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Everything is tuberculosis : the history and persistence of our deadliest infection / John Green.
Van Pelt Library RA644.T7 G74 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Green, John, 1977- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reider, Henry--Health.
- Reider, Henry.
- Tuberculosis.
- Tuberculosis--Social aspects.
- Tuberculosis--History.
- Sierra Leone--Social conditions.
- Sierra Leone.
- Social history.
- Tuberculosis, Pulmonary.
- Tuberculosis, Pulmonary--history.
- Social Conditions.
- social history.
- Tuberculosis--Treatment--History.
- Medicine--History.
- Medicine.
- History of Medicine.
- history of medicine.
- Tuberculosis--Treatment.
- Medical Subjects:
- Tuberculosis, Pulmonary.
- Tuberculosis, Pulmonary--history.
- Social Conditions.
- Sierra Leone.
- History of Medicine.
- Genre:
- History
- Informational works.
- Physical Description:
- 198 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
- Other Title:
- History and persistence of our deadliest infection
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Crash Course Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2025.
- Summary:
- "In 2019, John Green met Henry, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone while traveling with Partners in Health. 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 and dynamic advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, treatable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing 1.5 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780525556572
- 0525556575
- OCLC:
- 1463707537
- Publisher Number:
- 90101851237
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