Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green Summary
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John Green's bestseller unmasks tuberculosis as humanity's deadliest infection - not just a medical challenge but a disease of inequality. Praised by The Lancet's Madhukar Pai, this heartbreaking yet hopeful exploration has already sparked policy changes and improved treatment access worldwide.
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The Forgotten Pandemic Still Among Us
Imagine a disease so devastating it has claimed over a billion lives in two centuries-approximately one-seventh of all humans who have ever lived. Now imagine we've had the tools to prevent these deaths for decades, yet still allow over a million people to die from it annually. This is tuberculosis-a disease that kills more people than malaria, typhoid, and war combined. In 1804, even James Watt, the genius behind the Industrial Revolution, watched helplessly as his son Gregory died from "consumption." A century later, my great-uncle Stokes met the same fate in an Asheville sanatorium. The tragedy? Unlike in Watt's time, we now possess the knowledge and medicine to prevent these deaths. As Ugandan physician Dr. Peter Mugyenyi observed about similar lifesaving medications: "The drugs are where the disease is not. And the disease is where the drugs are not." TB isn't just a bacterial infection; it's both a form and expression of injustice, following "the trails of inequity that we blazed for it."
Henry's Story and TB's Hidden Hand in History
The Beautiful Death and Its Transformation to Bacterial Reality
The Double Burden: Disease, Stigma, and Inequality
From Sanatoria to Antibiotics: The Evolution of Treatment
The Virtuous Cycle of Compassion
Henry's Triumph and the Path Forward
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