Everything Is Tuberculosis - Moé for Solarpunk Books

Hardcover, 208 pages

English language

Published March 18, 2025 by Penguin Young Readers Group.

ISBN:: 978-0-525-42605-9
Audible ASIN:: B0DK2G4D48
Goodreads:: 220341389

(1 review)

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 Henry’s story, woven through with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world and how our choices will shape the …

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 Henry’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.

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Outwatered Fish reviewed Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green

An Emotional Powerhouse, a Call to Arms and a half.

5 stars

This is an emotionally powerful book about the history of a perception of a disease, different parts where it impacted history, and how the western countries refused to bat an eye at it the instant it stopped directly impacting them, except where it could gain them a profit. John Green interweaves these subjects masterfully with the story of a patient the author personally met, in a way that did bring me to tears several times.

I cannot recommend this book enough. Go get it, it is worth it.

Favourite tidbit (heavily paraphrased): "DAMNNNNNN SHAWTY DO BE COUGHING DIFFERENT THO 🥵 🥵 🥵 🥵 🥵 🥵 🥵 😳😳😳😏" -- White People in the 1800s.