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Liquor & Literature PodcastBook Recommendations: Chapter 1It’s time for another xtrasode of Liquor & Literature! There are so many books out there, it’d be quite a feat if we were able to cover every single one on this podcast. We wanted to create a book recommendations episode to shout out three books that we won’t be covering as regular episodes for various reasons (i.e. not having a media adaptation or are too long of a text). So, take a listen and learn about some books that we have found fascinating and thought our listeners would as well!
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2025-11-261h 07
The Nurse Keith ShowENCORE EPISODE: The Untold Story of the Courageous Black Nurses Who Helped Cure TuberculosisOn this encore of episode 454 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Maria Smilios, the author of The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis. In the course of their conversation, Keith and Ms Smilios discuss how numerous Black nurses fled the Jim Crow south in search of opportunity in the non-segregated north, and how many ended up working at Sea View Hospital on Staten Island, a facility focused on the treatment — and to a large extent the warehousing — of thousands of TB patients.
Listeners may be shocked to...
2025-10-0149 min
Nurse Dot PodcastNurse Dot Podcast - The Untold Fight of Black Nurses Against TuberculosisIn this week's episode, Cara is joined by Maria Smilios, Author of the The Black Angels to uncover the untold story of the Black nurses at Seaview Hospital and their courageous fight against tuberculosis in the 1920s and 1930s. Together, they explore how these nurses stepped into dangerous roles abandoned by others, seizing rare professional opportunities despite facing broken promises and lower pay. The conversation dives into the erasure of their contributions from public memory, revealing how media coverage focused on doctors while the nurses’ vital work went largely unrecognized. Drawing powerful parallels to the COVID-19 pandemic, the episode hi...
2025-09-2548 min
Watch Her CookThe Black Angels: The Outbreak of TuberculosisIn the early decades of the twentieth century, tuberculosis was a shadow that loomed over New York City. Amid segregation and discrimination in American health care, a group of black nurses at New York’s Sea View Hospital rose to the occasion.
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Virginia Allen, one of the last surviving “Black Angels”, is Graduation Keynote Speaker | NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing
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2025-09-1744 min
When Science Finds a WayNow try... Our Big Shot Thanks for enjoying season two of When Science Finds a Way. While we're off the air, we recommend getting stuck into this series all about the history of vaccination and disease control. You can find the rest of the series by searching for Our Big Shot wherever you're reading this. Tuberculosis is often assumed to be a disease of the past, but it kills over 1 million people a year - a higher rate than malaria and HIV combined. In this episode we visit a forgotten and critical turning point in vaccine de...
2025-05-2129 min
ATS Breathe EasyATS Breathe Easy - TB Anywhere is TB EverywhereInternationally-recognized tuberculosis expert Philip Hopewell, MD, reflects on the impact of funding cuts on TB research and infections both in the U.S. and abroad. Eddie Qian, MD, hosts. Dr. Qian is also co-host of the ICU Ed and Todd-cast podcast.06:47 Why Kansas?09:13 How does TB infection rates compare to HIV globally?14:48 What are new guidelines for TB treatment?Resources:Updates on Treatment for Drug-Susceptible and Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: An Official ATS/CDC/ERS/IDSA Clinical Practice Guideline https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/full/10.1164/rccm.202410-2096STLearn more: WHO Gl...
2025-03-1829 min
CSI Today TalksS4; E11 - Maria Smilios & Marianne JeffreysMarch 10, 2025 - Host Terry Mares interviews both Maria Smilios and Marianne Jeffreys.
2025-03-1044 min
Reading with Rachelle: Connecting with History through Storytelling, a Book Club Podcast with Rachelle Chase06: The Black Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis with Maria SmiliosThis week, I'm joined by author Maria Smilios to discuss her award-winning book, "The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis." Smilios' trailblazing book explores the crucial role played by Black nurses in combating the tuberculosis epidemic in 1920s New York. Through meticulous research and powerful storytelling, Smilios brings to life the challenges these nurses faced, from systemic racism to dangerous working conditions, as they risked their lives to care for tuberculosis patients, advance groundbreaking medical trials, and help cure tuberculosis. Connect with Maria:https://www.mariasmilios.com/Get the...
2024-12-1145 min
PulmPEEPs87. Live from CHEST 2024 – Black Angels with Maria SmiliosHere at Pulm PEEPs we have always loved the CHEST Annual Meetings. We have enjoyed learning at them, reuniting with and meeting colleagues, and having conference specific episodes the past two years. This year, we had the opportunity to podcast live at CHEST 2024 and it was a real thrill! We talked to Maria Smilios about her wonderful book The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis. . The book covers a range of fascinating topics including how treatments for tuberculosis were developed, the successes and plights of Black nurses working in this endeavor, an exploration o...
2024-10-0844 minPulmPEEPs87. Live from CHEST 2024 – Black Angels with Maria SmiliosHere at Pulm PEEPs we have always loved the CHEST Annual Meetings. We have enjoyed learning at them, reuniting with and meeting colleagues, and having conference specific episodes the past two years. This year, we had the opportunity to podcast live at CHEST 2024 and it was a real thrill! We talked to Maria Smilios about her wonderful book The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis. . The book covers a range of fascinating topics including how treatments for tuberculosis were developed, the successes and plights of Black nurses working in this endeavor, an exploration o...
2024-10-0844 min
Hidden Half Book Review: from the Remedial Herstory ProjectE7 The Black Angels, September 2024Join us this month as we discuss our September read, The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis by Maria Smilios. Hosts Victoria and Katherine will unpack the challenges of science narratives, the various shapes of racism in 20th C America and our love of medical horror. Whether you’ve had a chance to pick up this excellent book yet, or are waiting for it to arrive, listen along with us!
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2024-09-2632 min
This Podcast Will Kill YouSpecial Episode: Maria Smilios & The Black AngelsIn the pre-antibiotic era, tuberculosis was one of the biggest killers humanity ever faced. The specter of the ‘great white plague’ hung over towns and cities across the world, cities like New York whose population boom in the early 20th century paved the way for this deadly disease to spread throughout crowded tenements. As tuberculosis rates in NYC reached a breaking point, city officials sought to solve the problem by establishing a sanatorium on Staten Island. But they quickly ran into an issue - who would be willing to work there, exposing themselves to this untreatable deadly disease? In The B...
2024-08-2759 min
Morbidly Curious Book Club PodcastARCHIVES: "The Black Angels" with the author Maria SmiliosJoin the Morbidly Curious Book Club Today: https://www.morbidlycuriousbookclub.com/ Welcome to the Archives bonus episodes!In 2024, I launched this podcast to delve deeper into our book club's nonfiction selections by engaging directly with the authors—the experts behind these compelling works. Over the years, our club has explored some exceptional books, and today, I am thrilled to spotlight one of our most acclaimed reads: "THE BLACK ANGELS: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis" by Maria Smilios. This remarkable book has earned and incredible 9.4 out of 10 rating on our BookClubs we...
2024-07-082h 17
Lost Women of ScienceLost Women of Science Conversations: The Black AngelsIn the first of a new series we’re calling Lost Women of Science Conversations—and a fitting choice for Black History Month—we talk to Maria Smilios, author of a new book that tells the story of Black nurses who were lured from the Jim Crow South to work at a tuberculosis (TB) hospital called Sea View on Staten Island, N.Y. Facing unsanitary conditions and racial prejudice, these “Black Angels” cared for TB patients for decades before a cure that they helped develop was found. It’s a story of bravery and dedication that Smilios pieced together from oral hi...
2024-02-2927 min
Skipped HistoryThe Improbable Path to Curing TuberculosisWith the CDC set to end the 5-day isolation period for Covid, as well as rates of disease transmission spiking in Ukraine and Gaza, I thought it a poignant time to explore the history of one of the world’s most infectious diseases: tuberculosis. In her book, The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis, and in conversation, author Maria Smilios traces the twists and turns of the journey to curing TB, and why too many people still go without treatment today. This is a public episode. If you'd lik...
2024-02-1633 min
History Nerds UnitedThe Black Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis With Maria SmiliosSend us a textLet's find a cure! Author Maria Smilios joins the podcast to talk her book The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis. Come listen!Buy The Black AngelsCheck out Maria's websiteSupport the show
2024-02-0731 min
The New Era Woman RadioBLACK NURSE HISTORY: Black Angels Book Review AUTHOR Maria SmiliosThe Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure TuberculosisNew 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 strictures of Jim Crow. But after arriving, they found themselves on an isolated hillto...
2024-02-0230 min
The Untapped New York PodcastThe Untold Story of Staten Island's Black Nurses Who Helped Cure TuberculosisThis episode of the Untapped New York podcast features a reading and interview with Maria Smilios, the author of the book The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis. Her eloquently and meticulously researched narrative non-fiction book is told with first hand interviews with the Black Angel nurses of Sea View Hospital on Staten Island. In the episode, Smilios brings to light this important but forgotten story in a moving, lyrical recounting of the brave journey of the Black Angels and groundbreaking work. She also shares an audio recording of Virginia Allen, the last s...
2024-01-2453 min
The Wayward DragonsBodies and Elantris ReviewHello and welcome everyone!! Sorry for the delay in episodes, the holiday season got super busy and Kelsey got sick. This is what we discussed in this episode:Books:The Night is Alive by Heather GrahamBlack Angels by Maria SmiliosFragile by Lisa UngerCirce by Madeline MillerDrakon Prince by Jamie Mc FarlaneElantris by Brandon SandersonThe Download by Robert J. SawyerRaptor Series and Harrier Justice Series by Jamie Castle and C.J. Valin...
2024-01-0444 min
The Nurse Keith ShowThe Untold Story of the Courageous Black Nurses Who Helped Cure TuberculosisOn episode 454 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Maria Smilios, the author of The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis. In the course of their conversation, Keith and Ms Smilios discuss how numerous Black nurses fled the Jim Crow south in search of opportunity in the non-segregated north, and how many ended up working at Sea View Hospital on Staten Island, a facility focused on the treatment — and to a large extent the warehousing — of thousands of TB patients.Listeners may be shocked to learn that t...
2023-12-2948 min
SEE YOU NOW100: The Untold Story of the Black AngelsFrom our first episode, SEE YOU NOW has been focused on trailblazers, changemakers and pioneers, and our 100th episode features a nurse who embodies these values. Virginia Allen, LPN is the last known living Black Angel, part of a group of Black nurses recruited from the Jim Crow South whose tireless efforts led to a cure for tuberculosis, a disease responsible for nearly 18% of New York City deaths in the early 1900s. This story follows the Black Angels who, for twenty years, risked their lives working under dreadful conditions while caring for the city's poorest and played a major...
2023-12-1355 min
KPL PodcastKPL Podcast December 2023 Week 2 with Special Guest Maria SmiliosWelcome back to another episode of the KPL podcast. This week we have author Maria Smilios to discuss Black Angels: the untold story of the nurses who helped cure tuberculosis. This book brings to light a part of history that is long overdue.Books About Tuberculosis1 Phantom Plague by Vidya Krishnan2 White Plague: Tuberculosis, Man and Society by Rene and Jean Dubos3 The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis by Thomas GoetzBook Recommendations1 Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward2 Yellowface by RF Kuang3 King...
2023-12-0842 min
Across the Margin: The PodcastEpisode 179: The Black Angels with Maria SmiliosThis episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast presents an interview with Maria Smilios, a New York City native who has a Master of Arts in religion and literature from Boston University, where she was a Luce Scholar and a Presidential Scholar. Smilios spent five years at Springer Science & Business Media as development editor in the biomedical sciences, and has written for The Guardian, American Nurse, The Forward, Narratively, The Rumpus, and DAME Magazine. Her book, The Black Angels — the focus of this episode — tells the untold story of the nurses who helped cure tuberculosis. Nearly a century before the...
2023-12-0737 minThe Wayward DragonsAmerican Horror Story NYC and The Black Angels ReviewHello and welcome everyone! This is what we will be reviewing in this episode:Books:Confessions On The 7:45 by Lisa UngerBrave New World by Aldous Huxley and Christopher HitchensThe Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis by Maria SmiliosTv Shows:American Horror Story-NYCOperation PaperclipPlease rate, review and subscribe! Don’t forget to tell a friend!You can join us on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube!...
2023-12-0632 min
History Extra podcastDisease killers: the black nurses who conquered TBTuberculosis – otherwise known as the ‘Great White Plague’ – was a scourge on society and killed countless sufferers. Rhiannon Davies spoke to Maria Smilios to find out about the little-known story of the black nurses of New York’s Seaview Hospital who helped fight the disease – and were part of the historic drug trials of the 1950s that saw the arrival of a long-awaited cure.(Ad) Maria Smilios is the author of The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis (Little Brown, 2023). Buy it now from Waterstones: https://go.skimresources.com?id=71026...
2023-10-2535 min
Enjoy Into A Riveting Full Audiobook Before Bedtime.The Black Angels by Maria SmiliosPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/124525to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Black Angels
Author: Maria Smilios
Narrator: Gina Daniels
Format: mp3
Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
Release date: 10-05-23
Ratings: Not rated yet
Genres: History & Commentary
Publisher's Summary:
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 tuberculosis, one of the world's deadliest plagues, told alongside the often strange chronicle of the cure's discovery. Spanning the Great Depression and moving through World War II and beyond, this story follows the intrepid young...
2023-10-0512h 14
Embark On The Breakthrough Full Audiobook Experience!The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis by Maria SmiliosPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/669359to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
Author: Maria Smilios
Narrator: Gina Daniels
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 12 hours 13 minutes
Release date: September 19, 2023
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3
Genres: Women
Publisher's Summary:
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, Ne...
2023-09-1912h 13Listen To The Immersive Full Audiobook Now, Curious Minds!The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis by Maria SmiliosPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/669359to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
Author: Maria Smilios
Narrator: Gina Daniels
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 12 hours 13 minutes
Release date: September 19, 2023
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3
Genres: Medicine & Naturopathy
Publisher's Summary:
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 Vi...
2023-09-1912h 13Experience An Powerful Full Audiobook And Elevate Your Mindset.The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis by Maria SmiliosPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/669359to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
Author: Maria Smilios
Narrator: Gina Daniels
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 12 hours 13 minutes
Release date: September 19, 2023
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3
Genres: The Americas
Publisher's Summary:
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 Vi...
2023-09-1912h 13Listen to New Full Audiobooks in History, The AmericasThe Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis by Maria SmiliosPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/669359to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
Author: Maria Smilios
Narrator: Gina Daniels
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 12 hours 13 minutes
Release date: September 19, 2023
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3
Genres: The Americas
Publisher's Summary:
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 Vi...
2023-09-1912h 13
Latest Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, WomenThe Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis by Maria SmiliosPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/669359 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis Author: Maria Smilios Narrator: Gina Daniels Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 13 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: 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 Vi...
2023-09-1910 minListen to Latest Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, WomenThe Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis by Maria SmiliosPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/669359to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
Author: Maria Smilios
Narrator: Gina Daniels
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 12 hours 13 minutes
Release date: September 19, 2023
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3
Genres: Women
Publisher's Summary:
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, Ne...
2023-09-1912h 13
New Books in African American StudiesMaria Smilios, "The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2023)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 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 co...
2023-09-1941 min
New Books in Women's HistoryMaria Smilios, "The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2023)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 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 co...
2023-09-1941 min
New Books in MedicineMaria Smilios, "The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2023)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 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 co...
2023-09-1939 min
New Books in GenderMaria Smilios, "The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2023)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 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 co...
2023-09-1941 min
New Books In Public HealthMaria Smilios, "The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2023)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 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 co...
2023-09-1938 min
NBN Book of the DayMaria Smilios, "The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2023)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 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 co...
2023-09-1941 min
Indulge In The Most Addictive Full Audiobook Today!The Black Angels by Maria SmiliosPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/214601to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Black Angels
Author: Maria Smilios
Narrator: Gina Daniels
Format: mp3
Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
Release date: 09-19-23
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 137 ratings
Genres: Black & African American
Publisher's Summary:
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, th...
2023-09-1912h 13Listen to the Best Full Audiobooks in Health & Wellness, Medicine & NaturopathyThe Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis by Maria SmiliosPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/669359to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
Author: Maria Smilios
Narrator: Gina Daniels
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 12 hours 13 minutes
Release date: September 19, 2023
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3
Genres: Medicine & Naturopathy
Publisher's Summary:
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 Vi...
2023-09-1912h 13
History Unplugged PodcastHow An Unlikely Cohort of Black Nurses at a New York Sanatorium Helped Cure TuberculosisNearly a century before the COVID-19 pandemic upended life as we know it, a devastating tuberculosis epidemic was ravaging hospitals across the country. In those dark, pre-antibiotic days, the disease claimed the lives of 1 in 7 Americans; in the United States alone, it killed over 5.6 million people in the first half of the twentieth century. Nowhere was TB more rampant than in New York City, where it spread like wildfire through the tenements, decimating the city’s poorest residents. The city’s hospital system was already overwhelmed when, in 1929, the white nurses at Staten Island’s Sea View Hospital began quitting en mas...
2023-09-1254 min
Books by DL White BookcastBookcast Episode 55: Still I RiseOn Episode 55 of the Bookcast, I talked about the books I read this week, raising my Goodreads annual reading challenge goal and progress against that, as well as sales on my latest novel Elysium and changing up my marketing strategy for that book (I mean, developing one, because I didn't really have one except for write the book and publish it). I also talked about the next book, which I start writing next week with the #20Kin5Days challenge. I talked about the following books this week:Elysium, A Black Diamond Vacation Romance (happy rele...
2023-09-0938 min