Medicine audiobooks

Theory of Pyschoanalysis

By: Carl Jung

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Although the theories presented in this book, a 1915 edition of the lectures Jung presented at Fordham University, are now thoroughly outdated, this book is still a fascinating glimpse of Jung's mind at a crucial time in his life. Just three years previously, he had struck out on his own, publishing his Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido, known... Read more

Excitotoxins

By: Russell L. Blaylock

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Ex•cí•to•tox•in: a substance added to foods and beverages that literally stimulates neurons to death, causing brain damage of varying degrees. Can be found in such ingredients as monosodium glutamate, aspartame (NutraSweet®), cysteine, hydrolyzed protein, and aspartic acid.Citing over five hundred scientific studies, Excitotoxins explores the... Read more

Notes on Nursing

By: Florence Nightingale

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Notes on Nursing is a classic by Florence Nightingale (the first modern nurse). Florence Nightingale's methods were revolutionary in her time, and they form the basis for the techniques of patient management that have been taught ever since. Notes on Nursing is a great overview, in her own words, of Florence Nightingale's ideas on care,... Read more

Never Fear Cancer Again

By: Raymond Francis

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 13 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Most cancer research dollars have been wasted asking the wrong questions, looking in the wrong places, and using the same failed approaches while expecting different results. Conventional cancer treatments damage health, cause new cancers, lower the quality of life, and decrease the chances of survival. In fact, most people who die from cancer... Read more

The New Bible Cure for Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia

By: Don Colbert

Narrated by: Sharilynn Dunn

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you feeling drained and depleted for no apparent reason? It is time to win the battle against chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia once and for all! Incorporating the latest medical findings with the timeless wisdom of the Bible, The New Bible Cure for Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia contains information that your own doctor never may have told... Read more

The New Bible Cure for Stress

By: Don Colbert

Narrated by: Sharilynn Dunn

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Feeling overwhelmed? You can live a less-stressed life! Reclaim control over your spiritual, emotional, and physical health, and conquer stress today. Incorporating the latest medical findings with the timeless wisdom of the Bible, The New Bible Cure for Stress contains findings that your own doctor never may have told you, including…•... Read more

Gifted Hands

By: Ben Carson, M.D. & Cecil Murphey

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Gifted Hands reveals the remarkable journey of Dr. Ben Carson from an angry, struggling young boy with everything stacked against him to the director of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center.As a boy, he did poorly in school and struggled with anger. If it were not for the persistence of his mother, a single parent who... Read more

Diagnose Krebs - Abridged

By: Herbert Kappauf

Narrated by: Herbert Kappauf

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Krebs ist nicht pauschal EINE Erkrankung. DEN Krebs oder DIE Krebstherapie gibt es nicht. Vielmehr bezeichnet diese Diagnose rund 200 VERSCHIEDENE Krankheiten. Dementsprechend sind die Therapieansätze und Behandlungserfolge bei den einzelnen Krebserkrankungen sehr unterschiedlich. Zweifellos kann die moderne Krebsmedizin insgesamt auf... Read more

Kosmos Gehirn - Abridged

By: Michael Madeja

Narrated by: Michael Madeja

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die Hirnforschung hat in den vergangenen Jahren einen großen Aufschwung erfahren und wird von vielen als die wichtigste Forschungsdisziplin der Zukunft angesehen. Entsprechend hoch sind die Fördermittel für die Forschung und das Interesse der Öffentlichkeit. Zunächst wird in den Aufbau des Gehirns und seine Funktionsprinzipien eingeführt. Davon... Read more

The Youngest Science

By: Lewis Thomas

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In this partially autobiographical work, best-selling author Lewis Thomas offers insights on subjects as wide-ranging as gender differences, how it feels to be a patient, human vs. computer intelligence, the future of cancer research, and the longevity of the planet-interspersing all with charming anecdotes about his family, his colleagues and... Read more

The Stem Cell Hope

By: Alice Park

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A landmark book by the senior science writer at Time magazine introduces us to a medical breakthrough that can save our lives.

Few people know much about stem cell research beyond the ethical questions raised by using embryos. But in the last decade, stem cell research has made huge advances toward eliminating some of our most intractable... Read more

Ask Me Why I Hurt

By: Randy Christensen, M.D. & Rene Denfeld

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The unforgettable inspiring memoir of one extraordinary doctor who is saving lives in a most unconventional way, Ask Me Why I Hurt is the touching and revealing first-person account of the remarkable work of Dr. Randy Christensen. Trained as a pediatrician, he works not in a typical hospital setting but, rather, in a 38-foot Winnebago that has... Read more

Confessions of a Knife

By: Richard Selzer

Narrated by: Sam Gray

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A professor of surgery and writing at Yale, Selzer opens windows on the world of medical oddities in this collection of candid, introspective essays. His subjects are sometimes grisly but always offer tantalizing insights. Selections including Sarcophagus, Pages from a Wound-Dresser's Diary, and Love Sick reveal Selzer's boundless curiosity... Read more

Reiki: an Ancient Healing Art Revisited

By: Marguerite Antonio

Narrated by: Joanna Henning

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you want to learn more about the marvelous, magical tools our ancestors used to help maintain and heal their bodies? Reiki (pronounced ray-key) is one such tool. The practice dates back to before the time of Christ and unleashes spiritual wisdom and life force energy. It may have begun in Tibet, India, or Egypt, but it has spread... Read more

The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women

By: Barbara Seaman

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

For over 40 years Barbara Seaman has been a leading women's health advocate. Now she blows the lid off the estrogen industry in this fascinating book that holds the power to improve-possibly even save-women's lives. In America 30 million women take estrogen. Seaman shows that this powerful hormone is hardly the cure-all some claim it is. In... Read more

The Healing Code

By: Alexander Loyd

Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

With over 1 million copies sold worldwide and translated into 29 languages, Dr. Alex Loyd's international bestselling book is a life-changing program that uses energy medicine to heal mental and physical challenges.
The Healing Code is your healing kit for life-to recover from the issues you know about, and repair the ones you don't. The book... Read more

Ever By My Side

By: Nick Trout

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Nick Trout has captivated audiences with his books that take us behind the scenes into the heartwarming—and sometimes heartrending—world of veterinary medicine. In a perfect follow-up to his first two books, he turns his lens inward and offers a funny, moving, and thoughtful, memoir about the animals he's had... Read more

Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee: The Emperor of all Maladies

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In his new book The Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee delves into the history and future of the disease.Rather than being a rare exception in our otherwise healthy lives, “quite possibly, cancer is our normalcy,” Mukherjee writes. “We are inherently destined to slouch towards a malignant end,”... Read more

The Tell-Tale Brain

By: V. S. Ramachandran

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 13 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

V. S. Ramachandran is at the forefront of his field—so much so that Richard Dawkins dubbed him the "Marco Polo of neuroscience." Now, in a major new work, Ramachandran sets his sights on the mystery of human uniqueness. Taking us to the frontiers of neurology, he reveals what baffling and extreme case studies can teach us about normal brain... Read more

The Panic Virus

By: Seth Mnookin

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The Panic Virus is a gripping scientific detective story about how grassroots radicals, snake-oil salesmen, and cynical journalists have perpetrated the biggest health-scare hoax of all time. It explores what happens when the media treats all viewpoints as equally valid, regardless of facts, from parents who are convinced that vaccines caused... Read more

Genome

By: Matt Ridley

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

“Ridley leaps from chromosome to chromosome in a handy summation of our ever increasing understanding of the roles that genes play in disease, behavior, sexual differences, and even intelligence. . . . . He addresses not only the ethical quandaries faced by contemporary scientists but the reductionist danger in equating inheritability with... Read more

Facing Down a Family Physician Shortage

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In the latest in a series on health reform, Betty Ann Bowser reports from California on what's being done to inspire medical students to address a shortage of primary care doctors. Read more

Deadly Spin

By: Wendell Potter

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

"My name is Wendell Potter, and for twenty years I worked as a senior executive at health insurance companies. I saw how they confuse their customers and dump the sick—all so they can satisfy their Wall Street investors." —Senate testimony, June 24, 2009



Wendell Potter is the insurance industry's worst nightmare.



In June 2009, Wendell Potter made... Read more

The Queen of Fats

By: Susan Allport

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A nutritional whodunit that takes listeners from Greenland to Africa to Israel, The Queen of Fats gives a fascinating account of how we have become deficient in a nutrient that is essential for good health: the fatty acids know as omega-3s. Writing with intelligence and passion, Susan Allport tells the story of these vital fats, which are... Read more