Everything is tuberculosis : the history and persistence of our deadliest infection / John Green.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Green, John, 1977- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reider, Henry--Health.

Tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis--Social aspects.

Tuberculosis--History.

Sierra Leone--Social conditions.

Genre:

Informational works.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

198 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Crash Course Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-198).

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Gift of the Robert J. & Thelma E. Gill book fund.

ISBN:

9780525556572

0525556575

OCLC:

1463707537