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.

Read all columns in this series: 

• So You Want to Talk About Race
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
• Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far
• Vaccinated: One Man’s Quest to Defeat the World’s Deadliest Diseases
• Pandora’s Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong 
• Lyme: The First Epidemic of Climate Change
• How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS 
• Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City  
• Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opioid Epidemic