Medicine audiobooks

Lest We Forget

By: Kwan Kew Lai

Narrated by: Raechel Wong

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2014 after fighting through yards of bureaucratic red tape, leaving her family, and putting her own health at risk in order to help suffering strangers, Kwan Kew Lai finally arrived in Africa to volunteer as an infectious disease specialist in the heart of the largest Ebola outbreak in history. What she found was not only blistering heat,... Read more

Mama Might Be Better Off Dead

By: Laurie Kaye Abraham

Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts

Length: 14 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

North Lawndale, a neighborhood that lies in the shadows of Chicago's Loop, is surrounded by some of the city's finest medical facilities, Yet, it is one of the sickest, most medically underserved communities in the country.



Mama Might Be Better Off Dead immerses listeners in the lives of four generations of a poor, African-American family in the... Read more

Feminist, Queer, Crip

By: Alison Kafer

Narrated by: Sarah Beth Pfeifer

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In Feminist, Queer, Crip, Alison Kafer imagines a different future for disability and disabled bodies. Challenging the ways in which ideas about the future and time have been deployed in the service of compulsory able-bodiedness and able-mindedness, Kafer rejects the idea of disability as a pre-determined limit. She juxtaposes theories,... Read more

Strange Medicine

By: Nathan Belofsky

Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Now published in five languages, Strange Medicine casts a gimlet eye on the practice of medicine through the ages that highlights the most dubious ideas, bizarre treatments, and biggest blunders. From bad science and oafish behavior to stomach-turning procedures that hurt more than helped, Strange Medicine presents strange but true facts and an... Read more

The Sherlock Effect

By: Thomas W. Young

Narrated by: Thomas W. Young

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Forensic science is in crisis and at a cross-roads. Movies and television dramas depict forensic heroes with high-tech tools and dazzling intellects who—inside an hour, notwithstanding commercials—piece together past-event puzzles from crime scenes and autopsies. Likewise, Sherlock Holmes—the iconic fictional detective, and the invention of... Read more

The Spanish Flu Epidemic and Its Influence on History

By: Jaime Breitnauer

Narrated by: Gabrielle Baker

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Where did Spanish flu come from, and what can the possible sites of origin tell us today? This book looks at how Spanish flu changed the focus of scientific thought from eugenics to the creation of public health, and how it unfolded across each continent.



In Budapest, a lone woman dies quietly on a bench in the late afternoon sun, while in South... Read more

Mystery School in Hyperspace

By: Graham St John

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 17 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Since the mid-1950s, the psychoactive compound DMT has attracted the attention of experimentalists, prohibitionists, scientists, artists, alchemists, and hyperspace emissaries. Mystery School in Hyperspace is the first book to delve into the history of this substance, the discovery of its properties, and the impact it has had on poets, artists,... Read more

The Genome Defense

By: Jorge L. Contreras

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith

Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In this riveting, behind-the-scenes courtroom drama, a brilliant legal team battles corporate greed and government overreach for our fundamental right to control our genes.

When attorney Chris Hansen learned that the U.S. government was issuing patents for human genes to biotech companies, his first thought was, How can a corporation own what... Read more

Patient Zero

By: Lydia Kang & Nate Pedersen

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 14 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

From the masters of storytelling-meets-science and co-authors of Quackery, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks—how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them before they destroy us.

Written in the authors’ lively and accessible style, chapters... Read more

Introducción a los usos médicos del Cannabis

By: Pharmacology University

Narrated by: Maria Gallardo

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

En 1964 que por primera vez un grupo de científicos en Israel, lograron aislar y sintetizar una de las moléculas más polémicas provenientes de la planta: el THC. La caracterización de esta molécula con propiedades terapéuticas y efectos altamente psicoactivos marcó un hito en la historia de la industria del cannabis e inspiró a muchos a seguir... Read more

Vagina Problems

By: Lara Parker

Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

With unflinching honesty, Lara Parker, the Deputy Director for BuzzFeed, shares her day-to-day challenges of living, working, and loving with chronic pain caused by endometriosis in this raw, darkly humorous, and hopeful memoir.I wasn’t ready to be completely honest about my vagina yet, and the world wasn’t ready for that either. But I was... Read more

Misunderstanding Health

By: Rohit Khanna

Narrated by: Neil Shah

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

With technological advances and information sharing so prevalent, health care should be more transparent and easier to access than ever before. So why does it seem like everything about it—from pricing, drug development, and the emergence of new diseases to the intricacies of biologic and precision medicine therapies—is becoming more complex,... Read more

Twelve Cases

By: Daniel Mierlak, MD, PhD

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you curious about the shadowy parts of the human psyche? Join Dr. Daniel Mierlak, a psychiatrist for twenty-five years, on a journey to the stranger corners of human experience. Here you'll meet: Tony, chauffeur to the fabulously rich, who overcomes crippling anxiety only to find himself descend into a homicidal rage following a botched... Read more

The Billion Dollar Molecule

By: Barry Werth

Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby

Length: 18 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Join journalist Barry Werth as he pulls back the curtain on Vertex, a start-up pharmaceutical company, and witness firsthand the intense drama being played out in the pioneering and hugely profitable field of drug research.



Founded by Joshua Boger, a dynamic Harvard- and Merck-trained scientific whiz kid, Vertex is dedicated to designing—atom by... Read more

Blood Brother

By: Susan Keller

Narrated by: Lexi Mae

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

As a happily married, fifty-five-year-old professional woman, Susan had it all—or thought she did—until the day of her shocking diagnosis with stage IV Mantle Cell Lymphoma, a rare and aggressive disease. Ninety-eight percent of her bone marrow was cancerous, and a heart attack or brain aneurism was imminent. Within minutes of being admitted to... Read more

All That Moves Us

By: Jay Wellons

Narrated by: Jay Wellons

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“The surgical interventions in these pages are dizzying, but the fact that Jay Wellons can write as well as he can operate provides a whole other level of amazement.”—Ann Patchett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth

“A powerful and moving account of the intense joys and sorrows of being a pediatric neurosurgeon.”—Henry Marsh,... Read more

Top 10 Vaccine Objections

By: Alex Ramirez

Narrated by: Andy Stevenson

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

If you have ever thought any of the following, “Vaccines are not for me, I'm young and healthy and don't need them”; “I rather develop natural immunity to infections, without vaccination”; “Immunisation is a personal choice, it only affects me, so I'll take the risk” then this book is for you. You would also enjoy this book if you have ever... Read more

The 30-Minute Immune System Diet Plan

By: Connor Thompson

Narrated by: Chris Lynch

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Boost your Immunity, Reduce Inflammation and Prevent Disease with the 30-Minute Immune System Diet PlanYour immune system is the most important function your body has. It makes sure you have the ability to fight deadly infections and diseases, by removing excess fluids, absorbing fatty acids, and forming white blood cells. As such you have to... Read more

The 30-minute Brain Diet Protocol

By: Connor Thompson

Narrated by: Chris Lynch

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Boost your Brain Health and Memory with the 30-Minute Brain Diet ProtocolAre you worried about your brain deteriorating as you age?Do you already find that your memory isn’t as good as it once was?Did you know that your diet can have a real impact on brain health?Illnesses like Alzheimer’s and dementia are becoming more prevalent and part of the... Read more

My B****** Heart

By: Tony Richens-Smith

Narrated by: Tony Richens-Smith

Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Having a heart attack is not great at any time …Having one during the Covid Pandemic is particularly stupid!This is exactly what happened to the author in February 2021. What follows is a deeply personal journey - a no holds barred account of the highs, lows and downright ridiculous situations that occurred.It is often humorous but full of... Read more

Dangerous Medicine

By: Sydney A. Halpern

Narrated by: Randye Kaye

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The untold history of America's mid-twentieth-century program of hepatitis infection research, its scientists' aspirations, and the damage the project caused human subjects



From 1942 through 1972, American biomedical researchers deliberately infected people with hepatitis. Government-sponsored researchers were attempting to discover the basic... Read more

The 30-Minute Autoimmune Diet Cookbook

By: Connor Thompson

Narrated by: Chris Lynch

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Reverse Autoimmune Disease and Treat Chronic Illness with the 30-Minute Autoimmune Diet ProtocolAre you a sufferer of autoimmune disease?Are the conditions ruining your life?Are you tired of taking drugs that barely seem to touch the symptoms?Autoimmune disease is a condition where the body's immune system attacks its own healthy cells. It can... Read more

Moonshot

By: Dr. Albert Bourla

Narrated by: Stephen Graybill

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

2022 Genesis Prize LaureateThe exclusive, first-hand, behind-the-scenes story of how Pfizer raced to create the first Covid-19 vaccine, told by Pfizer’s Chairman and CEO Dr. Albert Bourla.A riveting, fast-paced, inside look at one of the most incredible private sector achievements in history, Moonshot recounts the intensive nine months in 2020... Read more

Beyond Stuttering

By: Dave McGuire

Narrated by: Dave McGuire

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Beyond Stuttering is a book describing a method that helps people who stutter to get control and overcome their stutter or stammer.It is the same method that was featured in the BATFA Nominated Documentary "School For Stammerers".It was also the same method used in "Stutter School" another documentary that is a finalist in the 2021 "New York... Read more