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How the other half lives : studies among the tenements of New York / by Riis, Jacob A.(Jacob August),1849-1914.; Sante, Luc.;

Includes bibliographical references (p. xxiii-xxv).Provides a detailed picture of what life in the slums of New York was like, how the slums were created, how and why they remained as they were, who was forced to live there, and offers suggestions for easing the lot of the poor.Genesis of the tenement -- Awakening -- Mixed crowd -- Down town back-alleys -- Italian in New York -- Bend -- Raid on stale beer dives -- Cheap lodging houses -- Chinatown -- Jewtown -- Sweaters of Jewtown -- Bohemians, tenement house cigarmaking -- Color line in New York -- Common herd -- Problem of the children -- Waifs on the city's slums -- Street Arab -- Reign of rum -- Harvest of tares -- Working girls of New York -- Pauperism in the tenements -- Wrecks and the waste -- Man with the knife -- What has been done -- How the case stands.

Subjects: Poor; Tenement houses;

© 1997., Penguin Books,

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Taking care : the story of nursing and its power to change our world / by DiGregorio, Sarah,author.aut;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-266) and index."Nurses have always been vital to human existence. A nurse was likely there when you were born and a nurse might well be there when you die. Familiar in hospitals and doctors' offices, these dedicated health professionals can also be found in schools, prisons, and people's homes; at summer camps; on cruise ships, and even at NASA. Yet despite being celebrated during the Covid-19 epidemic, nurses are often undermined and undervalued in ways that reflect misogyny and racism, and that extend to their working conditions--and affect the care available to everyone. But the potential power of nursing to create a healthier, more just world endures. The story of nursing is complicated. It is woven into war, plague, religion, the economy, and our individual lives in myriad ways. In Taking Care, journalist Sarah DiGregorio chronicles the lives of nurses past and tells the stories of those today--caregivers at the vital intersection of health care and community who are actively changing the world, often invisibly. An absorbing and empathetic work that combines storytelling with nuanced reporting, Taking Care examines how we have always tried to care for each other--the incredible ways we have succeeded and the ways in which we have failed. Fascinating, empowering and significant, it is a call for change and a love letter to the nurses of yesterday, today, and tomorrow."--

Subjects: Nursing; Nursing; Nurses; Hospital care; Nursing.; History of Nursing; Nurses; Nursing Care;

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Church of Marvels / by Parry, Leslie,1979-;

"New York, 1895. Sylvan Threadgill, a night soiler cleaning out the privies behind the tenement houses, finds an abandoned newborn baby in the muck. An orphan himself, Sylvan rescues the child, determined to find where she belongs. Odile Church and her beautiful sister, Belle, were raised amid the applause and magical pageantry of The Church of Marvels, their mother's spectacular Coney Island sideshow. But the Church has burnt to the ground, their mother dead in its ashes. Now Belle, the family's star, has vanished into the bowels of Manhattan, leaving Odile alone and desperate to find her. A young woman named Alphie awakens to find herself trapped across the river in Blackwell's Lunatic Asylum--sure that her imprisonment is a ruse by her husband's vile, overbearing mother. On the ward she meets another young woman of ethereal beauty who does not speak, a girl with an extraordinary talent that might save them both. As these strangers' lives become increasingly connected, their stories and secrets unfold. Moving from the Coney Island seashore to the tenement-studded streets of the Lower East Side, a spectacular human circus to a brutal, terrifying asylum, Church of Marvels takes readers back to turn-of-the-century New York--a city of hardship and dreams, love and loneliness, hope and danger"--Amazon.com.

Subjects: Abandoned children; Sisters; Asylums;

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Defining Documents in American History : Pandemics, Plagues & Public Health / by Shally-Jensen, Michael,editor.;

Edition statement supplied by publisher.Includes bibliographical references and index.Publisher's Note -- Editor's Introduction -- Contributors -- VOLUME 1 -- SICKNESS UNTO DEATH IN EARLY TIMES : Thucydides on the Athenian Plague -- Requirements for a Physician -- Galen, Method of Medicine -- Plague of Cyprian: De Mortalitate -- On Fate and Providence, from The Consolation of Philosophy -- Procopius on Plague -- "On Experimental Science" -- The Black Death: Two Readings -- Decameron -- Statute of Laborers -- Florentine Chronicle -- Nostradamus on a Remedy for the Plague -- The Charitable Pestmaster, or, The Cure of the Plague -- From A Journal of the Plague Year -- An Historical Account of the Small-Pox Inoculated in New England -- Letters by James Oglethorpe on an Epidemic of Influenza in Savannah, Georgia, 1733 -- An Account of the Bilious Remitting Yellow Fever -- DISEASE IN THE INDUSTRIAL ERA : Report on the Typhus Epidemic in Upper Silesia (1947-48) -- On the Mode of Communication of Cholera -- An Emigrant's Narrative; or, A Voice from the Steerage -- National Quarantine Act -- From How the Other Half Lives -- Epidemic Diseases Act (British India, 1897) -- Pure Food and Drug Act -- Child Labor in the New York City Tenements -- Australian Quarantine Document -- Documents Relating to the Trudeau Sanitarium -- Notice to Alaskan Natives Regarding Flu Containment -- Plans for a Liberty Bond Parade during the 1918 Flu Pandemic -- 1924 Pneumonic Plague in Los Angeles -- Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938 -- Streptomycin Experiment Notebook -- On the Polio Vaccine Situation / VOLUME 2 -- DISEASE IN THE MODERN ERA : "1,112 and Counting" -- ACT UP Founding Document and Speech -- Retraction of Lancet Paper on MMR Vaccine and Autism -- Reports Concerning the H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic -- On the Spread of the Zika virus to the Americas -- California's Vaccination Law -- Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Interview Regarding the Coronavirus -- Remarks by President Trump and Vice President Pence on the Formation of the Coronavirus Task Force -- COVID-19 Brings Health Disparities Research to the Forefront -- SCOURGES OF WAR : The First Gas Attack -- The Effects of Shell Shock -- An Army Physician on the 1918 Flu Pandemic -- The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Nature of An Atomic Explosion -- Biological Weapons Convention -- SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND PUBLIC HEALTH : The Nature and Occasions of Intemperance -- Address before the Second Biennial Convention of the World Women's Christian Temperance Union -- Harrison Narcotic Act -- Volstead Act -- Alcoholics Anonymous "Big Book" -- Report of the Joint Committee of the American Bar Association and the American Medical -- Association on Narcotic Drugs -- Special Report: Smoking and Health -- Controlled Substances Act-Section 202 -- Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" Message to the Nation -- George Bush's Address to the Nation on National Drug Control Strategy -- Testimony from the 1994 Tobacco Hearings -- Statement and News Release regarding Purdue OxyContin Case -- APPENDIXES : Chronological List -- Web Resources -- Bibliography -- Index."Plagues and pandemics are a part of global history, from the biblical 'plague of locusts' to today's COVID-19 pandemic. Dealing with unchecked diseases and disasters has given rise to great human suffering and loss of life, but it has also played a significant role in shaping our societies. Advances in public health, medicine, scientific research, and even the arts have often been inspired by or required of those who have survived. This two-volume set includes content on the Black Death, smallpox, the plague, malaria, typhoid, polio, SARS, AIDS, COVID-19, and others. Documents included in Defining Documents in World History: Pandemics, Plagues & Public Health comprise political speeches, newspaper articles, medical advances, legislation, arranged chronologically." --

Subjects: Communicable diseases; Epidemics; Public health; Quarantine; Public health surveillance; Substance abuse;

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