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Green described the book as "a history of human responses to tuberculosis intertwined with a contemporary story of one person's experience". [2] The contemporary story is largely that of Henry, a Sierra Leonean boy who shares Green's son's name. [1] He announced the book's title, Everything Is Tuberculosis, on October 22, 2024. [6]
‘Everything Is Tuberculosis’ will be published by Crash Course Books, an imprint from the popular Youtube Channel run by Green and his brother Hank
Rojas had tuberculosis when he painted this. Here he depicts the social aspect of the disease, and its relation with Living conditions at the close of the 19th century. The history of tuberculosis encompasses the origins of the disease, tuberculosis (TB) through to the vaccines and treatments methods developed to contain and mitigate its impact.
The book contrasts the viewpoints and metaphors associated with each disease. At one point, tuberculosis was seen as a creative disease, leading to healthy people wanting to look as if they were ill with the disease. However, lack of improvement from tuberculosis was usually seen as lack of passion in the individual.
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World (2003) is a non-fiction, biographical work by American writer Tracy Kidder.The book traces the life of physician and anthropologist Paul Farmer with particular focus on his work fighting tuberculosis in Haiti, Peru and Russia.
Vivien Leigh, who played Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone with the Wind," died in 1967 at age 53 from tuberculosis. She also starred in "A Streetcar Named Desire" with Marlon Brando.
A disease characterized by a hardening of the brain tissues precipitated by the cyberization process. It is described as being that century's cancer or tuberculosis. Cyberbrain sclerosis is described as being extremely rare, enough so that it doesn't deter most people from being cyberized, but it is incurable once diagnosed. Ghost sickness
The poet John Keats, here depicted by William Hilton c. 1822, died of tuberculosis aged 25.. Tuberculosis, known variously as consumption, phthisis, and the great white plague, was long thought to be associated with poetic and artistic qualities in its sufferers, and was also known as "the romantic disease". [2]