John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest disease.Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is seen as a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it.In 2019, author John Green met Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, preventable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing over a million people every year.In Everything Is Tuberculosis, John tells Henry’s story, woven through with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world—and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis.
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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
By John Green
John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest disease.Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is seen as a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it.In 2019, author John Green met Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, preventable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing over a million people every year.In Everything Is Tuberculosis, John tells Henry’s story, woven through with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world—and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis.
Popular Reviews(8)
Reviewed by coffeedate.with.meThis might be the best non fiction book I read this year. Green points out how tuberculosis is intertwined in culture, society and western beauty standards to this day. Truly eye opening
Reviewed by PaulinaNot to be dramatic but I would die for Henry 🥲❤️🩹
Reviewed by Zo zBook club book! This book was fascinating. John Green’s style was informative while also being able to tell the story of Henry. He paints a great image of the complexity of all the systems that impact healthcare, and how unjust that system is.
Reviewed by ErinVery informative on how much more TB affects those in underdeveloped countries. As of 2023, there were 1,250,000 TB deaths. Just a horrifying disease.
Reviewed by SchniekerikeEin Buch, das die Aufmerksamkeit auf die überaus relevanten Themen Tbc und die soziale Ungerechtigkeit der medizinischen Versorgung weltweit lenkt - leicht zugänglich, teils repetitiv geschrieben. Insbesondere die Isolierung und Beschränkung der Erkrankten in den Sanatorien haben mich nachhaltig berührt; die Romantisierung und der Einfluss auf die Mode von Tbc waren mir neu. Das Hörbuch, welches von John Green selbst gelesen wird, kann ich empfehlen. Insgesamt interessant, jedoch nicht außergewöhnlich.