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

by John Green

“Nothing is so privileged as thinking history belongs to the past.”

Treating disease—whether through herbs or magic or drugs—is unnatural. No other animals do it, at least not with anything approaching our sophistication. Hospitals are unnatural, as are novels and saxophones. None of us actually wants to live in a natural world.

We can do and be so much for each other—but only when we see one another in our full humanity, not as statistics or problems, but as people who deserve to be alive in the world.