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“He loved that word. Who wouldn't? "Encouraged." Like courage is something we rouse ourselves and others into.”
― Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
― Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
“I want to pause here to note a defining feature of humans, which is that we like to know why things happen, especially when really bad things happen. And if a reason is not immediately apparent, we will find one.”
― Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
― Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
“I am an author, and I, for one, am deeply offended by the notion that my "waywardness, peevishness, Irascibility, misanthropy, and murky passions" are caused by a "derangement of bodily health," even as I am impressed by a nineteenth-century magazine's ability to absolutely nail my personality.”
― Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
― Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
“...somehow, we always seem to blame the patient for noncompliance, rather than blaming the structures of the social order that make compliance more difficult.”
― Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
― Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
“But survival is not primarily an act of individual will, of course. It's an act of collective will.”
― Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
― Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
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Catherine’s 2025 Year in Books
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