Reviews tagging 'Death'

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green

354 reviews

dreamerace's review against another edition

4.5

informative reflective fast-paced

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Definitely a must read for anyone interested in public health, medicine, or the sociological relationship between history, human perception, and the costs of treating disease.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Grief, Medical trauma

zelle10orio's review against another edition

2.0

fast-paced

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Topic is interesting but the book format is giving white mans special interest and just couldn’t get with that. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Racism

ximajs's review against another edition

4.0

emotional hopeful informative inspiring

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This book says more about society than medicine, but that may just be the biggest challenge when looking at treating tuberculosis in the world today. "The disease is where the cure is not, and the cure is where the disease is not." (Paraphrased)
I read the audiobook version, but did also check out the physical book to check if there were things I missed. I'd recommend everyone who's not familiar with Henry Reider mentioned throughout the book to check out the physical or digital edition of the book, to see how much he changed in a few years. Alternatively you could find the Vlogbrother video titled "Henry" on Youtube.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death

geodegator's review against another edition

4.5

hopeful informative medium-paced

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I loved Mountains Beyond Mountains when I read it a few years ago for a college class, and this was a fantastic addition to literature about a problem that has been inferred to be unsolvable by so many for so long. The prospects of the continuation of systemic disease are continuing to decline, and I am grateful to be able to learn more about the implications of our social structure on health.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Terminal illness, Medical content

addivf's review against another edition

5.0

hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Body horror, Cancer, Death, Drug use, Physical abuse, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Ableism, Cancer, Confinement, Eating disorder, Violence, War

savyelizabeth's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

aprilb_reads's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Abandonment, Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Ableism, Racism, Colonisation, Classism

countessofderby's review against another edition

3.5

informative reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness

gxuosi's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

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i have pthisiophobia, or the pathological fear of tuberculosis—but not in the sense that i’m terrorized of idea that i will contract it. rather in the sense that i am hyperfocused on keeping track of tuberculosis; like someone else might obsessively check the weather. i’m not sure where my phobia comes from. i couldn’t tell you the day i realized tuberculosis existed or the day when i realized it wasn’t gone. i grew up near a sanatorium and my great grandfather eventually died from tuberculosis, none of which seems to have actually caused my phobia. so i can’t explain it in any meaningful way. ultimately, this all ends with me spending cumulative days tracking outbreaks, checking generic production and emergent drug development statuses, and watching in abject horror as we continue to CHOOSE to let people die. and all of this before covid 19 was identified. so color me surprised when an author i loathed (sorry) for no inherent reason (except the anne frank house kiss) wrote a book about something so important to me that no one else in my life really understands. because as an american, absolutely none of my friends knew before i told them that tuberculosis hadn’t actually been cured. this book is everything to me and yet nothing i didn’t already know. but i know what it’s going to mean for anyone who has lived with the privilege of thinking tuberculosis is gone. so thank you john green for writing a bestselling romance novel where they inexplicably kiss in the anne frank house, because that ended up making you write this with your very well known name plastered right on the front. and as you know, your name is a megaphone.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Terminal illness, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Animal death, Cancer, Child death, Death, Genocide, Slavery, Blood, Colonisation

Minor: Addiction, Infidelity, Mental illness, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Excrement, Vomit, Abandonment, War

amberlfaris's review against another edition

4.5

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Abandonment

Moderate: Mental illness, Slavery, Violence, War