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- Condition
- Subject
- The Black Angels HARDCOVER
- Original Language
- English
- Unit Quantity
- 1
- ISBN
- 0593544927
- Book Title
- Black Angels : the Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.4 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Medical, History, Social Science
- Topic
- Women, Public Health, Infectious Diseases, History, Nursing / General, African American, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
- Item Width
- 6.2 in
- Item Weight
- 23.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 448 Pages
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New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remarkable true story of the Black nurses who helped cure one of the world's deadliest plagues: tuberculosis. 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 career, and an escape from the strictures of Jim Crow. But after arriving, they found themselves on an isolated hilltop in the remote borough of Staten Island, yet again confronting racism and consigned to a woefully understaffed facility, dubbed "the pest house" where "no one left alive." Spanning the Great Depression and moving through World War II and beyond, this story follows the intrepid young women, the "Black Angels," who, for twenty years, risked their lives working under dreadful conditions while caring for the city's poorest--1,800 souls languishing in wards, waiting to die or become "guinea pigs" for experimental (often deadly) drugs. Yet despite their major role in desegregating the NYC hospital system--and regardless of their vital work in helping to find the cure for tuberculosis at Sea View--these nurses were completely erased from history. The Black Angels recovers the voices of these extraordinary women and puts them at the center of this riveting story celebrating their legacy and spirit of survival.
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0593544927
ISBN-13
9780593544921
eBay Product ID (ePID)
26058810560
Product Key Features
Book Title
Black Angels : the Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Women, Public Health, Infectious Diseases, History, Nursing / General, African American, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year
2023
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Medical, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Rt83.5.S65 2023
Reviews
"I've never read anything like The Black Angels , a tale of medical horror and heroism that recalls The Hot Zone as much as it does Hidden Figures . Smilios plunges the reader into the festering tuberculosis wards of 1930s New York, where death was airborne, inevitable--until a few brave nurses changed the lives of millions. This is extraordinary nonfiction." --Jason Fagone, author of The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies "Immensely rewarding...[A] confluence of histories, encompassing public health, urban development, race, class, and social upheaval...[Smilios] blends all of the threads she followed into a big blistering narrative that takes readers into the lives of an exceptional group of individuals whose personal stories are as compelling as the disease they confronted was deadly. Informative, enthralling, and sometimes appalling, this is American history at its best." -- Booklist , starred review "Edna, Missouria, and Virginia answered a call for nurses and changed the world. These courageous women who desegregated hospitals and tamed an airborne killer at last receive necessary, poignant recognition in Maria Smilios' exquisitely rendered history." --Sarah Rose, author of D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II "A breathless but illuminating conquest-of-disease narrative...Vivid accounts of medical and racial progress with a mostly happy ending." -- Kirkus Reviews " The Black Angels are our guides in the story of the battle to defeat tuberculosis, a cadre of women who left the Jim Crow South and fought for their own equality in New York while nursing the great city's incurable castoffs. Decades of work with dying patients made the Black Angels into invaluable experts when test after desperate test came in the search for a cure. In richly written, capacious prose, Maria Smilios weaves medical history with personal stories of kindness and redemption in a science thriller told on a human scale." --Judy Melinek, M.D., and T. J. Mitchell, authors of Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies , and the Making of a Medical Examiner "With a detective's tenacity, Maria Smilios pays tribute to the Black Angels, that compassionate cadre of nurses whose meticulous record keeping helped buttress the clinical trials that led to a pivotal breakthrough in the treatment of tuberculosis. She weaves their personal journeys with their professional devotion to the indigent, incurable patients whose care became their cause even as they were unwelcome in most American hospitals because of their race." --A'Lelia Bundles, author of On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker, "I've never read anything like The Black Angels , a tale of medical horror and heroism that recalls The Hot Zone as much as it does Hidden Figures . Smilios plunges the reader into the festering tuberculosis wards of 1930s New York, where death was airborne, inevitable--until a few brave nurses changed the lives of millions. This is extraordinary nonfiction." --Jason Fagone, author of The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies "Edna, Missouria, and Virginia answered a call for nurses and changed the world. These courageous women who desegregated hospitals and tamed an airborne killer at last receive necessary, poignant recognition in Maria Smilios' exquisitely rendered history." --Sarah Rose, author of D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II "A breathless but illuminating conquest-of-disease narrative...Vivid accounts of medical and racial progress with a mostly happy ending." -- Kirkus Reviews " The Black Angels are our guides in the story of the battle to defeat tuberculosis, a cadre of women who left the Jim Crow South and fought for their own equality in New York while nursing the great city's incurable castoffs. Decades of work with dying patients made the Black Angels into invaluable experts when test after desperate test came in the search for a cure. In richly written, capacious prose, Maria Smilios weaves medical history with personal stories of kindness and redemption in a science thriller told on a human scale." --Judy Melinek, M.D., and T. J. Mitchell, authors of Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies , and the Making of a Medical Examiner "With a detective's tenacity, Maria Smilios pays tribute to the Black Angels, that compassionate cadre of nurses whose meticulous record keeping helped buttress the clinical trials that led to a pivotal breakthrough in the treatment of tuberculosis. She weaves their personal journeys with their professional devotion to the indigent, incurable patients whose care became their cause even as they were unwelcome in most American hospitals because of their race." --A'Lelia Bundles, author of On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker, "I've never read anything like The Black Angels , a tale of medical horror and heroism that recalls The Hot Zone as much as it does Hidden Figures . Smilios plunges the reader into the festering tuberculosis wards of 1930s New York, where death was airborne, inevitable--until a few brave nurses changed the lives of millions. This is extraordinary nonfiction." --Jason Fagone, author of The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies "Edna, Missouria, and Virginia answered a call for nurses and changed the world. These courageous women who desegregated hospitals and tamed an airborne killer at last receive necessary, poignant recognition in Maria Smilios' exquisitely rendered history." --Sarah Rose, author of D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II "With a detective's tenacity, Maria Smilios pays tribute to the Black Angels, that compassionate cadre of nurses whose meticulous record keeping helped buttress the clinical trials that led to a pivotal breakthrough in the treatment of tuberculosis. She weaves their personal journeys with their professional devotion to the indigent, incurable patients whose care became their cause even as they were unwelcome in most American hospitals because of their race." --A'Lelia Bundles, author of On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker, One of St. Louis Post-Dispatch 's 40 New Books for Fall Reading "A gripping book." -- The New York Times "I've never read anything like The Black Angels , a tale of medical horror and heroism that recalls The Hot Zone as much as it does Hidden Figures . Smilios plunges the reader into the festering tuberculosis wards of 1930s New York, where death was airborne, inevitable--until a few brave nurses changed the lives of millions. This is extraordinary nonfiction." --Jason Fagone, author of The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies "Immensely rewarding...[A] confluence of histories, encompassing public health, urban development, race, class, and social upheaval...[Smilios] blends all of the threads she followed into a big blistering narrative that takes readers into the lives of an exceptional group of individuals whose personal stories are as compelling as the disease they confronted was deadly. Informative, enthralling, and sometimes appalling, this is American history at its best." -- Booklist , starred review "[An] evocative debut...Smilios's narrative is sympathetically told in rich [...] prose...Historical fiction aficionados will want to take a look." -- Publishers Weekly "Edna, Missouria, and Virginia answered a call for nurses and changed the world. These courageous women who desegregated hospitals and tamed an airborne killer at last receive necessary, poignant recognition in Maria Smilios' exquisitely rendered history." --Sarah Rose, author of D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II "A breathless but illuminating conquest-of-disease narrative...Vivid accounts of medical and racial progress with a mostly happy ending." -- Kirkus Reviews "Extraordinary...Written with an astute grasp of the medical facts surrounding TB, [the] book eloquently highlights the humanity of the nurses who were recruited from the segregated South to provide care for people with TB in the hospital when nobody else would...Smilios is a rare combination of rigorous scientist and an exquisite writer...[A] must-read for anyone in the TB field but also for those who wish to gain a better understanding of the factors that drive current health disparities." -- The Lancet " The Black Angels are our guides in the story of the battle to defeat tuberculosis, a cadre of women who left the Jim Crow South and fought for their own equality in New York while nursing the great city's incurable castoffs. Decades of work with dying patients made the Black Angels into invaluable experts when test after desperate test came in the search for a cure. In richly written, capacious prose, Maria Smilios weaves medical history with personal stories of kindness and redemption in a science thriller told on a human scale." --Judy Melinek, M.D., and T. J. Mitchell, authors of Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies , and the Making of a Medical Examiner "With a detective's tenacity, Maria Smilios pays tribute to the Black Angels, that compassionate cadre of nurses whose meticulous record keeping helped buttress the clinical trials that led to a pivotal breakthrough in the treatment of tuberculosis. She weaves their personal journeys with their professional devotion to the indigent, incurable patients whose care became their cause even as they were unwelcome in most American hospitals because of their race." --A'Lelia Bundles, author of On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker
Lccn
2023-028358
Dewey Decimal
610.7308996073
Dewey Edition
23
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