About the Book & Author
John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story
illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest disease.
Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a
malady of poets, today tuberculosis is a disease of poverty that walks the trails
of injustice and inequity we blazed for it.
In 2019, John Green met Henry, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital
in Sierra Leone while traveling with Partners in Health. 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 and dynamic advocate for increased
access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this
curable, treatable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing 1.5 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.
How Do I Get the Book?
Students: Copies are available for purchase at the USA Bookstore and at your local bookstore. Copies are available for loan at the University Library.
Students with Disabilities: If you are a student with a documented disability and wish to request this text in an alternate format, please contact Educational Accessibility and Disability Resources (CEADR) at (251) 460-7212. No alternate format copies will be supplied without proper documentation.
Faculty and Staff: If you are interested in participating in this program or reviewing the text, please email commonread@southalabama.edu.