Reviews tagging 'Colonisation'

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

141 reviews

aaron_246's review against another edition

4.25

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Cancer, Drug use, Genocide, Racism, War, Pandemic/Epidemic

unkempt's review against another edition

5.0

emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Racism, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Colonisation, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic

peregrinwho's review against another edition

4.75

emotional hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

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It's surreal to have followed the Vlogbrothers for so long and to have learned a lot of what's in here from John's videos as he wrote this book. To be a part of the fight. He was calling out, "Marco!" and recieving a chorus of "Polo!"'s long before these pages shouted across bookshelves everywhere. And how wonderful, that he found a way to help turn all those voices into action. How actionable these things become to others when they are no longer things, but people, with names and families and lives that can no longer be diminished into a vague clump of numbers.

(Also I don't think I knew how profoundly impactful plurals could be to me until that bit along the lines of, "she worked hard to help keep her kids healthy. Then she worked hard to keep her kid."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content

Moderate: Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Colonisation, Classism

sparky_lurkdragon's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional hopeful informative fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Racism, Colonisation

Minor: Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, War

sestout's review against another edition

4.75

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Racism, Terminal illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Mental illness, Grief, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Ableism, Cancer, Blood, Abandonment

avidreaderandgeekgirl's review against another edition

4.0

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

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      This book is quite informative, although it is a bit sad. I’m glad that 

Henry didn’t end up dying,

  as I think I would have thrown the book and sobbed. It was a bit darker than what I was looking for, but I know it’s also the facts, and I’m glad the author didn’t try to shine the turd of the situation.

     Overall, it was an interesting look at the history and potential future of TB. As well as a part memoir of the author, and a biography of Henry.
 

Narrator Rating: 5.0 stars
   The author did a great job narrating the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Chronic illness, Confinement, Mental illness, Racism, Terminal illness, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Child death, Deadnaming, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Death of parent, Colonisation, War

Minor: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Trafficking, Religious bigotry, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol

klymko's review against another edition

4.5

challenging emotional informative fast-paced

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An incredibly accessible pop science book on the biology, history, cultural understanding, and current status of tuberculosis. It is equal parts fascinating and infuriating, as it shines a light on global health inequalities. So many lives could be improved and so many problems across the world could be solved if global wealth was only spent in more equitable ways.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Racism, Terminal illness, Medical trauma, Colonisation

Moderate: Medical trauma

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Violence, War

arlingtonchamberofgay's review against another edition

5.0

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Medical content, Medical trauma

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Racism, Colonisation

Minor: Blood, War

p_sky's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Racism, Slavery, Trafficking, Colonisation, War, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic

mybookcase's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Mental illness, Racism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Abandonment, Colonisation, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic

Re. Warnings: all topics handled sensitively, responsibly and respectfully