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In an effort to develop a new resource for members, the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) recently asked its staff, “What are your favorite public health-related books, movies, articles, and novels?” With 100+ avid readers and film watchers on staff, we came up with a long list of favorites to recommend to members. The ten titles below (and in no particular order) are just a sampling of staff suggestions. So, cozy up to the bookshelf… and stay tuned for a list of NACCHO members’ top picks coming soon.
Books 1 - 10 of 10 by Institute Of Medicine Staff
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"The Nation has lost sight of its public health goals and has allowed the system of public health to fall into 'disarray'," from "The Future of Public Health". This startling book contains proposals for ensuring that public health service programs are... (read more) Your Price $23.00 Used - Trade Paper 
by Anne Fadiman
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors... (read more) Used - Trade Paper
by Laurie Garrett
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In this meticulously researched and ultimately explosive new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the New York Times bestseller The Coming Plague, Laurie Garrett takes readers across the globe to reveal how a series of potential and present... (read more) Your Price $5.50 Used - Trade Paper 
by Laurie Garrett
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Unpurified drinking water. Improper use of antibiotics. Local warfare. Massive refugee migration. Changing social and environmental conditions around the world have fostered the spread of new and potentially devastating viruses and diseases—HIV... (read more) Your Price $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
by Tracy Kidder
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THE HEART AND THE FIST shares one mans story of extraordinary leadership and service as both a humanitarian and a warrior. In a life lived at the raw edges of the human experience, Greitens has seen what can be accomplished when compassion and courage... (read more) Your Price $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
by Richard Preston
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The first major bioterror event in the United States — the anthrax attacks in October 2001 — was a clarion call for scientists who work with "hot" agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons. In The Demon... (read more) Your Price $4.50 Used - Mass Market
by Richard Preston
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A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is... (read more) Your Price $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
by Randy Shilts
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Upon it's first publication twenty years ago, And The Band Played on was quickly recognized as a masterpiece of investigatve reporting. An international bestseller, a nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and made into a... (read more) Your Price $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
by Bernard J. Turnock
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Using A Straightforward Systems Approach, Public Health: What It Is And How It Works Explores The Inner Workings Of The Complex, Modern U.S. Public Health System--What It Is, What It Does, How It Works, And Why It Is Important. It Covers The Origins And... (read more) New - Trade Paper
by John M Barry
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No disease the world has ever known even remotely resembles the great influenza epidemic of 1918. Presumed to have begun when sick farm animals infected soldiers in Kansas, spreading and mutating into a lethal strain as troops carried it to Europe, it... (read more) Your Price $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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