Everything Is Tuberculosis (Signed Edition): The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
New York: Crash Course Books, 2025.
First Edition. Hardcover.
First Printing, signed by the author on tipped-in leaf.
John Green, passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world's deadliest infectious disease.
Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is seen as a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it.
In 2019, author John Green met Henry Reider, was a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. 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 advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, preventable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing over a 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.
Item #902353ISBN: 9780525426059
New in dust wrapper and protective mylar. 5-5/8 x 8-1/2", black/gray paper over boards, silver titles, decorated endpapers, 198pp, acknowledgments, further reading.
New in dust wrapper and protective mylar.
Price: $35.00