Reference books		Publications for parents
Periodicals		Nonfiction books

Nonfiction books

Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure By Paul A. Offit, MD (Columbia University Press, 2008: 328 pages) In this book, Paul A. Offit, a national expert on vaccines, recounts the history of autism research and the exploitation of this tragic condition by advocates and zealots. To order, visit your local bookstore or order online. Contact Columbia University Press at (800) 944-8648 or by fax at (800) 944-1844.

Twin Voices: A Memoir of Polio, the Forgotten Killer By Janice Flood Nichols (iUniverse, Inc., 2007: 282 pages) As a polio survivor, Janice Nichols writes about about how her family was affected by polio in the 1950s. To order, visit your local bookstore.

Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases By Paul A. Offit, MD (HarperCollins, 2007) To purchase, visit your local bookstore, or order online.

Vaccine-Preventable Disease: The Forgotten Story By Rachel M. Cunningham, MPH; Julie A. Boom, MD; and Carol J. Baker, MD Written by experts from the Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Awareness and Research (CVAR) in response to increased media attention on vaccines, this book profiles families devastated by vaccine-preventable disease. The book seeks to educate families about the importance of protecting children through vaccines and to dispel the myth that vaccine-preventable diseases are merely relics of the past. To purchase ($3.00), order online.

The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis By Paul A. Offit, MD (Yale University Press, 2007: 256 pages) To purchase, visit your local bookstore, or order online.

Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver By Arthur Allen (W. W. Norton, 2007: 512 pages) To purchase, visit your local bookstore, or order online.

The End of Polio? By Tim Brookes and Omar A. Khan, M.D., M.H.S. (APHA Press, 2006: 206 pages) The authors give an on-the-ground look inside the worldwide effort to eradicate polio in countries from Pakistan to Nigeria. To order, visit APHA's Web site: www.aphabookstore.org

Polio: An American Story By David M. Oshinsky, winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in History (Oxford University Press, 2006: 368 pages) To purchase, visit your local bookstore, or order online.

The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History By John M. Barry (Penguin, 2005: 546 pages) To purchase, visit your local bookstore, or order online.

Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It By Gina Kolata (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2001: 256 pages). To purchase, visit your local bookstore.

This page was reviewed on November 12, 2009