Free Health, Fitness & Medicine Books Online

Introduction

This is a listing of sites that legally offer free books on Health, Fitness & Medicine, for reading and listening (audio).

All of these sites listed have content that is legal to distribute.  If you find that any site listed is offering content that can not be legally transferred, please let me know in the comments below. 

Also, I would appreciate it if you would post comments about any sites that you like or do not like so that information can be added to the site's listing here.  This would help new users to decide which sites to try.

This list is not comprehensive and if you know of any other sites please post in the comments below or at our forums. 

A comprehensive alphabetical listing of free books for reading or listening can be found on these pages:

• 100+ Places For Free Books Online
• Free Audio Books Online

There will be other books on Health, Fitness & Medicine at the sites listed there, but they are not categorized at the sites.

Libraries are also an excellent source for reading and listening materials.  To find out more information on your local library, the links here may help:  Library Information

There are 12 other book  pages here at Gizmo's covering other various popular book genres and offering links to free online books listed here:  Book Genre Pages

Health/Fitness/Medicine

Search engines provided by the the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) are placed at the top of this list (rather than alphabetically).  Note that MedLine Plus is a portal designed to give the general public ready access to trustworthy health information. 

MedLine Plus is a great, trustworthy site for general health information, including tutorials, clinical trial updates and the latest news in medicine. You can also find plenty of books, including some  intended for children.

PubMed Central This search engine covers all the open-access articles [rather than books] available on PubMed, the NLM's main academic portal (where you can also find abstracts from many restricted-access articles).

PubMed Bookshelf is an engine which lets you search for (and then consult) books containing keywords of your choice.

2020k (Health Mind & Body) Large collection of links divided into categories and sub categories

BookYards (Health)  Around 50 books on medicine and personal health available for download in pdf.

ChestofBooks (Health & Healing) Around 100 books available for online viewing.

FreeeBooks.info (Health Mind&Body) Links to 35 books on varying health and self-help topics some available for online viewing and some for pdf download

FreeeBooks.net (Health)  (Fitness) (Psychology) 140 books on health and self-help topics available in pdf or html

FreeBookSpot (Medicine)(Health&Care)(Self-Help)(Psychology) Between these four categories there are several hundred interesting books available for download in pdf

GoogleBookSearch (Health) 146 books available for online viewing or download as pdf

Heygidday (Health)(Psychology) Interesting and relatively large collection of health, fitness, health science and psychology available for download in pdf (zipped)

ManyBooks (Health)(Psychology) Around 250 books on unique topics in the health and psychology fields available for download in several formats

MemoWare (Medicine) 572 writings regarding medicine and health available in varying formats

OnlineBooks4Free (Medicine) Over 200 writings, mostly studies, but some books available for online viewing or download

OnlineFreeeBooks (Recreation) 4 martial arts books

Qvadis (Medicine) 154 works available for download in doc

WitGuides (Health) 87 books on fitness, parenting and relationships

Wowio (Health Mind & Body) 112, mostly self help books available for online viewing

Health/Fitness/Medicine (audio)

AudioBooks has Living the Good Life  and Fit From Within for download.  You must register (free) to download.

BooksShouldBeFree has 5 free audio books under their Medical category available for download in very good quality MP3 or as text for reading.

LearnOutLoud has 20 free audio books under its Health & fitness category.  They are available in different ways, including online listening, MP3 or MP4 as many link to other sites.