RECOMMENDED READING LIST FOR PHS ENGINEER OFFICERS

INTRODUCTION:

This recommended reading list was originally intended to be a first step in deriving a recommended reading list of books for all US Public Health Service (PHS) officers.   This list currently serves as the Engineer's Category Recommended Reading list.  This list is similar to those used by other uniformed services. The books have been categorized to identify those that provide information specific to the PHS and public health, those that focus on the fundamental characteristics of leadership and management, and those that focus on the various aspects of the engineering profession.

 This idea was championed by a PHS engineer who, for two years in a row at the annual PHS Engineers lunch, heard the Chief Engineer refer to books that he had read. This reading list contains book recommendations from current and past Chief Engineers, current and retired PHS Flag Officers, and both junior and senior PHS Engineers.

 Please contact CDR Nelson Mix to provide recommendations for other books to be considered for this list.

For additional resources, the Junior Officer Advisory Group(JOAG) Professional Reading List can be found at: http://www.joag.org/readinglist.html

JUNIOR & SENIOR OFFICER LIST:

 Plagues and Politics, Fitzhugh Mullan, MD, This is “standard issue” for all officers.

 Service Etiquette, Fourth Edition, Oretha D. Swartz, This is a good reference book. 

 Beating Back the Devil, Maryn McKenna (Free Press, 2004).  It is subtitled, "On the frontlines with the disease detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service."   Recommended by RADM Barror.

 A Century of Adventure in Northern Health, CAPT Robert Fortuine, USPHS (Ret.).  It is a 100 year history of the PHS Commissioned Corps in Alaska, and will soon be the first book published by the Commissioned Officers Foundation.

 Public Health Reports, Historical Reports 1798 – 2005, edited by Robert A. Rinsky, PhD., order at publichealthreports.org, recommended by RADM Jerrold M. Michael (Ret.) in COA Frontline, Vol. 43, and Issue 4.

JUNIOR OFFICER MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP LIST:

Army Leadership: Be, Know, Do; FM 22-100.

The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell; Oren Harari.

Lincoln on Leadership; Donald T. Phillips.

Koop; C. Everett Koop 

We Were Soldiers Once… And Young; Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore (ret.) and Joseph L. Galloway.

 A Victor Not a Butcher: Ulysses S. Grant’s Overlooked Military Genius; E. H. Bonekemper III.

 Soul of the Lion: A Biography of Joshua L. Chamberlain; Willard M. Wallace.

SENIOR OFFICER MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP LIST:

The Founding Fathers on Leadership, Donald T. Phillips, Warner Books.

Cigars, Whiskey, & Winning- Leadership Lessons from General Ulysses S. Grant, Al Kahman

Robert's Rule of Order Simplified and Applied, 2nd edition, 2001.

Shackleton's Way: Leadership Lessons from the Great Antarctic Explorer, Margot Morrell and Stephanie Capparell.

7 Habits of highly Effective People, Steven R. Covey.

ENGINEER CATEGORY SPECIFIC LIST:

Under Development

POTENTIAL ENGINEERING BOOKS TO ADD TO THE ENGINEERING CATEGORY LIST:

1.  The Next 50 Years, John Brockman, Vintage

2.  Inventing Modern, John Leinhard, Oxford

3.  Great Feuds in Technology, Hellman, Wiley

4.  The Engines of Our Ingenuity, John Leinhard, Oxford

5.  The Evolution of Useful Things, Henry Petroski, Vintage

6.  Remaking the World, Henry Petroski

7.  Designing Everyday Things, Donald Norman, Basic Books

8.  Inventing Disaster, James R. Chiles, Harper Books

9.  American Firsts, Spignesi, New Page Books

10.  Invention By Design, Henry Petroski, Harvard

11.  The Curious Life of Robert Hooke, Lisa Jardine,Harper, Collins

12.  The Scientists, John Gribbin, Random House

13.  Einstein's Clocks, Poincares Maps, Pater Galison, Norton

14.  E=MC2 (Great Ideas That Shaped Our World), Pete Moore, Friedman/Fairfax