The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
By Maria Smilios
This was so interesting. It tells the history of tuberculosis in the first half of the 20th century by following the lives of a few of the nurses, some of the patients, and a few scientists and doctors who were involved in the search for cure. The focus is on Seaview hospital in Staten Island, the nurses who were recruited from the Jim Crow South, and the struggles to fight racism and hospital segregation in the north. [non-fiction; 428pp. including notes and index]
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