Explorations in Health and Wellness

This collection features a diverse range of essays and short works that delve into various aspects of health, fitness, and the human experience. From historical perspectives on medical practices to personal narratives about mental health and wellness, these titles provide insightful reflections on the evolving understanding of health.

The Anatomy of Melancholy

by Robert Burton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The Anatomy of Melancholy is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621. On its surface, the book is a medical textbook in which Burto…

Health and Fitness

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
This is the seventeenth Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select English language public domain works of about 15 minutes o…

The Pivot of Civilization

by Margaret Sanger Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Margaret Sanger's most important and well known work, Sanger argues through her background in medicine the relation between disease and suff…

The Book of Love

by Paolo Mantegazza Read by LibriVox Volunteers 1.4
Translated from Italian, it delves into the physiology of love from a scientific standpoint, in beautiful writing.

The Fun of Getting Thin

by Samuel G. Blythe Read by Christine Lehman 4.5
In this short, amusing book, subtitled "How to Be Thin and Reduce The Waist Line," Samuel G. Blythe explains how he was able to lo…

Little Masterpieces of Science

by George Iles Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
One of a series of books, "Little Masterpieces in Science" edited by George Iles, Health and Healing is a collection of articles w…

No Doorway Wide Enough

by Bill Schmalfeldt Read by Bill Schmalfeldt 4.5
It was just about three weeks after his 45th birthday in 2000 when Bill Schmalfeldt was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. In 2007 while wo…

Obesity and Diabetes

by Various 4.5
Obesity and diabetes are increasingly a burden in modern populations, and whilst the contributions of our lifestyles are well-known, other a…

Unmasked, or the Science of Immorality

by Mary Edwards Walker Read by Pamela Nagami 4.1
Mary Edwards Walker was a physician and surgeon who served in the Civil War. An abolitionist, prohibitionist, and cross-dressing leader of t…

The Brain and the Voice in Speech and Song

by Frederick Walker Mott Read by Marya James
From the Preface: "The contents of this little book formed the subject of three lectures delivered at the Royal Institution "On th…

The Logic of Vegetarianism

by Henry Salt Read by Lee Smalley 4.7
With clear logic and entertaining dialogues, the author presents many reasons for a vegetarian rather than a “flesh-eating” diet, and his ar…

Apis Mellifica

by C. W. Wolf Read by Marie Daum 5
Apis Mellifica explores the therapeutic potential of Apis Mellifica, a homeopathic remedy derived from the venom of honey bees. In this insi…

A Mind That Found Itself

by Clifford Whittingham Beers Read by Skip Corris 5
At twenty-four, Clifford Beers, Yale graduate and son of an old New England family, was confined to a mental institution, where he experienc…

Bacteria in Daily Life

by Grace Coleridge Frankland Read by J. M. Smallheer 4.5
The author provides a fascinating look at the emerging science of bacteriology at the start of the twentieth century including early progres…

Safeguarding children

by Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Iss and Presidential Commission For The Study Of Bioethical Iss Read by Patrick McHaffie
Safeguarding Children: Pediatric Medical Countermeasure Research is the response from the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethica…