Curtis’s Reviews > Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection > Status Update

Sherlock Holmes uses reasoning and evidence to reach rigorous conclusions about causes of death because tuberculosis.

Just read the section on stigma and disease, and it feels like Green has a personal axe to grind or something. His prose makes it sound like any acknowledgment of a patient’s role in getting sick is a moral judgment. I’m interested to see if this comes up again, and if he tempers this position at all.

“He would wish for death, but then wish for life, because ‘death would destroy even those pains which are better than nothing.’”

“Breath is life — respiration is the most visible and irrefutable sign that we are still here. To inspire is to breathe in; to expire is to breathe all the way out.”