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

“We love in between what we choose and what is chosen for us”

Ugh drug patents

All of this talk about the stigma reminds me of HIV and AIDS

There’s someone poetic about bacteria being small things that carve out the whole

What a sly move to include a line about Koch’s affair

Thinking about race and TB makes me wonder what the paleness looks like on darker skin.

Learning something new that people associated tuberculosis with creativity

I don’t think people choose to be constipated

I appreciate that we didn’t leave Henry’s story behind in an earlier chapter but I wonder how effective it is for the whole cause to focus on this one person’s story. Henry does seem to still be doing well according to my short Google search

I didn’t know that I needed to be scared about actively having tuberculosis, but new fear I guess