 | Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $6.27 An intelligent, well-researched and well-written book. Reminds us that polio was the first great lobbyists disease.
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 | Flu : The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic by Gina Kolata
Buy used from: $5.19 Kolata weaves history, global politics and forensic epidemiology together into a gripping and informative narrative.
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 | The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition by Edward R. Tufte
Buy new: $25.20 / Used from: $22.00 If ever a title did a disservice to a book, this is it. Fascinating, thought-provoking and very beautiful.
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 | Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Buy used from: $7.93 A good read, and well-researched, though light on the consumer side (obesity and other downsides of the Great Innovations of fast food).
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 | Disease and Democracy: The Industrialized World Faces AIDS (California/ Milbank Books on Health and the Public) by Peter Baldwin
Buy new: $25.95 / Used from: $9.81 Very thorough account of the clash that AIDS provoked between Public Health (an inherently fascist discipline) and Public Policy (which sacrifices at the alter of the voter).
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 | And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition by Randy Shilts
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $9.72 The Godfather of all AIDS books. Written with great passion and a fair bit of insight.
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 | The Malaria Capers : More Tales of Parasites and People, Research and Reality by Robert S. Desowitz
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $3.75 |
 | The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
Buy used from: $10.99 Interesting topic, but the "here's another fascinating coincidence" sign-posting is more laboured than necessary for a reader of average intelligence.
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 | The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa by Helen Epstein
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $9.82 One of the better AIDS books. Very well written and really quite engaging. Struggles, though, between the desire to follow the science and the need not to be TOO politically incorrect.
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