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The black angels : (Record no. 105377)

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ISBN 9780349009285
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Classification number WZ 100
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Personal author Smilios, Maria
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Title The black angels :
Subtitle the untold story of the nurses who helped cure tuberculosis
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Place of publication London :
Publisher Virago Press,
Date 2023
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Physical description 428p
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Abstract During those dark pre-antibiotic days, when tuberculosis killed 1 in 7 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'.<br/><br/>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 vital work in the race for the cure for tuberculosis and subsequently helping to find it 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 centre of this riveting story celebrating their legacy and spirit of survival.
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Subject term Black history
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Subject term Nursing history
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Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Home library Current library Shelving location Date acquired Source of acquisition Cost, normal purchase price Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Cost, replacement price Price effective from Koha item type
    National Library of Medicine     Stenhouse Library (Kingston Hospital) Stenhouse Library (Kingston Hospital) Shelves 08/10/2024 Tomlinsons 12.99   WZ 100 ST00585 24/10/2024 12.99 08/10/2024 Book