Medicine audiobooks

A Mind of Your Own

By: Kelly Brogan, M.D. & Kristin Loberg

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Depression is not a disease. It is a symptom.Recent years have seen a shocking increase in antidepressant use the world over, with 1 in 4 women starting their day with medication. These drugs have steadily become the panacea for everything from grief, irritability, panic attacks, to insomnia, PMS, and stress.  But the truth is, what women really... Read more

Slow Dancing with a Stranger

By: Meryl Comer

Narrated by: Meryl Comer

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist and leading Alzheimer’s advocate Meryl Comer’s Slow Dancing With a Stranger is a profoundly personal, unflinching account of her husband’s battle with Alzheimer’s disease that serves as a much-needed wake-up call to better understand and address a progressive and deadly affliction.When Meryl Comer’s... Read more

Bald is Better With Earrings

By: Andrea Hutton

Narrated by: Andrea Hutton

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

For the one in eight women who will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year, a warm, practical, relatable handbook that dispels the terror and takes you step-by-step through the process, from diagnosis to post-treatment.
When Andrea Hutton was diagnosed with breast cancer, she wanted to know everything. She read books voraciously, devoured... Read more

Patient H.M.

By: Luke Dittrich

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 14 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

“Oliver Sacks meets Stephen King”* in this propulsive, haunting journey into the life of the most studied human research subject of all time, the amnesic known as Patient H.M. For readers of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks comes a story that has much to teach us about our relentless pursuit of knowledge.

Winner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson... Read more

A Doctor in the House

By: Candy Carson

Narrated by: Candy Carson

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

 “The life of a neurosurgeon isn’t an easy one, and Ben has been required to go above and beyond the call of duty almost constantly. The life of a neu­rosurgeon’s wife isn’t much easier. But it’s all been worth it. Together, we’ve been through poverty, tragedy, wealth, and joy, and we’ve had each other’s backs. I love that guy!” —CANDY... Read more

Pandemic

By: Sonia Shah

Narrated by: Sonia Shah

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of The Fever, a wide-ranging inquiry into the origins of pandemics

Interweaving history, original reportage, and personal narrative, Pandemic explores the origin of epidemics, drawing parallels between the story of cholera--one of history's most disruptive and deadly pathogens--and the new pathogens that stalk humankind today,... Read more

Honey, Mud, Maggots, and Other Medical Marvels

By: Robert Root-Bernstein & Michele Root-Bernstein

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Written with wit and narrative force, Honey, Mud, Maggots and Other Medical Marvels is an enriching excursion into the world of folk medicine. The award-winning team of Robert and MichelE Root-Bernstein provide a fascinating glimpse into the evolution of medical traditions. In addition to the honey, mud, and maggots used in wound therapy, the... Read more

The Death of Cancer

By: Vincent T. DeVita, Jr., M.D. & Elizabeth DeVita...

Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Cancer touches everybody’s life in one way or another. But most of us know very little about how the disease works, why we treat it the way we do, and the personalities whose dedication got us where we are today. For fifty years, Dr. Vincent T. DeVita Jr. has been one of those key players: he has held just about every major position in the... Read more

Heroines of Mercy Street

By: Pamela D. Toler

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A look at the lives of the real nurses depicted in the PBS show Mercy Street.

Heroines of Mercy Street tells the true stories of the nurses at Mansion House, the Alexandria, Virginia, mansion turned war-time hospital and setting for the PBS drama Mercy Street. Among the Union soldiers, doctors, wounded men from both sides, freed slaves,... Read more

Juniper

By: Thomas French & Kelley French

Narrated by: Kelley French & Thomas French

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A micro-preemie fights for survival in this extraordinary and gorgeously told memoir by her parents, both award-winning journalists.

Juniper French was born four months early, at 23 weeks' gestation. She weighed 1 pound, 4 ounces, and her twiggy body was the length of a Barbie doll. Her head was smaller than a tennis ball, her skin was nearly... Read more

The Nurses

By: Alexandra Robbins

Narrated by: Alexandra Robbins

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Nursing is more than a career; it's a calling, and one of the most important fascinating, and dangerous professions in the world. As the frontline responders battling traumas, illnesses, and aggression from surprising sources, nurses are remarkable. Yet contemporary literature largely neglects them.

In The Nurses, New York Times bestselling... Read more

I Had to Survive

By: Roberto Canessa & Pablo Vierci

Narrated by: various narrators, Thom Rivera, Traber Burns, E...

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

On October 13, 1972, a Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying members of the “Old Christians” rugby team—and many of their friends and family members—crashed into the Andes Mountains. I Had to Survive offers a gripping and heartrending recollection of the harrowing brink-of-death experience that propelled survivor Roberto Canessa to become one of... Read more

First Bite

By: Bee Wilson

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

We do not come into the world with an innate sense of taste and nutrition; as omnivores, we have to learn how and what to eat, how sweet is too sweet, and what food will give us the most energy for the coming day. But how does this education happen? What are the origins of taste?In First Bite, the beloved food writer Bee Wilson draws on the... Read more

Life on Purpose

By: Victor J. Strecher

Narrated by: R.C. Bray

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A pioneer in the field of behavioral science delivers a groundbreaking work that shows how finding your purpose in life leads to better health and overall happiness.Your life is a boat. You need a rudder. But it doesn’t matter how much wind is in your sails if you’re not steering toward a harbor—an ultimate purpose in your life.While the... Read more

Menopause Confidential

By: Tara Allmen

Narrated by: Tara Allmen

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

An authoritative guide to understanding and navigating the hormonal changes and health issues women experience in midlife and beyond, from one of the leading medical experts in the field.The physical changes that occur after women turn forty are unavoidable—and can be unnerving. Menopause affects every aspect of life—from sex and sleep to mood... Read more

A Life Everlasting

By: Sarah Gray

Narrated by: Sarah Gray

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

A donor mother’s powerful memoir of grief and rebirth that is also a fascinating medical science whodunit, taking us inside the world of organ, eye, tissue, and blood donation and cutting-edge scientific research.When Sarah Gray received the devastating news that her unborn son Thomas was diagnosed with anencephaly, a terminal condition, she... Read more

Mindful Birthing

By: Nancy Bardacke

Narrated by: Nancy Bardacke & Donna Postel

Length: 15 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

With Mindful Birthing, Nancy Bardacke, nurse-midwife and mindfulness teacher, lays out her innovative program for pregnancy, childbirth, and beyond. Drawing on groundbreaking research in neuroscience, mindfulness meditation, and mind/body medicine, Bardacke offers practices that will help you find calm and ease during this life-changing time,... Read more

A Thousand Naked Strangers

By: Kevin Hazzard

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A former paramedic’s "thrilling, captivating" (Booklist), and mordantly funny account of a decade spent as a first responder in Atlanta saving lives and connecting with the drama and occasional beauty that lies inside catastrophe.

In the aftermath of 9/11 Kevin Hazzard felt that something was missing from his life—his days were too safe, too... Read more

The Laws of Medicine

By: Siddhartha Mukherjee

Narrated by: Santino Fontana

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Essential, required reading for doctors and patients alike: A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and one of the world’s premiere cancer researchers reveals an urgent philosophy on the little-known principles that govern medicine—and how understanding these principles can empower us all.

Over a decade ago, when Siddhartha Mukherjee was a young,... Read more

The Lucky Years

By: David B. Agus

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

“If you buy just one health book this year, then get The Lucky Years” (Howard Stern). In this groundbreaking guide, bestselling author David Agus shows how we can take control of our health like never before in the brave new world of medicine.

In his first bestseller, The End of Illness, David Agus revealed how to add vibrant years to your life... Read more

Bellevue

By: David Oshinsky

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 14 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine.

Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of mangled crime victims, vicious psychopaths, assorted derelicts,... Read more

The Human Superorganism

By: Rodney Dietert, PhD

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

"Eyeopening... Fascinating... may presage a paradigm shift in medicine.” 
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Teeming with information and big ideas... Outstanding.”
—Booklist (starred review)

The origin of asthma, autism, Alzheimer's, allergies, cancer, heart disease, obesity, and even some kinds of depression is now clear. Award-winning researcher... Read more

River of Time

By: Naomi Judd

Narrated by: Naomi Judd & Carolyn Cook

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Naomi Judd's life as a country music superstar has been nonstop success. But offstage, she has battled incredible adversity. Struggling through a childhood of harsh family secrets, the death of a young sibling, and absent emotional support, Naomi found herself reluctantly married and an expectant mother at age seventeen. Four years later, she... Read more

What Have We Done

By: David Wood

Narrated by: David Pittu

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

From Pulitzer Prize-¬?winning journalist David Wood, a battlefield view of moral injury, the signature wound of America's 21st century wars.

Most Americans are now familiar with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and its prevalence among troops. In this groundbreaking new book, David Wood examines the far more pervasive yet less understood... Read more