Everything is Tuberculosis




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ClassGraphic Tuberculosis is mankind’s oldest and still today our most deadly communicable disease. In this study group, we will read and discuss Everything is Tuberculosis, The History and Persistence of our Deadliest Infection, by John Green (Crash Course Books, 2025). The author skillfully weaves together the story of Henry Reider, a young TB patient in Sierra Leone, with scientific and social histories of how TB has shaped our world. By one estimate TB has killed one in seven of all the people who ever lived. John Keats, all three Bronte sisters, Kafka, Chekhov, Robert Louis Stevenson, Simon Bolivar, James Monroe, Doc Holliday, George Orwell, and Eleanor Roosevelt all died from the disease. This story is about why it took us until the 1950s to find the cure, and why in the decades since we have allowed more than 150 million people around the world to die of the disease. We will supplement this very readable book with clips from a short, engaging PBS American Experience documentary, The Forgotten Plague, Tuberculosis in America.
 

Class Details

4 Session(s)
Weekly - Thu

Location
500 Davis Center

Instructor
Multiple

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$0.00

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Date(s) Class Days Times Location Instructor(s)
7/9/2026 - 7/30/2026 Weekly - Thu 09:45 AM - 11:45 AM Evanston, 500 Davis Center  Map Philip Steptoe  ; Mary Hummel 

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