technicat@bookwyrm.social hat Everything Is Tuberculosis von John Green besprochen
TB is among us
I found this fascinating, partly from personal interest as my grandfather specialized in tuberculosis (and in fact went back to China to help the people there, though I suspect part of that was because back then the profession here wasn't so welcoming to Asian Americans but that's another story...), also because, something I learned from this book, TB is still a thing, a really big thing, so a theme of this book is how that can be compared to how we banged out covid vaccines in record time. It's not a very technical book, more pondering about public policy, reminiscent of Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains, which this author cites as a major influence in a very good afterword including other reading, if you want to dig deeper, and we probably should.
I found this fascinating, partly from personal interest as my grandfather specialized in tuberculosis (and in fact went back to China to help the people there, though I suspect part of that was because back then the profession here wasn't so welcoming to Asian Americans but that's another story...), also because, something I learned from this book, TB is still a thing, a really big thing, so a theme of this book is how that can be compared to how we banged out covid vaccines in record time. It's not a very technical book, more pondering about public policy, reminiscent of Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains, which this author cites as a major influence in a very good afterword including other reading, if you want to dig deeper, and we probably should.
