

The Black Angels - By Maria Smilios
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The Black Angels:
The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
By Maria Smilios
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons (2023)
ISBN-13: 9780593544921
Pages: 448
Genre(s): Black History, Women's History, Culture, Black/African-American Interest, Biography & Memoir
About the Book
NPR Science Friday Best Summer Beach Reads 2024
Winner of the Christopher Award 2024
NASW Science in Society Journalism Award Finalist
PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize Finalist 2024
New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nursing shortage.
Spanning the Great Depression and moving through World War II and beyond, this remarkable true story follows the intrepid young women known by their patients as the “Black Angels.” For twenty years, they risked their lives working under appalling conditions while caring for New York’s poorest residents, who languished in wards, waiting to die, or became guinea pigs for experimental surgeries and often deadly drugs.
6.19 "(W) x 9.26 "(H) x 1.36 "(D)
23 Oz
Maria Smilios
Maria Smilios learned about the Black Angels while working as a science book editor at Springer Publishing. As a native New Yorker and lover of history, medicine, and women’s narratives, she became determined to tell their story. In addition to interviewing historians, archivists, and medical professionals, she spent years immersed in the lives and stories of those close to these extraordinary women.
Maria holds a master of arts in religion and literature from Boston University, where she was a Luce scholar and taught in the religion and writing program. In her free time, she enjoys reading, hiking, and hanging out with her tween daughter and their rescue dog, Buddy. The Black Angels is her first book.
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