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

“History is often imagined as a series of events, unfolding one after the other like a sequence of falling dominoes. But most human experiences are processes, not events . . . Similarly, much of what some imagine as dichotomous turns out to be spectral . . . We love a narrative of the great individual whose life is shot through with major events and who turns out to be either a villain or a hero…” (77-78)