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Everything Is Tuberculosis

The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

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Narrator John Green

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Length 5 hours 36 minutes
Language English
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Summary

Brought to you by Penguin.Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it.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 Henryโ€™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.ยฉ John Green 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025

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Author:

Narrator:
John Green

ISBN:
9781529962475

Length:
5 hours 36 minutes

Language:
English

Publisher:
Ebury Publishing

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Edition:
Unabridged

Libro.fm rank:
#728 Overall

Genre rank:
#11 in Health

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Earnest and empathetic Everything Is Tuberculosis doesnโ€™t so much tell you the story of tuberculosis, as much as it gently holds your hand and parts the curtains into one of the darkest, most bizarre, and frustrating series of decisions in world history with the other... A quintessential John Green book: one that grapples with the issue of mortality and our conflicting desires to both help and hurt one another, all within the backdrop of the coming of age of a young man Green uses the stories of real people to turn overwhelming problems into something personal and understandable. This highly readable call to action could not be more timely Henryโ€™s story is hopeful and heartbreaking; readers will be rooting for him and his family the whole way through Green writes expertly of the illnessโ€™s history, causes (malnutrition, poverty, bad sanitation, etc.), and cureโ€ฆ Insightful and extremely well and clearly written, Everything Is Tuberculosis makes what might be inaccessible accessible In these challenging times, the global health community is fortunate to count on Green and his inspiring advocacy A story of hope and tragedy that feels terribly relevant at a time when the global healthcare system is coming under attack. An exceptional combination of memoir, medical history and cultural analysisโ€ฆ. Memorably probes the intersections of medicine and human emotion Expand reviews
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