Everything Is Tuberculosis
The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
by John Green
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âThis highly readable call to action could not be more timely.â âKirkus, starred review
âMemÂorably probes the intersections of medicine and human emotion.â âBookpage, starred review
Tuberculosis has been entwined with huÂmanity 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 beÂcame 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 inequiÂties that allow this curable, preventable infecÂtious disease to also be the deadliest, killing over a million people every year.
In Everything Is Tuberculosis, John tells Henryâs story, woven through with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our worldâand how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis.
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- ISBN: 9781101592410
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- ISBN: 9781101592410
- File size: 4211 KB
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- English
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February 7, 2025
Tuberculosis (TB) killed more than one million people in 2023 and over a billion in the last 200 years. TB is an airborne infection that spreads in crowded, poorly ventilated spaces. Most who are infected remain asymptomatic, but people with impaired immune systems, malnutrition, and chronic diseases such as diabetes risk active disease. Although TB is now preventable and curable, much of society chooses to ignore it. Bestselling and award-winning YA novelist and essayist Green (The Fault in Our Stars; The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet) became interested in TB while visiting Laka Hospital in Sierra Leone, where he befriended a young patient named Henry. His new book looks at the history, science, and sociology of TB. It jumps from scientific explanations of German microbiologist Robert Koch's work to analysis of the inequities in healthcare and economics that make even inexpensive drugs and basic care unavailable in many parts of the world. VERDICT An interesting but scattered view of one of the world's major curable diseases. Recommended for public and consumer health library collections.--Barbara M. Bibel
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