tuberculosis

"Halle and her mother find unexpected solace on a tuberculosis ward in 1930s upstate New York"--Provided by publisher.

"In the pre-antibiotic days when tuberculosis stirred people's darkest fears, 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 consigned to a woefully understaffed sanitorium, dubbed 'the pest house' where it was said that 'no one left alive.' Spanning the Great Depression and moving through World War II and beyond, this 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. But despite their major role in desegregating the New York City hospital system--and their vital work in helping to find the cure for tuberculosis at Sea View--these nurses were completely erased from history. [This book] recovers the voices of these women and puts them at the center of this story, celebrating their legacy and spirit of survival"--Provided by publisher.

Conflict and resentments break out in a small Adirondack town in the fall of 1916 when Miles Fairchild, a wealthy resident living in a "cure cottage" while being treated for tuberculosis, decides to start a discussion group with patients--mostly poor European immigrants--confined in the state-run sanatorium.

For many years, patients with tuberculosis had to live in sanitoriums to stop the spread of infection and treatments included removing ribs and lungs. This book explores the history of the infectious disease known as the white death.

Provides the history of tuberculosis, the world's most lethal disease, and the birth of medical science through the work of Robert Koch, a German doctor who discovered that bacteria caused tuberculosis; and discusses how Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character, Sherlock Holmes, applied Koch's methods of deductive reasoning in his investigations.

A book for young adults exploring the history and evolution of medical technology.

When Tamara's mother is diagnosed with tuberculosis and sent to a sanatorium, Tamara is forced to care for her two younger siblings and their absentee father.

This book explores some of history's most gruesome diseases. Readers will be enthralled by the history and science of terrible plagues and the bacteria, bugs, bad hygiene, and rats responsible.

In 1940, thirteen-year-old Evvy Hoffmeister and her newfound friends struggle to get well at Loon Lake Sanatorium, where they are being treated for tuberculosis.

Provides information on the history, transmission, symptoms, screening, and treatment of tuberculosis.