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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green
349 reviews
hopeful
informative
reflective
tense
medium-paced
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Graphic: Medical content
Moderate: Death
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
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Graphic: Medical content
Moderate: Death
informative
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reflective
medium-paced
brilliant, bursting with life & hope
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Graphic: Death, Medical content, Medical trauma
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Green briefly addresses how absurd it is that his writing career led him to this book in particular at some point in this work. He has a very keen way of keeping the science of things, but laying the information out in such a way that it’s accessible to laypeople. He made some really fascinating inferences about TB and how chronic conditions often go untreated because of social boundaries society places on them. Tying the academic side of things with Henry’s story gave the book a through line. Henry’s life and perspective also allows one to feel hope regarding a subject that feels particularly hopeless. Overall, an informative and inspiring read.
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Moderate: Ableism, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Racism, Terminal illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, Colonisation, Classism
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Fuck J&J and all these rich, selfish people.
Henry, his mom, and Dr Girum deserves all the good in the world.
Also cant believe TB is the reason why lead makeup and rouge was so popular and is why makeup is the way it is today.
Henry, his mom, and Dr Girum deserves all the good in the world.
Also cant believe TB is the reason why lead makeup and rouge was so popular and is why makeup is the way it is today.
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Graphic: Death, Racism
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
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Moderate: Death, Medical content, Grief
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
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Graphic: Ableism, Confinement, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Colonisation, War, Pandemic/Epidemic
emotional
hopeful
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inspiring
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Engaging and very moving. Brings awareness to the TB pandemic and why this affects everyone. Very relevant during the current political circumstances in the U.S.
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Moderate: Death
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informative
inspiring
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🦠 Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green 🦠
MY RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Tuberculosis has haunted humanity for thousands of years—once romanticized, now recognized as a disease rooted in poverty and injustice. In 2019, author John Green met Henry Reider, a young TB patient in Sierra Leone, sparking a deep friendship and a commitment to advocacy. In Everything Is Tuberculosis, Green shares Henry’s story alongside the history and future of one of the world’s deadliest—but curable—diseases.
This book was great! I listened to the audiobook and I highly recommend doing the same. Hearing this narrated by John Green really made the story come through and I think made this a much more emotional book. John Green talked a lot about what leads to disease and widespread treatment and stigma. This book talked about about how diseases, including those that are controllable, become diseases of poverty, and how this cycle continues through issues like having no funding for food in hospitals, or requiring treatment be overseen by professionals causing people to leave their jobs, furthering spread in low-income places. John Green also talked about the romanticization of disease in white people and the contribution to beauty standards that this has, and how this shifts when diseases no longer impact mostly white people. He also talked about how the medical system and society act as though societal issues causing sickness and symptoms are painted as individual issues, dehumanizing patients and causing people to not value survival of those who are sick, and to not value their lives, which impacts allocation of global public health resources.
While none of the information in this book was new to me, he described it in a very accessible way, and really humanized it through talking about individuals, especially Henry, and their stories. If only I get the anti-vaxxers to read this one and hear a bit more about public health and spread of diseases and what we can do to help mitigate in a system that doesn’t value healing for those who are marginalized.
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Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Genocide, Racism, Terminal illness, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic
emotional
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sad
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Moderate: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, Terminal illness, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Colonisation, War, Pandemic/Epidemic