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NACCHO Book Review — Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending US Poverty

Posted on July 20, 2021 by Julia Mandeville

Each month, NACCHO brings you a new public health book, read and reviewed by NACCHO staff. Book reviews in this series originally appeared on NACCHO Voice: The Word on Local health Departments and are republished here with permission. Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding and Ending US Poverty, critically examines public policies and how they have contributed to the inequitable access to and distribution of

NACCHO Book Club: Moloka’i & Daughter of Moloka’i

Posted on April 26, 2021 by Emily Yox, MPH

by Emily Yox, MPH Each month, NACCHO brings you a new public health book, read and reviewed by NACCHO staff. Book reviews in this series originally appeared on NACCHO Voice: The Word on Local health Departments and are republished here with permission. There are a couple of firsts in this recommendation–I am recommending two books instead of just one, and these fall closer to

NACCHO Book Review: Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

Posted on January 7, 2021 by jphmpdirect

by Emily Yox, MPH Each month, NACCHO brings you a new public health book, read and reviewed by NACCHO staff. Book reviews in this series originally appeared on NACCHO Voice: The Word on Local health Departments and are republished here with permission. This book is one of the best historical compilations of the abuses of Black Americans done in the name of science and

NACCHO Book Review: The Warmth of Other Suns

Posted on October 26, 2020 by jphmpdirect

by Emily Yox, MPH Each month, NACCHO brings you a new public health book, read and reviewed by NACCHO staff. Book reviews in this series originally appeared on NACCHO Voice: The Word on Local health Departments and are republished here with permission. The Warmth of Other Suns shares incredible stories of Black Americans who left the south during the Great Migration and came

NACCHO Book Club: The Butchering Art-Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

Posted on September 18, 2020 by jphmpdirect

by Emily Yox, MPH Each month, NACCHO brings you a new public health book, read and reviewed by NACCHO staff. Book reviews in this series originally appeared on NACCHO Voice: The Word on Local health Departments and are republished here with permission. This book was recommended to me by a member of our NACCHO Book Club and it was a fascinating and quick read!

Author Paul Offit Discusses His Latest Book, “Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far”

Posted on May 21, 2020 by jphmpdirect

by Emily Yox, MPH Each month, NACCHO brings you a new public health book, read and reviewed by NACCHO staff. Book reviews in this series originally appeared on NACCHO Voice: The Word on Local health Departments and are republished here with permission. After reviewing two of his books for previous recommendations (Pandora’s Lab and Vaccinated) I was able to (virtually) sit down with Dr. Paul

The Body: A Guide for Occupants

Posted on May 4, 2020 by jphmpdirect

by Emily Yox, MPH Each month, NACCHO brings you a new public health book, read and reviewed by NACCHO staff. Book reviews in this series originally appeared on NACCHO Voice: The Word on Local health Departments and are republished here with permission. I am a big fan of Bill Bryson’s writing, so I was very excited and surprised when I saw that he recently

Vaccinated: One Man’s Quest to Defeat the World’s Deadliest Diseases

Posted on February 27, 2020 by jphmpdirect

by Emily Yox, MPH Each month, NACCHO brings you a new public health book, read and reviewed by NACCHO staff. Book reviews in this series originally appeared on NACCHO Voice: The Word on Local health Departments and are republished here with permission. Vaccinated, by Paul Offit, tells the incredible story of Maurice Hilleman, aptly named the father of modern vaccines.