Medicine audiobooks

Physiologische Psychologie: Neuropsychologie des Gedächtnisses - Abridged

By: Hans Joachim Markowitsch

Narrated by: Hans Joachim Markowitsch

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Das Gedächtnis wird definiert und seine Bedeutung evolutionsgeschichtlich begründet: Es existieren mehrere Gedächtnissysteme, die weitgehend unabhängig voneinander arbeiten und deswegen auch selektiv gestört sein können. Zustandsabhängigkeit und Dynamik von Informationsaufnahme und -abruf werden erläutert. Inwieweit menschliches Gedächtnis sich... Read more

Hay una respuesta

By: Luis Cortes

Narrated by: George Bass

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

El VIH y el SIDA son temas que asustan. No solo pueden destruir un cuerpo, sino que tambien pueden destruir una familia, las amistades y hasta una comunidad. A nadie le gusta hablar de eso, pero ignorar el problema no hara que este desaparezca. La unica manera en que podremos superar esta enfermedad es a traves de la educacion, la precaucion y... 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

Dein Gehirn bist Du! - Abridged

By: Manfred Spitzer

Narrated by: Manfred Spitzer

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Das Universum unseres Gehirns mit seinen Abermilliarden Nervenzellen, Synapsen und Verbindungen entdeckt sich selbst Schritt für Schritt. Waren früher die Sinneseindrücke wie Sehen und Hören Ziel der Forschung, sind es heute die komplexen Emotionen wie Vertrauen, Angst, Liebe oder Schadenfreude. Was unterscheidet das Gehirn von einem... Read more

Tatort Gehirn - Abridged

By: Hans Joachim Markowitsch

Narrated by: Hans Joachim Markowitsch

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Warum werden manche Menschen zu Verbrechern während andere ihr Leben lang brave Bürger bleiben? Sind Verbrecher schuldig für ihre Taten im klassischen Sinn, indem sie nämlich anders (normgerecht) hätten handeln können, oder sind Straftäter durch ihre Gene, ihre Lebensentwicklung und ihre Hirnorganisation determiniert, so zu handeln, wie sie es... Read more

The Uncertain Art

By: Sherwin B. Nuland

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Long-time physician Sherwin B. Nuland presents a provocative and stimulating collection of stories illustrating the vagaries of medical practice over the years. Among the fascinating and probing questions that Nuland investigates are:



—What does the first Hippocratic Oath really mean?



—What happens when knowledge comes before we're ready for... Read more

Hospital

By: Julie Salamon

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 14 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2005, Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, unveiled a new state-of-the-art, multimillion-dollar cancer center. Determined to understand the whole spectrum of factors that determine what kind of medical care people receive in this country, bestselling author Julie Salamon spent one year tracking the progess of the center and getting to... Read more

Blind Eye - Abridged

By: James B. Stewart

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A medical thriller from Pulitzer Prize–winning author James B. Stewart about serial killer doctor Michael Swango and the medical community that chose to turn a blind eye on his criminal activities.

No one could believe that the handsome young doctor might be a serial killer. Wherever he was hired—in Ohio, Illinois, New York, South Dakota—Michael... Read more

YOU: The Owner's Manual - Abridged

By: Mehmet C. Oz & Michael F. Roizen

Narrated by: Mehmet C. Oz & Michael F. Roizen

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The #1 bestseller that gives YOU complete control over your body and your health.With new health studies and advice bombarding us every day, few people know much about what chugs, churns, and thumps throughout the miraculous system that is the human anatomy.YOU: The Owner's Manual challenges preconceived notions about how the human body works... Read more

April Fool's Day

By: Bryce Courtenay

Narrated by: Humphrey Bower

Length: 19 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Bryce Courtenay's moving tribute to his son, Damon. Damon Courtenay died on the morning of April Fool's Day. In this tribute to his son, Bryce Courtenay lays bare the suffering behind this young man's life. Damon's story is one of life-long struggle, his love for Celeste, the compassion of family, and a fight to the end for integrity. A tragic... Read more

Power Up Your Mind

By: Bill Lucas

Narrated by: Francis Greenslade

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Much work-based training is a waste of time and money because the majority of people are neither emotionally ready nor practically inclined to apply their learning to the way they behave. Power Up Your Mind offers a new model of learning which will revolutionise the way you learn and perform. Bill Lucas - an internationally popular speaker,... Read more

Bad Blood - Abridged

By: Judith Reitman

Narrated by: Stephen Yankee

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In a shocking exposé of the American Red Cross, award-winning journalist Judith Reitman rips the veil of secrecy off the world's largest humanitarian charity. In 1984 triplet girls born three months prematurely received life-saving blood transfusions. A year later their parents learned that their donor had the AIDS virus. After years of... Read more

Tell Me Where It Hurts

By: Nick Trout

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

It all begins at 2:47 a.m. Then over one twenty-four-hour period, Dr. Trout fights for the life of a ten-year-old German shepherd, battles disease in the operating room, unravels tricky diagnoses, reassures frantic pet parents, and reflects on the humor, heartache, and inspiration in his life as an animal surgeon. And he wants to take you along... Read more

A Short History of Medicine

By: F. Gonzalez-Crussi

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Praised for his erudite writing, renowned scientist Frank GonzAlez-Crussi penned this concise history of medicine, beginning with the most primitive healthcare practices and ending with the technology of modern medicine that we enjoy today. As with all Modern Library Chronicles, A Short History of Medicine is a wonderful primer for anyone... Read more

The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead

By: David Shields

Narrated by: Don Leslie

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Mesmerized–at times unnerved–by his ninety-seven-year-old father’s nearly superhuman vitality and optimism, David Shields undertakes an investigation of the human physical condition. The result is this exhilarating audiobook: both a personal meditation on mortality and an exploration of flesh-and-blood existence from crib to oblivion–an... Read more

More Hot Sex

By: Tracey Cox

Narrated by: Marie-Louise Walker

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

No matter how good you think your sex life is, there's always a tip, trick or technique to make it even better. And you won't find a better compilation of libido-lifting, orgasm-orbiting, titillating titbits! More Hot Sex combines the very latest in sex research with hundreds of hot sex tips to guarantee bliss between the sheets for everyone.... Read more

The Day Donny Herbert Woke Up

By: Rich Blake

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Donny Herbert was a hardworking Buffalo city firefighter who, in December 1995, was searching the attic of a burning house when the snow-laden roof collapsed. For six minutes he was without oxygen. A beloved husband, a father of four boys, a neighborhood fixture who was always willing to lend a helping hand, Donny fell into a vegetative state... Read more

The Head Trip

By: Jeff Warren

Narrated by: Raymond Todd

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A world at once familiar and unimaginably strange exists all around us—and within us. It is the world of consciousness, a protean mental landscape that each of us knows intimately and yet understands scarcely at all. Despite the attempts of scientists and mystics, poets and dreamers, crackpots and geniuses, to map its contours and explain its... Read more

A Life Decoded

By: J. Craig Venter

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 16 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Growing up in California, J. Craig Venter didn't appear to have much of a future. An unremarkable student, he nearly flunked out of high school. After being drafted into the army, he enlisted in the navy and went to Vietnam, where the life-and-death struggles he encountered as a medic piqued his interest in science and medicine. After pursuing... Read more

You: Staying Young - Abridged

By: Michael F. Roizen & Mehmet Oz

Narrated by: Michael F. Roizen & Mehmet Oz

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Winner of the 2009 Audie Award for Personal Development

Now substantially updated with a groundbreaking new introduction on telomeres, bioidentical hormones, and more, Drs. Oz and Roizen—the bestselling coauthors of the blockbuster YOU series—present a new edition of their #1 New York Times bestselling indispensable guide to maintaining vibrant... Read more

Switching Time

By: Richard Baer

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Switching Time is the first story centering on multiple personality disorder to be told by the treating physician. It is the incredible saga of a young woman stranded in unimaginable darkness who, in order to survive, created seventeen different versions of herself.



In 1989, Karen Overhill walked into the office of psychiatrist Richard Baer... Read more

Written on the Skin

By: Liz Porter

Narrated by: Elizabeth Kaye

Length: 14 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In a close examination of an assault victim's body, a forensic physician can 'read' the terrible alphabet that fists and weapons have written across it. A crime scene investigator notes the tiny indentations on the fragments of a tin can identified at a bomb site, enabling him to find the can opener that made them - and the bomb-maker who used... Read more

Crashing Through

By: Robert Kurson

Narrated by: Doug Ordunio

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Blinded at age three, Mike May defied expectations by breaking world records in downhill speed skiing, joining the CIA, and becoming a successful inventor, entrepreneur, and family man. He had never yearned for vision.

Then, in 1999, a chance encounter brought startling news: a revolutionary stem cell transplant surgery could restore May’s... Read more

Crashing Through - Abridged

By: Robert Kurson

Narrated by: Christopher Evan Welch

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

BONUS FEATURE: Exclusive interview with Robert Kurson and Michael May

In his critically acclaimed bestseller Shadow Divers, Robert Kurson explored the depths of history, friendship, and compulsion. Now Kurson returns with another thrilling adventure–the stunning true story of one man’s heroic odyssey from blindness into sight.

Mike May spent his... Read more