Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

The drugs are where the disease is not,” Dr. Mugyenyi said. “And where is the disease? The disease is where the drugs are not.”

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, but the world is inherently more complex than the narratives we impose upon it, just as the

reality of experience is inherently more complex than the language we use to describe that reality.

be at the mercy of the multiplication of those infinitesimally small creatures, it is also consoling to hope that Science will not always remain powerless before such enemies.” Pasteur acknowledged

But survival is not primarily an act of individual will, of course. It’s an act of collective will.

Mere despair never tells the whole human story, as much as despair would like to insist otherwise. Hopelessness has the insidious talent of explaining everything:

Mere despair never tells the whole human story, as much as despair would like to insist otherwise. Hopelessness has the insidious talent of explaining everything: the reason X or Y sucks is that everything sucks, the reason you’re miserable is because misery is the correct response to the world as we find it, and so on. I am prone to despair, and so I know its powerful voice; it just doesn’t happen to

I am prone to despair, and so I know its powerful voice; it just doesn’t happen to