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

“If TB became a problem in the rich world, attention and resources would rain down upon the illness until it ceased to be a problem for the rich,, powerful, and able-bodied.”

“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.”

“These illness narratives are often not just a strategy for conceptualizing the pain of others, but also a way of reassuring ourselves that we’ll never feel that pain.”