The Black Angels : the untold story of the nurses who helped cure tuberculosis. / Maria Smilios.

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"During those dark pre-antibiotic days, when tuberculosis killed one in seven people, white nurses at Sea View, New York's largest municipal hospital, began quitting. Desperate to avert a public health crisis, city officials summoned Black southern nurses, luring them with promises of good pay, a ca...

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Main Author: Smilios, Maria (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2023]
Subjects:
Seaview Hospital (Staten Island, New York, N.Y.)
African American nurses > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Nurses > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Tuberculosis > Patients > New York (State) > New York.
Epidemics > New York (State) > Biography.
African Americans.
Nursing.
Tuberculosis.
Black or African American.
Nurses.
African American.
Nursing (health science)
African American nurses.
Tuberculosis > Patients.
New York (State) > New York.
Biography.
Biographies.
Genre:
Biography.
Biographies.
Physical Description:xx, 428 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Variant Title:
Untold story of the nurses who helped cure tuberculosis
Format: Book

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Call Number: RT83.5 .S65 2023
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