Medicine audiobooks

Galileo's Middle Finger

By: Alice Dreger

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful defense of intellectual freedom told through the ordeals of contemporary scientists attacked for exploring controversial ideas, by a noted science historian and medical activist

An investigation of some of the most contentious debates of our time, Galileo’s Middle Finger describes Alice Dreger’s experiences on the front lines of... Read more

The Theft of Memory

By: Jonathan Kozol

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

National Book Award winner Jonathan Kozol is best known for his fifty years of work among our nation’s poorest and most vulnerable children. Now, in the most personal book of his career, he tells the story of his father’s life and work as a nationally noted specialist in disorders of the brain and his astonishing ability, at the onset of... Read more

Vitamania

By: Catherine Price

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Vitamania is the startling story of America's devotion to vitamins—and how it keeps us from good health.Health-conscious Americans seek out vitamins any way they can, whether in a morning glass of orange juice, a piece of vitamin-enriched bread, or a daily multivitamin. We believe that vitamins are always beneficial and that the more we can get,... Read more

Unchain Your Brain

By: Daniel G. Amen & David E. Smith

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you chained to your addiction to smoking? Drinking? Sugar? Drugs? Food? Prescription painkillers? Caffeine? Internet porn? Gambling? Sex?When you are chained by an addiction, it can ruin your life, devastate your family, destroy your relationships, derail your career, lower your grades, and make you physically ill.Do you want to break free... Read more

What Your Body Knows about God

By: Rob Moll

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you ever had an experience where you felt particularly aware of God? If God is real and we are created in God's image, then it makes sense that our minds and bodies would be designed with the perceptive ability to sense and experience God.Scientists are now discovering ways that our bodies are designed to connect with God. Research shows... Read more

Healthy Brain, Happy Life

By: Wendy Suzuki & Billie Fitzpatrick

Narrated by: Wendy Suzuki

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A neuroscientist transforms the way we think about our brain, our health, and our personal happiness in this clear, informative, and inspiring guide—a blend of personal memoir, science narrative, and immediately useful takeaways that bring the human brain into focus as never before, revealing the powerful connection between exercise, learning,... Read more

The Hormone Reset Diet

By: Sara Szal Gottfried

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The Harvard-educated physician and New York Times bestselling author of The Hormone Cure shows you how to grow new receptors for your seven metabolic hormones, making you lose weight and feel great fast!When it comes to weight loss, most people don’t think about hormones. But when you develop resistance to your seven major metabolic... Read more

Happy Gut

By: Vincent Pedre

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Following the success of the bestselling Clean Gut and Wheat Belly comes this essential guide to improving digestive health from an expert in functional medicine—who reveals why everything that ails us, from fatigue to weight gain to bloating and bad skin, can be traced back to the gut, and shares his cleansing plan to help us reclaim our... Read more

Your Health Destiny

By: Eva Selhub

Narrated by: Eva Selhub

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

An internist and clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School fuses Eastern practices with cutting edge Western medicine to help you connect body and mind to transform your health today and tomorrow.Over the course of her decades-long career, Dr. Eva Selhub has discovered a fundamental truth: health, happiness, and strength are often a direct... Read more

Healthy at Home

By: Tieraona Low Dog

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

At a time when taking charge of your own health care is all the more essential, respected doctor and Andrew Weil proteg├®e Tieraona Low Dog advises on the art and science of healing at home. In this follow-up to Life Is Your Best Medicine, get the how, when, and why of getting better and staying well with homemade remedies that the doctor... 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

This is Your Do-Over

By: Michael F. Roizen

Narrated by: Michael F. Roizen

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling coauthor of the YOU series, the ultimate guide to reversing damage, optimizing health, and living a life filled with energy and happiness. “If you want to have a better brain and body…This is your manual for transformation” (Daniel G. Amen, MD, New York Times bestselling author).

No matter what kind of lifestyle you lead, no... Read more

A Short Guide to a Long Life

By: David B. Agus

Narrated by: David B. Agus

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling book of simple rules everyone should follow in order to live a long, healthy life, featuring illustrations throughout, from the author of The End of Illness.

In his international bestseller, The End of Illness, Dr. David B. Agus shared what he has learned from his work as a pioneering cancer doctor, revealing the... 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

Heart

By: Dick Cheney & Jonathan Reiner

Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb, Edward Herrmann & Jonathan Reiner

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his longtime cardiologist, Dr. Jonathan Reiner, share the story of Cheney’s thirty-five-year battle with heart disease—providing insight into the incredible medical breakthroughs that have changed cardiac care over the last four decades.

For as long as he has served at the highest levels of business and... Read more

Knocking on Heaven's Door

By: Katy Butler

Narrated by: Katy Butler

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

“A thoroughly researched and compelling mix of personal narrative and hard-nosed reporting that captures just how flawed care at the end of life has become” (Abraham Verghese, The New York Times Book Review).

This bestselling memoir—hailed a “triumph” by The New York Times—ponders the “Good Death” and the forces within medicine that stand in its... Read more

Proof of Heaven

By: Eben Alexander

Narrated by: Eben Alexander

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestselling account of a neurosurgeon's own near-death experience—for readers of 7 Lessons from Heaven.

Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those scientists. A highly trained neurosurgeon, Alexander knew that NDEs feel real,... Read more

Dr. Mutter's Marvels

By: Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

Narrated by: Erik Singer

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A mesmerizing biography of the brilliant and eccentric medical innovator who revolutionized American surgery and founded the country’s most famous museum of medical oddities
 
Imagine undergoing an operation without anesthesia performed by a surgeon who refuses to sterilize his tools—or even wash his hands. This was the world of medicine when... Read more

The Malaria Project

By: Karen M. Masterson

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 16 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating and shocking historical exposé, The Malaria Project is the story of America's secret mission to combat malaria during World War II—a campaign modeled after a German project which tested experimental drugs on men gone mad from syphilis.

American war planners, foreseeing the tactical need for a malaria drug, recreated the German... Read more

The Brain's Way of Healing

By: Norman Doidge, M.D.

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 14 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times–bestselling author of The Brain That Changes Itself presents astounding advances in the treatment of brain injury and illness. Now a new afterword.

Winner of the 2015 Gold Nautilus Award in Science & Cosmology  

In The Brain That Changes Itself, Norman Doidge described the most important breakthrough in our understanding... Read more

The Man Who Wasn't There

By: Anil Ananthaswamy

Narrated by: René Ruiz

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

*Nominated for the 2016 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award*
*An NBC News Notable Science Book of 2015*
*Named one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2015*
*A Book of the Month for Brain HQ/Posit Science*
*Selected by Forbes as a Must Read Brain Book of 2015*
*On Life Changes Network’s list of the Top 10 Books That Could Change Your Life... Read more

The Good Gut

By: Justin Sonnenburg & Erica Sonnenburg

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking guide to the surprising source of good health
 
Genetics and lifestyle are thought to be the two most important determinants of good health. But that is not the whole story. We have a second genome, our gut bacteria, that sets the dial on our bodies. Unlike our DNA, we can influence the gut bacteria, or microbiota, to optimize... Read more

A Common Struggle

By: Patrick J. Kennedy & Stephen Fried

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In this New York Times bestseller Patrick J. Kennedy, the former congressman and youngest child of Senator Ted Kennedy, details his personal and political battle with mental illness and addiction, exploring mental health care's history in the country alongside his and every family's private struggles. 

On May 5, 2006, the New York Times ran two... Read more

My Stroke of Insight

By: Jill Bolte Taylor

Narrated by: Jill Bolte Taylor

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The astonishing New York Times bestseller that chronicles how a brain scientist's own stroke led to enlightenment.

On December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke in the left hemisphere of her brain. As she observed her mind deteriorate to the point that she could not... Read more