The Black Angels the untold story of the nurses who helped cure 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 ca...
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New York :
G. P. Putnam's Sons,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- A note to readers
- Remembrance of things past
- Part I : 1929-1935. The call for nurses
- The preacher's daughter
- The wager
- Harlem
- Contagion on the island
- The most magnificent institution
- The scourge
- Elke
- Vows
- The thoracoplasty
- The movement
- The breakthrough
- The riot
- Part II : 1936-1939. Ward 64
- A president's son
- What they carried
- The elixir
- "Reserved for whites"
- The fight
- The offer
- Homecoming
- Part III : 1940-1944. Dr. Edward Robitzek
- Arrivals
- The prisoner
- "Al hit paydirt!"
- "Ich Hoffe Du Wirst Krank"
- Part IV : 1944-1949. The nature of things
- "In the business of dying"
- Promise
- 188 Wheeler Avenue
- Firsts
- Dark places
- A brighter future
- The second call
- "Magic germ killer"
- New beginning
- "If one had some streptomycin"
- Part V : 1949-1952. Rumors
- Mamie
- The carnation
- On the open ward
- A funeral to rejoice
- The apparitions
- A trial of five
- "Do not say a thing"
- The wonder drug
- Breaking glass
- Epilogue.
