Everything is tuberculosis : the history and persistence of our deadliest infection / John Green.
2025
RA644.T7 G824 2025
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Title
Everything is tuberculosis : the history and persistence of our deadliest infection / John Green.
Author
ISBN
9780525556572 (hardcover)
0525556575 (hardcover)
0525556575 (hardcover)
Published
New York, New York : Crash Course Books, 2025.
Copyright
©2025
Language
English
Description
198 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 22 cm
Call Number
RA644.T7 G824 2025
Summary
"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." -- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-198).
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Table of Contents
Introduction : Gregory and Stokes
Lakka
Cowboys and assassins
Look at our railroads
That wealth never warded off
Whipped away
Tiger got to hunt
The flattering malady
The bacillus
Not a person
A study in tuberculin
Trepidation and hope
The cure
Where the cure is not
Marco. Polo.
Dr. Girum
Henry
"Beat me later"
Superbug
Vicious cycles
Hail Mary
Like magic
Virtuous cycles
The cause and the cure
Postscript.
Lakka
Cowboys and assassins
Look at our railroads
That wealth never warded off
Whipped away
Tiger got to hunt
The flattering malady
The bacillus
Not a person
A study in tuberculin
Trepidation and hope
The cure
Where the cure is not
Marco. Polo.
Dr. Girum
Henry
"Beat me later"
Superbug
Vicious cycles
Hail Mary
Like magic
Virtuous cycles
The cause and the cure
Postscript.