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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
A Note to Readers
Prologue: Remembrance of Things Past
Part I: 1929–1935
Chapter 1: The Call for Nurses
Chapter 2: The Preacher’s Daughter
Chapter 3: The Wager
Chapter 4: Harlem
Chapter 5: Contagion on the Island
Chapter 6: The Most Magnificent Institution
Chapter 7: The Scourge
Chapter 8: Elke
Chapter 9: Vows
Chapter 10: The Thoracoplasty
Chapter 11: The Movement
Chapter 12: The Breakthrough
Chapter 13: The Riot
Part II: 1936–1939
Chapter 14: Ward 64
Chapter 15: A President’s Son
Chapter 16: What They Carried
Chapter 17: The Elixir
Chapter 18: “Reserved for Whites”
Chapter 19: The Fight
Chapter 20: The Offer
Chapter 21: Homecoming
Part III: 1940–1944
Chapter 22: Dr. Edward Robitzek
Chapter 23: Arrivals
Chapter 24: The Prisoner
Chapter 25: “Al Hit Paydirt!”
Chapter 26: “Ich Hoffe Du Wirst Krank”
Part IV: 1944–1949
Chapter 27: The Nature of Things
Chapter 28: “In the Business of Dying”
Chapter 29: Promise
Chapter 30: 188 Wheeler Avenue
Chapter 31: Firsts
Chapter 32: Dark Places
Chapter 33: A Brighter Future
Chapter 34: The Second Call
Chapter 35: “Magic Germ Killer”
Chapter 36: New Beginnings
Chapter 37: “If One Had Some Streptomycin”
Part V: 1949–1952
Chapter 38: Rumors
Chapter 39: Mamie
Chapter 40: The Carnation
Chapter 41: On the Open Ward
Chapter 42: A Funeral to Rejoice
Chapter 43: The Apparitions
Chapter 44: A Trial of Five
Chapter 45: “Do Not Say a Thing”
Chapter 46: The Wonder Drug
Chapter 47: Breaking Glass
Epilogue
Photographs
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Photo Credits
Index
About the Author
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