Everything Is Tuberculosis (Signed Edition): The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
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John Green, acclaimed author and passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease. Signed edition
“The real magic of Green’s writing is the deeply considerate, human touch that goes into every word.” –The Associated Press
″Told with the intelligence, wit, and tragedy that have become hallmarks of the author’s work.... This is the story of us.” –Slate
“Earnest and empathetic.” –The New York Times
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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Community Reviews
This book is an astounding eye opener. The world is deliberately ignorant of the facts surrounding this deadly disease. I should say, the “rich” world. The solutions put forth by the author are sensible, doable, but as with must inequality, they have little to do with the medical cause of the infection, and more to do with the injustice surrounding accessibility to the cure. We need virtuous cycles, not vicious cycles. This book is a must read.
I wanted to read this book because my family has been affected by TB. My grandparents lived in PA when my grandmother contracted TB. In 1948 they loaded their kids into the vehicle and headed to Phoenix, AZ. The vehicle broke down in Albuquerque, NM and that is where they stayed. My grandmother had many health issues from tuberculosis, she passed away in 1987 when I was fourteen. I have always been curious about the history of TB and this book answered many of those questions.
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