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Everything Is Tuberculosis

The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

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  • 208 stránok
  • 8 hodin čítania

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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, John Green

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Rok vydania
2025
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4,4
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121117 Hodnotenie

An okay history of tuberculosis. The narrator isn’t a scientist and doesn’t dive into the details the way really good histories of science do. On the other hand, for a John Green book, it’s not witty enough. I really liked The Anthropocene Reviewed and was hoping for a similar vibe.

Titul
Everything Is Tuberculosis
Podtitul
The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
Jazyk
anglicky
Vydavateľ
Ebury Press
Rok vydania
2025
Väzba
mäkká
Počet strán
208
ISBN10
1529961440
ISBN13
9781529961447
Série
Hodnotenie
4,4 z 5
Anotácia
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.