Medicine audiobooks

The Cure for Women

By: Lydia Reeder

Narrated by: Sara Sheckells

Length: 14 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

How Victorian male doctors used false science to argue that women were unfit for anything but motherhood—and the brilliant doctor who defied them. After Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to graduate from medical school, more women demanded a chance to study medicine. Barred entrance to universities like Harvard, women built their own... Read more

Life's Work

By: Dr. Willie Parker

Narrated by: Caz Harleaux

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In this “vivid and companionable memoir of a remarkable life” (The New Yorker), an outspoken, Christian reproductive justice advocate and abortion provider reveals his personal and professional journeys in an effort to seize the moral high ground on the question of choice and reproductive justice.

Dr. Willie Parker grew up in the Deep South,... Read more

Couple Found Slain

By: Mikita Brottman

Narrated by: Christina Delaine & Mikita Brottman

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes an introduction read by the author.

“Mikita Brottman is one of today’s finest practitioners of nonfiction.”
—The New York Times Book Review

Critically acclaimed author and psychoanalyst Mikita Brottman offers literary true crime writing at its best, taking us into the life of a murderer after his conviction—when most stories... Read more

Smile

By: Sarah Ruhl

Narrated by: Sarah Ruhl

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

* A People Best Book of the Year * Time and The Washington Post’s Most Anticipated List * Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence *

From the MacArthur genius, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and playwright, this “captivating, insightful memoir” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) is “a beautiful meditation on identity and how we... Read more

When Life Gives You Pears

By: Jeannie Gaffigan

Narrated by: Jeannie Gaffigan, Jim Gaffigan & Liz Noth

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The Big Sick meets Dad is Fat in this funny and heartfelt New York Times bestselling memoir from writer, director, wife, and mother, Jeannie Gaffigan, as she reflects on the life-changing impact of her battle with a pear-sized brain tumor.
In 2017, Jeannie's life came to a crashing halt when she was diagnosed with a life-threatening brain tumor.... Read more

Poisoned

By: Jeff Benedict

Narrated by: Jackie Sanders

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

NOW A NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY

From Jeff Benedict, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tiger Woods and The Dynasty, Poisoned chronicles the events surrounding the worst food-poisoning epidemic in US history: the deadly Jack in the Box E. coli infections in 1993.

On December 24, 1992, six-year-old Lauren Rudolph was hospitalized with... Read more

Allergic

By: Theresa MacPhail

Narrated by: Jaime Lamchick

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

An “important and deeply researched” (The Wall Street Journal) exploration of allergies, from their first medical description in 1819 to the cutting-edge science that is illuminating the changes in our environment and lifestyles that are making so many of us sick

Hay fever. Peanut allergies. Eczema. Either you have an allergy or you know someone... Read more

The Other Dr. Gilmer

By: Benjamin Gilmer

Narrated by: Benjamin Gilmer

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A “mesmerizing” (The New York Times Book Review) true story about a shocking crime and a mysterious illness that will forever change your notions of how we punish and how we heal—an expansion on one of the most popular This American Life episodes of all time

“A remarkable medical detective story–cum–memoir,... Read more

The Emergency

By: Thomas Fisher

Narrated by: Thomas Fisher

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The riveting, pulse-pounding story of a year in the life of an emergency room doctor trying to steer his patients and colleagues through a crushing pandemic and a violent summer, amidst a healthcare system that seems determined to leave them behind

“Gripping . . . eloquent . . . This book reminds us how permanently interesting our bodies are,... Read more

Fatal Conveniences

By: Darin Olien

Narrated by: Andrew Eiden

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of SuperLife and cohost with Zac Efron of the hit Netflix series Down to Earth, Darin Olien offers invaluable advice for addressing the health of our bodies and the health of the planet by identifying common products and behaviors that are harmful and providing alternatives that are non-toxic and... Read more

What the Eyes Don't See

By: Mona Hanna-Attisha

Narrated by: Mona Hanna-Attisha

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • The dramatic story of the Flint water crisis, by a relentless physician who stood up to power.

“Stirring . . . [a] blueprint for all those who believe . . . that ‘the world . . . should be full of people raising their voices.’”—The New York Times

“Revealing, with the gripping intrigue of a Grisham thriller.” —O: The... Read more

Everything I Have Is Yours

By: Eleanor Henderson

Narrated by: Karissa Vacker

Length: 12 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

"Vacker's insightful presentation introduces listeners to this debilitating disease and its effects on marriage and family." - AudioFile Magazine

From New York Times bestselling author Eleanor Henderson comes a turbulent love story meets harrowing medical mystery: the true story of the author’s twenty-year marriage defined by her husband’s... Read more

The Beauty in Breaking

By: Michele Harper

Narrated by: Nicole Lewis

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A New York Times Notable Book

“Riveting, heartbreaking, sometimes difficult, always inspiring.” —The New York Times Book Review

“An incredibly moving memoir about what it means to be a doctor.” —Ellen Pompeo

As seen/heard on Fresh Air, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC, Weekend Edition, and more

An... 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

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

Monkey Mind

By: Daniel Smith

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In the insightful narrative tradition of Oliver Sacks, Monkey Mind is an uplifting, smart, and very funny memoir of life with anxiety—America’s most common psychological complaint.We all think we know what being anxious feels like—it is the instinct that made us run from wolves in the prehistoric age and pushes us to perform in the modern... Read more

Rabid

By: Bill Wasik & Monica Murphy

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A maddened creature, frothing at the mouth, lunges at an innocent victim—and with a bite, transforms its prey into another raving monster. It's a scenario that underlies our darkest tales of supernatural horror, but its power derives from a very real virus, a deadly scourge known to mankind from our earliest days. In this fascinating... 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

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

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

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

The Citizen Patient

By: Nortin M. Hadler

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Conflicts of interest, misrepresentation of clinical trials, hospital price-fixing, and massive expenditures for procedures of dubious efficacy—these and other critical flaws leave little doubt that the current US health-care system is in need of an overhaul. In this essential guide, preeminent physician Nortin Hadler urges American health-care... Read more

How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who’s Sick

By: Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone knows someone who's sick or suffering. Yet when a friend or relative is under duress many of us feel uncertain about how to cope.Throughout her recent bout with breast cancer, Letty Cottin Pogrebin became fascinated by her friends' and family's diverse reactions to her and her illness: how awkwardly some of them behaved, how some... 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