Tuberculosis has been entwined with hu-manity 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, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. John be-came 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 inequi-ties that allow this curable, preventable infec-tious 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.
| ISBN: | 9781529961447 |
| Publication date: | 17th March 2026 |
| Author: | John Green |
| Publisher: | Ebury Press an imprint of Ebury Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 198 pages |
| Genres: |
Health, illness and addiction: social aspects Social and cultural history History: plagues, diseases, famines Popular medicine and health: the human body History of science Popular Science |
Tuberculosis has been entwined with hu-manity 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, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. John be-came 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 inequi-ties that allow this curable, preventable infec-tious 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.
Everything Is Tuberculosis features in the following genres: Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Social and cultural history, History: plagues, diseases, famines, Popular medicine and health: the human body, History of science, Popular Science
Everything Is Tuberculosis is available in Paperback, Hardback
Everything Is Tuberculosis was written by John Green and published by Ebury Press an imprint of Ebury Publishing
Everything Is Tuberculosis has 198 pages
£10.79