Avery
I'd never read anything by John Green but had this recommended by a few people and was glad I took a look. I enjoyed many of the anecdotes and quotes that were used as analogies and motifs throughout the book.
It's a relatively quick and easy read, apart from a few emotional stories -- the author focuses on some specific people in an attempt to humanize the sufferers of TB. This becomes a fairly central theme, pushing to neither romanticize nor stigmatize the disease, both of which have happened plenty in its very long (I learned) history.
I recently read Abundance by Klein & Thompson, another popular non-fiction book this year, and found Everything Is Tuberculosis to be an interesting complement to it. Important to remember that achieving the vision of abundance in the "developed" world doesn't automatically mean those problems get solved everywhere.
I'd never read anything by John Green but had this recommended by a few people and was glad I took a look. I enjoyed many of the anecdotes and quotes that were used as analogies and motifs throughout the book.
It's a relatively quick and easy read, apart from a few emotional stories -- the author focuses on some specific people in an attempt to humanize the sufferers of TB. This becomes a fairly central theme, pushing to neither romanticize nor stigmatize the disease, both of which have happened plenty in its very long (I learned) history.
I recently read Abundance by Klein & Thompson, another popular non-fiction book this year, and found Everything Is Tuberculosis to be an interesting complement to it. Important to remember that achieving the vision of abundance in the "developed" world doesn't automatically mean those problems get solved everywhere.