Medicine audiobooks

Neurofitness

By: Rahul Jandial, MD, PhD

Narrated by: Graham Winton

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

From the operating room where he performs some of the riskiest surgeries around, to the lab where he works on leading clinical trials, Dr. Rahul Jandial is at the forefront of advances in neuroscience. He has transformed the lives of his patients with his specially developed rehab for restoring brain function. In this eye-opening and informative... Read more

Make America Healthy Again

By: Nicole Saphier

Narrated by: Emily Durante

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

If Americans want to know why their health care is so costly and getting costlier, they need only look in the mirror.Americans are notoriously unhealthy—we eat too much, drink too much, and sit too much. When roughly 80 percent of cardiovascular disease and 40 percent of all cancer cases could be prevented by simple lifestyle changes, it is time... Read more

Collected Papers in Analytical Psychology

By: Carl Jung

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Carl Jung's Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology gathers in one volume some of his most important and influential shorter writings, and also some pieces that from our perspective, almost a century later, seem quaint or even idiosyncractic. The volume includes his famous study of a trance medium, a study on number-symbolism, his lectures on... 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

Theory of Pyschoanalysis

By: Carl Jung

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Although the theories presented in this book, a 1915 edition of the lectures Jung presented at Fordham University, are now thoroughly outdated, this book is still a fascinating glimpse of Jung's mind at a crucial time in his life. Just three years previously, he had struck out on his own, publishing his Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido, known... Read more

The Other Side of Sadness

By: George A. Bonanno

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In this thoroughly revised and updated classic, a renowned psychologist shows that mourning is far from predictable, and all of us share a surprising ability to be resilient
The conventional view of grieving--encapsulated by the famous five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance--is defined by a mourning process... Read more

Diagnosis

By: Lisa Sanders

Narrated by: Lisa Sanders

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of more than fifty hard-to-crack medical quandaries, featuring the best of The New York Times Magazine's popular Diagnosis column—now a Netflix original series

“Lisa Sanders is a paragon of the modern medical detective storyteller.”—Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal

As a Yale School of Medicine physician, the New York... Read more

Peak

By: Dr. Marc Bubbs

Narrated by: Dr. Marc Bubbs

Length: 13 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

An integrated and personalized approach to health, nutrition, training, recovery, and mindset There is a new revolution happening in sports as more and more athletes are basing their success on this game-changing combination: health, nutrition, training, recovery, and mindset. Unfortunately, the evidence-based techniques that the expert PhDs,... Read more

The Genius Life

By: Max Lugavere

Narrated by: Max Lugavere

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the New York Times bestselling Genius Foods is back with a lifestyle program for resetting your brain and body to its ""factory settings,"" to help fight fatigue, anxiety, and depression and to optimize cognitive health for a longer and healthier life.The human body was honed under unique conditions that no longer exist. The modern... Read more

Death is But a Dream

By: Christopher Kerr & Carine Mardorossian

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The first book to validate the meaningful dreams and visions that bring comfort as death nears.

Christopher Kerr is a hospice doctor. All of his patients die. Yet he has cared for thousands of patients who, in the face of death, speak of love and grace. Beyond the physical realities of dying are unseen processes that are remarkably... Read more

Lithium

By: Walter A. Brown

Narrated by: Shawn Compton

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From insulin comas and lobotomy to incarceration to exile, Walter Brown chronicles the troubling history of the diagnosis and (often ineffective) treatment of bipolar disorder through the centuries, before the publication of a groundbreaking research paper in 1949. Cade's "Lithium Salts in the Treatment of Psychotic Excitement" described, for... Read more

The Vagina Bible

By: Jen Gunter, MD

Narrated by: Jen Gunter

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Does eating sugar cause yeast infections?



Does pubic hair have a function?



Should you have a vulvovaginal care regimen?



Will your vagina shrivel up if you go without sex?



What's the truth about the HPV vaccine?



So many important questions, so much confusing, contradictory misinformation! In this age of click bait, pseudoscience, and... Read more

Well

By: Sandro Galea

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In Well, physician Sandro Galea examines what Americans miss when they fixate on healthcare: health.



Americans spend more money on health than people anywhere else in the world. And what do they get for it? Statistically, not much. Americans today live shorter, less healthy lives than citizens of other rich countries, and these trends show no... Read more

Seeing Red

By: Kirsten Karchmer

Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A world-renowned women’s health expert reveals a bold, practical, and data-driven handbook for menstrual periods that provides an easy-to-navigate roadmap for improving your reproductive health—and your everyday quality of life.

We’ve been lied to about periods. PMS, cramping, bloating, migraines, irritability, and anxiety may be extremely... Read more

Life Without Diabetes

By: Roy Taylor

Narrated by: Roy Taylor

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

THE US EDITION OF THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A momentous medical breakthrough —a scientifically proven program for managing and reversing Type 2 Diabetes at any stage of health.The fastest growing disease in the world, Type 2 diabetes has long been regarded as an incurable, lifelong condition that becomes progressively worse over time,... Read more

The Opposite of Certainty

By: Janine Urbaniak Reid

Narrated by: Ginny Welsch

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

This gripping memoir about what it means to face uncertainty details the plans Janine had for her family and her life that were gutted by her then 10-year-old son Mason’s diagnosis of a cancerous brain tumor, only to be followed by her own cancer diagnosis.All Janine Urbaniak Reid ever wanted was for everyone she loved to be okay so she might... Read more

Your Brain, Explained

By: Marc Dingman

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Sleep. Memory. Pleasure. Fear. Language. We experience these things every day, but how do our brains create them?



Your Brain, Explained is a personal tour around your gray matter. Neuroscientist Marc Dingman gives you a crash course in how your brain works and explains the latest research on the brain functions that affect you on a daily basis.

... Read more

Positive Disintegration

By: Kazimierz Dabrowski

Narrated by: Dave Young

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Kazimierz Dabrowski refers to his view of personality development as the theory of positive disintegration. He defines disintegration as disharmony within the individual and in his adaptation to the external environment. Anxiety, psychoneurosis, and psychosis are symptoms of disintegration. In general, disintegration refers to involution,... Read more

Reiki: an Ancient Healing Art Revisited

By: Marguerite Antonio

Narrated by: Joanna Henning

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you want to learn more about the marvelous, magical tools our ancestors used to help maintain and heal their bodies? Reiki (pronounced ray-key) is one such tool. The practice dates back to before the time of Christ and unleashes spiritual wisdom and life force energy. It may have begun in Tibet, India, or Egypt, but it has spread... Read more

Sitting Together

By: Susan M. Pollak, EdD, Thomas Pedulla & Ronald D...

Narrated by: Paul Brion

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

This practical guide helps therapists from virtually any specialty or theoretical orientation choose and adapt mindfulness practices most likely to be effective with particular patients, while avoiding those that are contraindicated. The authors provide a wide range of meditations that build the core skills of focused attention, mindfulness, and... Read more

How to Treat People

By: Molly Case

Narrated by: Henrietta Meire

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

As a teenager, Molly Case underwent an operation that saved her life. Nearly a decade later, she finds herself in the operating room again—this time as a trainee nurse. She learns to care for her patients, sharing not only their pain, but also life-affirming moments of hope. In doing so, she offers a compelling account of the processes that keep... Read more

I Used to Have Cancer

By: James Templeton

Narrated by: A.T. Chandler

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

By all standards of success, James Templeton seemed to have it all. He was a highly successful businessman, had a beautiful wife and daughter, and, only in his early thirties, had his whole life in front of him. To avoid the same fate as his father and grandfather, who both died of heart attacks at a young age, James became an avid runner—a... Read more

Mastering Diabetes

By: Cyrus Khambatta, PhD & Robby Barbaro, MPH

Narrated by: Cyrus Khambatta, PhD, Robby Barbaro, MPH & Neal...

Length: 14 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The instant New York Times bestseller.

A groundbreaking method to master all types of diabetes by reversing insulin resistance.

Current medical wisdom advises that anyone suffering from diabetes or prediabetes should eat a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet. But in this revolutionary book, Cyrus Khambatta, PhD, and Robby Barbaro, MPH, rely on a... Read more

Before My Time

By: Ami McKay

Narrated by: Ami McKay

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
 
WINNER OF THE ROBBIE ROBERTSON DARTMOUTH BOOK AWARD and the EVELYN RICHARDSON NON-FICTION AWARD
 
Previously published as Daughter of Family G

Weaving together touching scenes from her family history and her own life, Ami McKay's intimate and captivating memoir captures what it means to live fully even when you know your life... Read more