Medicine bestsellers
The top 50 Medicine audiobooks on Libro.fm based on sales from our 3,000+ partner bookstore locations.
All bestsellers Bestsellers by genreThe Body Keeps the Score
Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
By: Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
Length: 16 hours 15 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“A beautiful dissection of trauma and its effects on the brain. One of the world’s foremost experts on trauma uses recent studies to show how trauma reshapes parts of us. The author frames trauma in a whole new way and makes you really consider the true definition of it. This book outlines how the traumas people carry can impact their capacity to... Read more
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Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
By: Gabor Maté, MD & Daniel Maté
Narrated by: Daniel Maté
Length: 18 hours 12 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“A must read for fans of The Body Keeps the Scoreand anyone interested in the science and literature of trauma (should be us all!), The Myth of Normal is a moving, groundbreaking, and holistic exploration of just how sick 'normal' is, the connection between the mind, personality, experiences, culture and the body, and ways to move forward and... Read more
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Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts
By: Mary Claire Haver, MD
Narrated by: Mary Claire Haver, MD
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes
Filling a gaping hole in menopause care, everything a woman needs to know to thrive during her hormonal transition and beyond, as well as the tools to help her take charge of her health at this pivotal life stage—by the bestselling author of The Galveston Diet.
Menopause is inevitable, but suffering through it is not! This is the empowering... Read more
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Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
By: Oprah Winfrey & Bruce D. Perry
Narrated by: Bruce D. Perry & Oprah Winfrey
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
"[Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry] are both capable, likable narrators who are sincerely engaged with their subject matter...The performances of these two humanitarians make this a must-hear for anyone recovering from their traumatic past." —AudioFile
This program is read by the authors.
Our earliest experiences shape our lives far down the... Read more
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A Second Chance at Life: A Memoir
By: Delia Ephron
Narrated by: Delia Ephron
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“Left on Tenth is prime Delia — honest, raw, generous — be it her husband’s death, a call with Verizon, or the long and painful journey through leukemia. She’s endured so much, but shares with remarkable humor and an overflowing heart. Read more
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What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
By: Michael Pollan
Narrated by: Michael Pollan
Length: 13 hours 34 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“Pollan brings his humor, lyricism, and love for deep research to the admittedly taboo field of psychedelics. This book is an exhaustive exploration of these mysterious substances, in which he balances skepticism of the culture that surrounds them with optimism for their potential therapeutic use. Read more
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A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
By: Suleika Jaouad
Narrated by: Suleika Jaouad
Length: 13 hours 2 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“ A stirring memoir about a young woman moving between the realms of the sick and the well, and the nonlinear nature of healing. Jaouad writes, 'If we are brave enough to tell our own story, we realize we're not alone, again and again.' And WOW does she accomplish that for her readers. Read more
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Medicine and What Matters in the End
By: Atul Gawande
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes
#1 New York Times Bestseller
In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending
Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable... Read more
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One Doctor's Search for Humanity in Medicine
By: Jessi Gold
Narrated by: Keylor Leigh
Length: 7 hours 44 minutes
USA TODAY BESTSELLER
A poignant and thought-provoking memoir following one psychiatrist and four of her patients as they deal with the unspoken mental and physical costs of caring for others—perfect for fans of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and The In-Between.
For Dr. Jessi Gold, everything was absolutely fine—until it suddenly wasn’t. As an... Read more
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Inside the Mind of an American Family
By: Robert Kolker
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
Length: 13 hours 8 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“Schizophrenia is among the most ruthless of diseases, suddenly erupting in a life, often in adolescence, and turning it inside out in ways few treatments have been able to solve. That's what happened to six of the twelve children in the Galvin family in Colorado in the '60s and '70s, creating a house of turmoil for the stricken and their family... Read more
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The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist
By: Jennifer Wright
Narrated by: Mara Wilson
Length: 14 hours 1 minute
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“First, Mara Wilson's narration is A++. Second, WOW. Restell was a fascinating anti-hero and the snapshot of the medical industry and the politics of reproductive rights at the time was well-researched and vivid. Loved it and hated the timeliness. Read more
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By: Oliver Sacks
Narrated by: Dan Woren & Oliver Sacks
Length: 9 hours 48 minutes
Hallucinations don’t belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication, illness, or injury. Here Dr. Sacks weaves together stories of his patients and of his own mind-altering experiences to illuminate what hallucinations tell us about the organization and structure of our brains, how they have... Read more
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A Guide for Occupants
By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Bill Bryson
Length: 14 hours 4 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“At home while peeling wallpaper or making diner—or just closing my eyes for a while—a non-fiction audio book is a perfect companion, especially if it’s teaching me something as well as being entertaining. The Body: A Guide For Occupants by Bill Bryson, narrated by Bill Bryson, is exactly that kind of book. Bryson’s voice is genial, sometimes... Read more
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The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
By: Ed Yong
Narrated by: Charlie Anson
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“Ed Yong writes so enthusiastically about the expansive microbial world and our human understanding of it, past and present, that these science and research packed pages are a joy to read. More remarkable is Yong’s insistence on the moral of the story: it is the balanced mutual self-interest of community, not dog eat dog competition, that is the... Read more
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The Cost of Hidden Stress
By: Gabor Maté, MD
Narrated by: Daniel Maté
Length: 11 hours 48 minutes
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
From renowned mental health expert and speaker Dr. Gabor Maté, this acclaimed, bestselling guide provides insight into the mind-body link between illness and health, and the critical role that stress and our emotional makeup play in an array of common diseases.
In this accessible and groundbreaking book—filled with the... Read more
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Own Your Health With Facts and Feminism
By: Dr. Jen Gunter
Narrated by: Jen Gunter
Length: 13 hours 4 minutes
The only thing predictable about menopause is its unpredictability. Factor in widespread misinformation, a lack of research, and the culture of shame around women's bodies, and it's no wonder women are unsure what to expect during the menopause transition and beyond.
Menopause is not a disease—it's a planned change, like puberty. And just like... Read more
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An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others
By: Laura van Dernoot Lipsky & Connie Burk
Narrated by: Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
A longtime trauma worker, Laura van Dernoot Lipsky offers a deep and empathetic survey of the often-unrecognized toll taken on those working to make the world a better place. We may feel tired, cynical, or numb or like we can never do enough. These, and other symptoms, affect us individually and collectively, sapping the energy and effectiveness... Read more
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How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
By: Jonathan M. Metzl
Narrated by: Jamie Renell
Length: 9 hours 42 minutes
A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences -- even for the white voters they promise to help
Named one of the most anticipated books of 2019 by Esquire and the Boston Globe
In the era of Donald Trump, many lower- and middle-class white Americans are drawn to politicians who pledge to make their lives great again.... Read more
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A Renowned Forensic Scientist on Death, Mortality, and Solving Crimes
By: Sue Black
Narrated by: Angela Dawe
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes
Book of the Year, 2018 Saltire Literary AwardsFor fans of Caitlin Doughty, Mary Roach, and CSI shows, a renowned forensic scientist on death and mortality.Dame Sue Black is an internationally renowned forensic anthropologist and human anatomist. She has lived her life eye to eye with the Grim Reaper, and she writes vividly about it in this book,... Read more
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Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
By: John Carreyrou
Narrated by: Will Damron
Length: 11 hours 36 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“Theranos was a startup that set itself apart from the bevy of others in Silicon Valley. Its cause was noble, manufacturing revolutionary medical technology that could run a menu of blood tests on only a finger stick's worth of blood, eliminating the need for large painful needles. There was only one problem: the technology didn't exist.... Read more
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The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives (Pulitzer Prize Finalist)
By: Linda Villarosa
Narrated by: Karen Chilton
Length: 10 hours 4 minutes
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • "A stunning exposé of why Black people in our society 'live sicker and die quicker'—an eye-opening game changer."—Oprah Daily
From an award-winning writer at the New York Times Magazine and a contributor to the 1619 Project comes a landmark book that tells the full story of racial health disparities in America, revealing... Read more
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A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
By: Lydia Kang & Nate Pedersen
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes
What won't we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth?
Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine—yes, that strychnine, the one used in rat poison—was dosed like Viagra.
Looking back with fascination,... Read more
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How to Get Things Right
By: Atul Gawande
Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes
The New York Times bestselling author of Being Mortal and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist
We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face. Longer training, ever more advanced technologies—neither seems to prevent grievous... Read more
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Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
By: Mary Roach
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes
"America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour. The alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: the questions explored in Gulp are as taboo, in their way, as the cadavers in Stiff and every bit as surreal as the universe of zero gravity explored in Packing for Mars. Why is crunchy food... Read more
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Healing the Body, Healing the Pain
By: John E. Sarno
Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes
Learn how to relieve chronic pain for good with this life-changing New York Times bestselling book.
Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional. Musculoskeletal pain disorders have reached epidemic proportions in the United States, with most doctors failing to recognize their underlying cause, leaving patients desperate–and still in agonizing... Read more
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How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood
By: Chelsea Conaboy
Narrated by: Chelsea Conaboy
Length: 12 hours 31 minutes
This program is read by the author.
A groundbreaking exploration of the parental brain that untangles insidious myths from complicated realities, Mother Brain explodes the concept of “maternal instinct” and tells a new story about what it means to become a parent.
Before journalist Chelsea Conaboy gave birth, she anticipated the joy of holding her... Read more
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How to Pivot Toward What Matters
By: Steven C. Hayes, PhD
Narrated by: Mark Deakins & Steven C. Hayes, PhD
Length: 14 hours 19 minutes
"In all my years studying personal growth, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is one of the most useful tools I've ever come across, and in this book, Dr. Hayes describes it with more depth and clarity than ever before."-Mark Manson, #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
Life is not a problem to be solved.... Read more
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Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life
Genius Living: Book #1
By: Max Lugavere & Paul Grewal
Narrated by: Max Lugavere
Length: 9 hours 50 minutes
Discover the critical link between your brain and the food you eat, change the way you think about how your brain ages, and achieve optimal brain performance with this powerful new guide from media personality and leading voice in health Max Lugavere.After his mother was diagnosed with a mysterious form of dementia, Max Lugavere put his... Read more
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The Untold Story of Assisted Dying in America
By: Dr. Anita Hannig
Narrated by: Linda Jones
Length: 7 hours 32 minutes
In this groundbreaking book, Anita Hannig brings us into the lives of ordinary Americans who go to extraordinary lengths to set the terms of their own death. Faced with a terminal diagnosis and unbearable suffering, they decide to seek medical assistance in dying—a legal option now available to one in five Americans.
Drawing on five years of... Read more
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Living Well in Perimenopause and Menopause
By: Dr. Jessica Shepherd MD
Narrated by: Dr. Jessica Shepherd MD
Length: 5 hours 56 minutes
Evidence based. Lifestyle oriented. The practical guide you need for the life you want.
Finally, here is a fresh plan for a new generation entering perimenopause and menopause. With clinical insights, actionable tips, and holistic guidance, Dr. Jessica Shepherd, a board-certified OB/GYN and women’s health advocate, redefines how to sustain the... Read more
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Notes from a Medical Life
By: Suzanne Koven
Narrated by: Suzanne Koven
Length: 8 hours 49 minutes
In 2017, Dr. Suzanne Koven published an essay describing the challenges faced by female physicians, including her own personal struggle with "imposter syndrome"—a long-held secret belief that she was not smart enough or good enough to be a "real" doctor. Accessed by thousands of readers around the world, Koven's "Letter to a Young Female... Read more
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'An absolutely brilliant book. I really recommend it, I don't often say that' Jeremy Vine, BBC Radio 2
By: Dr Richard Shepherd
Narrated by: Dr Richard Shepherd
Length: 11 hours 45 minutes
Meet the forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd, in the true crime book of the year - brought to you by Penguin.
'The dead do not hide the truth and they never lie. Through me the dead can speak . . .'
He solves the mysteries of unexplained or sudden death.
He has performed over 23,000 autopsies, including investigating some of the most... Read more
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The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims
By: Jennifer Vanderbes
Narrated by: Jennifer Vanderbes
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes
“A shocking saga of pharmaceutical malpractice . . . Wonder Drug is both a first-rate medical thriller and the searing account of a forgotten American tragedy.”—Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain
A “fascinating and compassionate” (People) account of the most notorious drug of the twentieth century and the never-before-told story of... Read more
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A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
By: Anthony Fauci, M.D.
Narrated by: Anthony Fauci, M.D.
Length: 19 hours 12 minutes
#1 New York Times Bestseller
The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and whose six-decade career in high-level public service put him in the room with seven presidents
“An eventful autobiography [and] a classic American story…Gripping.”—The Washington Post
“One of the most consequential and most... Read more
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Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
By: Lisa Sanders
Narrated by: Lisa Sanders
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes
A riveting exploration of the most difficult and important part of what doctors do, by Yale School of Medicine physician Dr. Lisa Sanders, author of the monthly New York Times Magazine column "Diagnosis," the inspiration for the hit Fox TV series House, M.D.
"The experience of being ill can be like waking up in a foreign country. Life, as... Read more
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By: Phyllis Chesler
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 14 hours 18 minutes
Feminist icon Phyllis Chesler's pioneering work, Women and Madness, remains startlingly relevant today, nearly 50 years since its first publication in 1972. With over 2.5 million copies sold, this seminal book is unanimously regarded as the definitive work on the subject of women's psychology. Now back in print this completely revised and... Read more
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A Nurse's Story
By: Christie Watson
Narrated by: Christie Watson
Length: 8 hours 58 minutes
#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A moving, lyrical, beautifully-written portrait of a nurse and the lives she has touched
Christie Watson spent twenty years as a nurse, and in this intimate, poignant, and remarkably powerful book, she opens the doors of the hospital and shares its secrets. She takes us by her side down hospital corridors to visit... Read more
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Everything You Need to Know About Your Baby from Birth to Age Two
By: William Sears, Robert W. Sears, Martha Sears & James Sears
Narrated by: Derek Shetterly
Length: 35 hours 7 minutes
Revised and expanded: America's bestselling "baby bible" –– an encyclopedic guide to the first two years of your baby's life. The million-copy bestseller by “the man who remade motherhood” (TIME) has now been revised, expanded, and bought thoroughly up-to-date — with the latest information on prenatal vitamins, breastfeeding practices, daycare,... Read more
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Pfizer's Crimes Against Humanity
By: The WarRoom/DailyClout Pfizer Documents Analysts, Naomi Wolf & Amy Kelly
Narrated by: Laura Darrell
Length: 16 hours 1 minute
The Pfizer Papers features new reports written by WarRoom/DailyClout research volunteers, which are based on the primary source Pfizer clinical trial documents released under court order and on related medical literature. The book shows in high relief that Pfizer’s mRNA COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial was deeply flawed and that the... Read more
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Ace the National Healthcareer Association Certified Billing and Coding Specialist Exam? Master Your Career with Our Ultimate Study Guide | Over 200 Practice Questions | Realistic Scenarios and Clear Explanations!
By: Elara Quillington
Narrated by: Rob Williamson
Length: 7 hours 25 minutes
⭐⭐ Includes Questions & Answers! ⭐⭐
Are you aiming to advance in your career and solidify your knowledge by successfully passing the NHA Certified Billing and Coding Specialist (CBCS) Exam 2024-2025?
Looking for a comprehensive guide that provides all the necessary elements to ace the NHA CBCS Exam 2024-2025?
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Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond
By: Alice Roberts
Narrated by: Alice Roberts
Length: 9 hours 42 minutes
THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER
'Compulsive . . . A wonderful display of how modern archaeology can bring hidden histories to life' Daily Telegraph
'Gripping . . . I found it hard to put down' Evening Standard
'Another really good book from archaeologist Alice Roberts . . . Helps you understand the facts on a technical level, but also makes... Read more
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An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
Length: 16 hours 3 minutes
Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauqua Prize!
Named a New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Oprah Daily, BookPage, Book Riot, the New York Public Library, and more!
In The Song of the Cell, the extraordinary author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning... Read more
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Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
By: Rachel Aviv
Narrated by: Andi Arndt
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“This is part memoir, part examination of the experiences of four other people who experienced mental illness and struggled with the treatments available. Aviv is most insightful when writing about herself, or the affluent young woman who decides to go off her medications, most likely because Aviv relates more easily to her circumstances. Her... Read more
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A Memoir
By: Michele Harper
Narrated by: Nicole Lewis
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“This memoir is a fascinating examination of a life dedicated to helping others, and an illuminating, up-close view of what happens in emergency rooms. Moments of profound human connection exist alongside confrontations with dangerous and erratic patients, overzealous police demands, a lack of resources, and bureaucratic barriers. And the... Read more
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Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
By: Antonia Hylton
Narrated by: Antonia Hylton
Length: 11 hours 2 minutes
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation’s last segregated asylums, told by an award-winning journalist on her decade-long search for sanity in America’s mental healthcare system.
On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the... Read more
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Reimagining Chronic Illness
By: Meghan O'Rourke
Narrated by: Meghan O'Rourke
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
A landmark exploration of one of the most consequential and mysterious issues of our time: the rise of chronic illness and autoimmune diseases
A silent epidemic of chronic illnesses afflicts tens of millions of Americans: these are diseases that are poorly understood, frequently marginalized, and can go undiagnosed and unrecognized altogether.... Read more
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A travel companion for adults who have just found out they have ADHD
By: Matilda Boseley
Narrated by: Matilda Boseley
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes
Matilda Boseley's adult ADHD diagnosis was a massive, earth-shattering event. She was given a prescription but had no idea what ADHD meant for her identity, her relationships or her future.
Twelve months of confusion later, journalist Matilda embarked on an epic voyage to figure out what's really happening in the stormy seas of the ADHD brain and... Read more
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The Aftermath of Violence--From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
By: Judith Lewis Herman
Narrated by: Alison Mathews & Xe Sands
Length: 11 hours 33 minutes
The groundbreaking work on trauma that remains a “classic for our generation” (Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps the Score)
Trauma and Recovery is the foundational text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a political frame, psychiatrist Judith L. Herman argues that psychological trauma is... Read more
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The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
By: Harriet A. Washington
Narrated by: Ron Butler
Length: 19 hours 1 minute
Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. Starting with the earliest encounters between black Americans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, it details the ways both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted... Read more
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A Biography of Cancer
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 22 hours 17 minutes
Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, adapted as a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” (The New Yorker)—a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer. Now updated with three chapters illuminating the new... Read more
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