Everything Is Tuberculosis

The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

von John Green

198 Seiten, Hardcover

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Instant #1 New York Times bestseller! ¿ #1 Washington Post bestseller! ¿ #1 Indie Bestseller! ¿ USA Today Bestseller!'Earnest and empathetic.' - New York TimesTuberculosis 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, 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.

• Themen: Ratgeber Familie und Gesundheit Ratgeber, Sachbuch Der menschliche Körper
• ISBN: 9781529961423
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.03.2025
• Größe: 238 x 156 mm
• Verlag: Random House UK Ltd