Medicine audiobooks

Divided Minds

By: Pamela Spiro Wagner & Carolyn S. Spiro, MD

Narrated by: Amanda Carlin & Kimberly Farr

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Growing up in the fifties, Carolyn Spiro was always in the shadow of her more intellectually dominant and social outgoing twin, Pamela. But as the twins approached adolescence, Pamela began to succumb to schizophrenia, hearing disembodied voices and eventually suffering many breakdowns and hospitalizations.



Divided Minds is a dual memoir of... Read more

Good Reasons for Bad Feelings

By: Randolph M. Nesse, MD

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A founder of the field of evolutionary medicine uses his decades of experience as a psychiatrist to provide a much-needed new framework for making sense of mental illness.

With his classic book Why We Get Sick, Dr. Randolph Nesse helped to establish the field of evolutionary medicine. Now he returns with a book that transforms our understanding... Read more

The Disordered Mind

By: Eric R. Kandel

Narrated by: David Stifel

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

"David Stifel provides a confident professorial tone in his narration of [Eric] Kandel's fascinating audiobook. Listeners searching for a fundamental review of neurobiology will find it satisfyingly comprehensive." — AudioFile Magazine

Eric R. Kandel, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his foundational research into... Read more

Meditation Is Not What You Think

By: Jon Kabat-Zinn

Narrated by: Jon Kabat-Zinn

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Welcome to a master class in mindfulness.

Jon Kabat-Zinn is regarded as "one of the finest teachers of mindfulness you'll ever encounter" (Jack Kornfield). He has been teaching the tangible benefits of meditation in the mainstream for decades. Today, millions of people around the world have taken up a formal mindfulness meditation practice as... Read more

Falling Awake

By: Jon Kabat-Zinn

Narrated by: Jon Kabat-Zinn

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Think you have no time for mindfulness? Think again.

"Thoughtful and provocative.... The relevance of this work is unquestionable, as it leaves us inspired and optimistic that true healing really is possible" (Sharon Salzberg). For four decades, Jon Kabat-Zinn has been teaching the tangible benefits of meditation in the mainstream. Today... Read more

Rush

By: Stephen Fried

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 22 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The monumental life of Benjamin Rush, medical pioneer and one of our most provocative and unsung Founding Fathers
 
FINALIST FOR THE GEORGE WASHINGTON BOOK PRIZE • AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
 
By the time he was thirty, Dr. Benjamin Rush had signed the Declaration of Independence, edited Common Sense, toured Europe as... Read more

Dr. Patrick Walsh's Guide to Surviving Prostate Cancer

By: Patrick C. Walsh, MD & Janet Farrar Worthington

Narrated by: Rick Zieff

Length: 19 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

This guide covers every aspect of prostate cancer, from potential causes including diet to tests for diagnosis, curative treatment, and innovative means of controlling advanced stages of cancer. Read more

Under the Knife

By: Arnold van de Laar

Narrated by: Rich Keeble

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Surgeon Arnold van de Laar uses his own experience and expertise to tell this engrossing history of surgery through 28 famous operations—from Louis XIV and Einstein to JFK and Houdini.

From the story of the desperate man from seventeenth-century Amsterdam who grimly cut a stone out of his own bladder to Bob Marley's deadly toe, Under the Knife... Read more

The Longevity Diet

By: Valter Longo

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The internationally renowned, clinically tested, revolutionary diet program to lose weight, fight disease, and live a longer, healthier life.Can what you eat determine how long, and how well, you live? The clinically proven answer is yes, and The Longevity Diet is easier to follow than you’d think. The culmination of twenty-five years of... Read more

Pain Killer

By: Barry Meier

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times reporter who first exposed the roots of the opioid epidemic and the secretive world of the Sackler family behind Purdue Pharma, Pain Killer is the celebrated landmark story of corporate greed and government negligence that inspired an upcoming Netflix series.  

“This is the book that started it all.... Read more

The Kelloggs

By: Howard Markel

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 16 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

John Harvey Kellogg was one of America's most beloved physicians; a bestselling author, lecturer, and health-magazine publisher; founder of the Battle Creek Sanitarium; and patron saint of the pursuit of wellness. His youngest brother, Will, was the founder of the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company, which revolutionized the mass production... Read more

The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth

By: Thomas Morris

Narrated by: Thomas Morris & Ruper Farley

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"Delightfully horrifying."--Popular Science
One of Mental Floss's Best Books of 2018
One of Science Friday's Best Science Books of 2018

This wryly humorous collection of stories about bizarre medical treatments and cases offers a unique portrait of a bygone era in all its jaw-dropping weirdness.

A puzzling series of dental explosions beginning in... Read more

Synesthesia

By: Richard E. Cytowic, MD

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

One in twenty-three people carry the genes for the synesthesia. Not a disorder but a neurological trait—like perfect pitch—synesthesia creates vividly felt cross-sensory couplings. A synesthete might hear a voice and at the same time see it as a color or shape, taste its distinctive flavor, or feel it as a physical touch.



Cytowic explains that... Read more

The Healing Power of Mindfulness

By: Jon Kabat-Zinn

Narrated by: Jon Kabat-Zinn

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover how mindfulness can help you with healing.

More than twenty years ago, Jon Kabat-Zinn showed us the value of cultivating greater awareness in everyday life with his now-classic introduction to mindfulness, Wherever You Go, There You Are. Now, in TheHealing Power of Mindfulness, he shares a cornucopia of specificexamples as to how the... Read more

American Overdose

By: Chris McGreal

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A comprehensive portrait of a uniquely American epidemic -- devastating in its findings and damning in its conclusions

The opioid epidemic has been described as "one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine." But calling it a mistake is a generous rewriting of the history of greed, corruption, and indifference that pushed the US into... Read more

The Breakthrough

By: Charles Graeber

Narrated by: Will Collyer & Charles Graeber

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Follow along as this New York Times bestselling author details the astonishing scientific discovery of the code to unleashing the human immune system to fight in this "captivating and heartbreaking" book (The Wall Street Journal).

For decades, scientists have puzzled over one of medicine's most confounding mysteries: Why doesn't our immune system... Read more

Superbugs

By: William Hall, Anthony McDonnell & Jim O'Neill

Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Antibiotics are powerful drugs that can prevent and treat infections, but they are becoming less effective as a result of drug resistance. Resistance develops because the bacteria that antibiotics target can evolve ways to defend themselves against these drugs. When antibiotics fail, there is very little else to prevent an infection from... Read more

Dr. Benjamin Rush

By: Harlow Giles Unger

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping, often startling biography of the Founding Father of an America that other Founding Fathers forgot--an America of women, African Americans, Jews, Roman Catholics, Quakers, indentured workers, the poor, the mentally ill, and war veterans

Ninety percent of Americans could not vote and did not enjoy rights to life, liberty, or the... Read more

How to Make Disease Disappear

By: Rangan Chatterjee

Narrated by: Matthew Waterson

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A much-needed program to prevent and reverse disease, and discover a path to sustainable, long-term health from an acclaimed international doctor and star of the BBC program Doctor in the House.How to Make Disease Disappear is Dr. Rangan Chatterjee’s revolutionary, yet simple guide to better health—a much-needed, accessible plan that will help... Read more

Science in High Resolution 4 of 6 The Humble Aspirin (lecture)

By: Classics Reborn Audio Publishing

Narrated by: Nina Salzar & Others

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Expand your horizons with this lecture on science. Experience acedemic lectures inside the form of an audiobook. Read more

Life on the Ground Floor

By: Dr. James Maskalyk

Narrated by: Dr. James Maskalyk

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

*Canada Reads 2019 Longlist
*Winner of the 2017 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction

Do no harm is our most important rule, but we break it all the time trying to do good.
 
In this deeply personal book, winner of the 2017 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, humanitarian doctor and activist James Maskalyk reflects upon... Read more

Sick

By: Porochista Khakpour

Narrated by: Yetta Gottesman

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

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Bitch’s 30 Most Anticipated... Read more

Enviromedics

By: Jay Lemery, MD & Paul Auerbach, MD

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Many of us have concerns about the effects of climate change on Earth, but we often overlook the essential issue of human health. This book addresses that oversight and enlightens listeners about the most important aspect of one of the greatest challenges of our time.



The global environment is under massive stress from centuries of human... Read more

The Social Transformation of American Medicine

By: Paul Starr

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 24 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Considered the definitive history of the American healthcare system, The Social Transformation of American Medicine examines how the roles of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs have evolved over the last two and a half centuries. How did the financially insecure medical profession of the nineteenth century become a most... Read more