on the neuroscience of mental illness—was diagnosed with melanoma that had spread to her brain. Within months, her frontal lobe, the seat of cognition, began shutting down. She descended into madness, exhibiting dementia—and schizophrenia—like symptoms that terrified her family and coworkers. But... Read more

The Incurable Romantic

By: Frank Tallis

Narrated by: Simon Shepherd

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A psychologist explores the intersection of love and madness through the riveting stories of the patients he has treated

In The Incurable Romantic, Frank Tallis recounts the extraordinary stories of patients who are, quite literally, madly in love: a woman becomes utterly convinced that her dentist is secretly infatuated with her and drives him... Read more

A Mind Unraveled

By: Kurt Eichenwald

Narrated by: Kurt Eichenwald, Ann Marie Lee, Kimberly Farr, ...

Length: 14 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The compelling story of an acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author’s ongoing struggle with epilepsy—how, through personal resilience and the support of loved ones, heovercame medical incompetence and institutional discrimination to achieve once unthinkable success.  

“REMARKABLE . . . inspirational in the true sense of the... Read more

Becoming Dr. Q

By: Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa & Mim Eichler Rivas

Narrated by: Henry Leyva

Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Today he is known as Dr. Q, an internationally renowned neurosurgeon and neuroscientist who leads cutting-edge research to cure brain cancer. But not too long ago, he was Freddy, a nineteen-year-old undocumented migrant worker toiling in the tomato fields of central California. In this gripping memoir, Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa tells his amazing... Read more