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

 
　　曾榮獲普立茲獎、獲《時代》雜誌選為百大最具影響力人物的暢銷作家約翰‧葛林（John Green），感動人心的小說作品包括《尋找阿拉斯加》、《生命中的美好缺憾》。而非虛構的五星Podcast選集《人類事評論》，同樣展現了非凡的說故事能力，不僅橫掃各大暢銷排行榜，也在全球最大書評網站Goodreads上被票選為年度最佳書籍。約翰‧葛林為何選擇接續出版一本與結核病有關的書呢？如書中所描述的，2019 年在西非獅子山共和國的拉卡政府醫院（Lakka Government Hospital），作者遇見了一位名叫亨利·瑞德（Henry Reider）的男孩，他有著燦爛的笑容、細瘦的雙腿，是一名年輕的結核病患者。作者以其出色動人的文筆，記錄下他與亨利之間的友誼，更宏觀地推展至結核病史，將全球醫療不平等的殘酷事實呈現在讀者眼前。
 
　　結核病，這個在人類史上已存在逾千年的疾病，曾被浪漫化地被稱為詩人之病，如今則是貧窮的象徵。生活在醫療進步國家的讀者，恐怕難以想像這種可治癒、可預防的傳染病，如今仍在貧困地區蔓延，每年無情地奪走超過上百萬條生命。身兼全球健康非營利組織Partners In Health董事會成員的約翰‧葛林，曾在聯合國「終結結核病高階會議」（United Nations High-Level Meeting on the Fight toEnd Tuberculosis）上就這一議題發表演說，以期喚起世人的注意。現在他希望藉由文字和這本書的出版，感召更多人為人類的未來做出選擇、為終止結核病奮鬥，共同關注全球醫療不平等底層的人道議題。(文/博客來編譯)

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John Green, award-winning author and passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease.

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Tuberculosis has been entwined with hu­manity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is seen as a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it.

In 2019, author John Green met Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. 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 advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequi­ties that allow this curable, preventable infec­tious disease to also be the deadliest, killing over a 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.

John Green is the award-winning, #1 bestselling author of books including Looking for Alaska, The Fault in Our Stars, Turtles All the Way Down, and The Anthropocene Reviewed. With his brother, Hank, John has co-created many online video projects, including Vlogbrothers, the educational channel Crash Course and an annual livestreamed fundraiser called the Project for Awesome (P4A). John serves on the Board of Trustees for global health nonprofit Partners in Health and, in partnership with PiH and the Nerdfighter community around Vlogbrothers video, has raised over ＄30 million dollars to tackle maternal mortality in Sierra Leone. In 2023, John spoke at the United Nations calling for the eradication of tuberculosis cases in the next decade.

John lives with his family in Indianapolis, Indiana. You can visit him online at johngreenbooks.com and find out more about the fight against tuberculosis at tbfighters.org.