Everything Is Tuberculosis: Disease, Injustice, and the Cost of Looking Away
Everything Is Tuberculosis : Disease, Injustice, and the Cost of Looking Away Title: Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection Author: John Green Genres: Nonfiction / history / science / medicine / global health Publication year: 2025 Length: 198 pages Spoiler note: Spoiler-free Personal rating: 3.75 stars Tuberculosis is both an ancient disease and a thoroughly modern scandal. Humanity has lived with it for millennia, scientists understand what causes it, and effective treatments exist. Yet tuberculosis still kills more than a million people each year. That contradiction lies at the center of John Green’s Everything Is Tuberculosis . Green’s argument is that tuberculosis cannot be understood solely as a biological event. It is caused by bacteria, but its spread, diagnosis, treatment, and lethality are profoundly shaped by human decisions. Poverty, malnutrition, overcrowded housing, stigma, colonialism, political neglect, inacc...