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.
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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
- Jazyk
- Rok vydání
- 2025
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Platební metody
- Titul
- Everything Is Tuberculosis
- Podtitul
- The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autoři
- John Green
- Vydavatel
- Ebury Press
- Rok vydání
- 2025
- Vazba
- měkká
- Počet stran
- 208
- ISBN10
- 1529961440
- ISBN13
- 9781529961447
- Série
- Štítky
- Naučná literatura, Historické téma, Historie
- Hodnocení
- 4,4 z 5
- Anotace
- 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.