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5 feb 2024 · Black nurses played a pivotal role in curing tuberculosis and caring for patients on Staten Island, yet their story is not well known. Highlighting 7 Black Angels who helped cure TB.
In The black angels, we meet Edna, Missouria, and Virginia—the only angel still alive today—and learn about the vital roles they played not only in helping find the backbone of TB treatment still used today (isoniazid) but also in the daily acts of mercy they practiced when there was no cure.
19 set 2023 · 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.
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19 set 2023 · THE BLACK ANGELS: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis, by Maria Smilios. In 1929, white nurses began deserting Staten Island’s Sea View Hospital, a tuberculosis facility...
17 ott 2023 · The Heroic Black Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis. Maria Smilios’ new book The Black Angels chronicles the history of the nurses of Sea View Hospital and the cure for tuberculosis. An...
A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remarkable true story of the Black nurses who helped cure tuberculosis, one of the world's deadliest plagues, told alongside the often strange chronicle of the cure's discovery. 'It's everything that I love.
- Maria Smilios
25 ott 2023 · But only now, with the publication of Maria Smilios’ new book, The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis, is a crucial part of Sea View’s history being told: the role of Black nurses in staffing an underfunded, overcrowded hospital and likely helping to save hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives.
