Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection - Paperback

John Green traces tuberculosis from the sanatoriums of the Victorian era to the drug-resistant strains of today. A history of how one infection shaped medicine, art, and modern ideas of contagion.

This is not epidemiology dressed as narrative. Green's book is a genuine cultural history. TB killed Keats and the Brontës and Chopin. It built the hospital as an institution. It invented the X-ray. It created the American sanatorium cult. Every major moment in TB's arc tells you something true about how we've lived and died.

Medical historians and public health faculty read this for the argument, not the facts. It makes clear why TB never went away and why it matters that we stop forgetting about it. Assign to students who think antibiotics solved everything.

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- Paperback
- Medical history, infectious disease, public health