The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis

by Maria Smilios

Book Overview

New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nursing shortage.

In the pre-antibiotic days when tuber­culosis stirred people's darkest fears, killing one in seven, white nurses at Sea View, New York's largest municipal hospital, began quitting en masse. 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593544927
• ISBN13: 9780593544921
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.3"