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Preschool screening in North Carolina : pulmonary tuberculosis screening at school entry / by McKee, Daphne C.(CARDINAL)269613; Lessler, Ken,1933-(CARDINAL)269612; North Carolina.Office of Comprehensive Health Planning.(CARDINAL)190345; Human Resource Consultants.;
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 22-25).
Subjects: Tuberculosis in children;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Extraordinary means / by Schneider, Robyn,author.(CARDINAL)479525;
From the author of The Beginning of Everything: two teens with a deadly disease fall in love on the brink of a cure. At seventeen, overachieving Lane finds himself at Latham House, a sanatorium for teens suffering from an incurable strain of tuberculosis. Part hospital and part boarding school, Latham is a place of endless rules and confusing rituals, where it’s easier to fail breakfast than it is to flunk French. There, Lane encounters a girl he knew years ago. Instead of the shy loner he remembers, Sadie has transformed. At Latham, she is sarcastic, fearless, and utterly compelling. Her friends, a group of eccentric troublemakers, fascinate Lane, who has never stepped out of bounds his whole life. And as he gradually becomes one of them, Sadie shows him their secrets: how to steal internet, how to sneak into town, and how to disable the med sensors they must wear at all times. But there are consequences to having secrets, particularly at Latham House. And as Lane and Sadie begin to fall in love and their group begins to fall sicker, their insular world threatens to come crashing down. Told in alternating points of view, Extraordinary Means is a darkly funny story about doomed friendships, first love, and the rare miracle of second chances.860LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Dating (Social customs); Boarding schools; First loves; Hospitals; Tuberculosis.; Terminally ill children; Sick children; Sick; Sanatoriums; Teenagers; Behavior disorders in children.; Young adult fiction.; Diseases; Terminally ill; Love; Tuberculosis; People with disabilities;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The nigger of the Narcissus : a tale of the forecastle / by Conrad, Joseph,1857-1924.(CARDINAL)141202;
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Sea fiction.; Black people; Ocean travel; Terminally ill; Tuberculosis; West Indians;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Doctors without borders : humanitarian quests, impossible dreams of Médecins sans frontières / by Fox, Renée C.(Renée Claire),1928-2020,author.(CARDINAL)150855;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Voices from the field -- Origins, schisms, crises -- "Nobel or rebel"? -- MSF Greece ostracized -- The return of MSF Greece -- La Mancha -- Struggling with HIV/AIDS -- In Khayelitsha -- A "non-western "entity" is born -- Reaching out to the homeless and street children of Moscow / with Olga Shevchenko -- Confronting TB in Siberian prisons / with Olga Shevchenko.The book begins with moving, detailed accounts from the blogs of women and men working for MSF in the field. From there, Fox chronicles the organization's early history and development, paying special attention to its struggles during the first decades of its existence to clarify and implement its principles. The core of the book is centered on her observations in the field of MSF's efforts to combat a rampant epidemic of HIV/AIDS in postapartheid South Africa and the organization's response to two challenges in postsocialist Russia: an enormous surge in homelessness on the streets of Moscow and a massive epidemic of tuberculosis in the penal colonies of Siberia. Fox's accounts of these crises exemplify MSF's struggles to provide for thousands of people in need when both the populations and the aid workers are in danger.
Subjects: Médecins sans frontières (Association); Medical assistance, French.; Humanitarian assistance, French.; Epidemics;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Child Zero / by Holm, Chris,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-342)."From molecular biologist turned Anthony Award-winning author of The Killing Kind comes a fact-based thriller about our species' next great existential threat--perfect for fans of Michael Crichton. It began four years ago with a worldwide uptick of bacterial infections: meningitis in Frankfurt, cholera in Johannesburg, tuberculosis in New Delhi. Although the outbreaks spread aggressively and proved impervious to our drugs of last resort, public health officials initially dismissed them as unrelated. They were wrong. Antibiotic resistance soon roiled across the globe. Diseases long thought beaten came surging back. The death toll skyrocketed. Then New York City was ravaged by the most heinous act of bioterror the world had ever seen, perpetrated by a new brand of extremist bent on pushing humanity to extinction. Detective Jacob Gibson, who lost his wife in the 8/17 attack, is home caring for his sick daughter when his partner summons him to a sprawling shantytown in Central Park, the apparent site of a mass murder. Jake is startled to discover that, despite a life of abject squalor, the victims died in perfect health--and his only hope of finding answers is a twelve-year-old boy on the run from some very dangerous men."--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Dystopian fiction.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Bioterrorism; Mass murder; Murder; Runaway children; Terrorism; Police; Police.;
Available copies: 14 / Total copies: 14
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Virgin River : a Barnaby Skye novel / by Wheeler, Richard S.(CARDINAL)346064;
Barnaby Skye and his two wives lead a party of tubercular children and their families through the desert Southwest in search of a cure at Virgin River, but their expedition is threatened by rival guides and superstitious fears.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Western fiction.; Indian women; Skye, Barnaby (Fictitious character); Tuberculosis; Wagon trains;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Stronger than death : how Annalena Tonelli defied terror and tuberculosis in the Horn of Africa / by Jones, Rachel Pieh,author.(CARDINAL)816219;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-266)."Somalia's Mother Teresa chose love over fear. Amid a volatile mix of disease, war, and religious fundamentalism in the Horn of Africa, what difference could one woman make? "I am nobody," she always insisted. Yet by the time she was killed for her work three decades later she had not only developed an effective cure for tuberculosis among nomadic peoples but also exposed a massacre, established homes and schools for the deaf, advocated against female genital mutilation, and secured treatment for ostracized AIDS patients. Months after winning the Nansen Refugee Award from the UN in 2003, Annalena Tonelli was assassinated at one of the tuberculosis hospitals she founded. Rachel Pieh Jones, an American writer, was living a few doors down, having moved to Somaliland with her husband and two children just months before. Annalena's death would alter the course of her life. No one who encounters Annalena in these pages will leave unchanged. Brought vividly back to life through Jones's meticulous reporting and her own letters, Annalena presents us with a new measure of success and commitment. But she also leaves us a gift: the secret to overcoming the fear that pervades our society and our hearts - fear of disease and death, fear of terrorism and war, fear of others, and fear of failure"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Biographies.; Tonelli, Annalena, 1943-2003.; Human rights workers; Italians; Lawyers; Nurses; Tuberculosis;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A good time to be born : how science and public health gave children a future / by Klass, Perri,1958-author.(CARDINAL)746368;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-357) and index."Only one hundred years ago, in even the world's wealthiest nations, children died in great numbers--of diarrhea, diphtheria, and measles, of scarlet fever and tuberculosis. Throughout history, culture has been shaped by these deaths; diaries and letters recorded them, and writers such as Louisa May Alcott, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Eugene O'Neill wrote about and mourned them. Not even the powerful and the wealthy could escape: of Abraham and Mary Lincoln's four children, only one survived to adulthood, and the first billionaire in history, John D. Rockefeller, lost his beloved grandson to scarlet fever. For children of the poor, immigrants, enslaved people and their descendants, the chances of dying were far worse. The steady beating back of infant and child mortality is one of our greatest human achievements. Interweaving her own experiences as a medical student and doctor, Perri Klass pays tribute to groundbreaking women doctors like Rebecca Lee Crumpler, Mary Putnam Jacobi, and Josephine Baker, and to the nurses, public health advocates, and scientists who brought new approaches and scientific ideas about sanitation and vaccination to families. These scientists, healers, reformers, and parents rewrote the human experience so that--for the first time in human memory--early death is now the exception rather than the rule, bringing about a fundamental transformation in society, culture, and family life" --
Subjects: Children; Infants; Children; Medicine; Preventive health services.; Children.;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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For Church and Confederacy : the Lynches of South Carolina / by Lynch (Family :Mebane, N.C.),author.(CARDINAL)261373(CARDINAL)840070; Curran, Robert Emmett,editor.(CARDINAL)717121;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Prologue: "For their Faith and Country" -- Antebellum Years: "Everyone must have their own trouble" -- 1858: "The honor and dignity you have received" -- 1859 January-June: "This mustard seed, this tiny nut" -- 1859 July-December: "Tempest in a tea-pot" -- 1860 January-June: "I wish to turn everything to advantage" -- 1860 July-December: "Such a disruption could never be healed" -- 1861 January-June: "Pro Deo et pro Patria" -- 1861 July-December: "The separation of the Southern States is un fait accompli" -- 1862 January-June: "Is not the country in an awful state?" -- 1862 July-December: "What glorious news of late!" -- 1863 January-June: "Do you expect peace . . . as soon as everybody else?" -- 1863 July-September: "We are storming heaven for Charleston now." -- 1863 October-December: "I do not know what will become of us." -- 1864 January-March: "The whole is a matter of endurance." -- 1864 April-July: "Father . . . is very hopeful about your mission." -- 1864 July-September: "The fundamental danger . . . is the Antagonism of Races." -- 1864 October-December: "A miracle, a standing miracle" -- 1865 February-April: "This last news was a terrible stroke." -- 1865 May-December: "By the destruction of the South, all this is lost.""The Lynches of South Carolina were second-generation immigrants of parents with distinguished Irish roots who had come to America to restore the fortunes which religion and race had cost them in their occupied homeland. In the rising upcountry town of Cheraw Conlaw, Peter and Eleanor Neison Lynch quickly established themselves as leading citizens. The dozen children Eleanor successfully bore, however, were hardly conducive to the reacquisition of wealth. Of the twelve, five succumbed to tuberculosis, the disease that haunted the family. Of the seven survivors, five made exceptional marks in the careers they pursued, in medicine, manufacturing, and the religious life. Most notable was the eldest, Patrick Neison, who became the third Roman Catholic bishop of Charleston. Patrick developed a national reputation as a polemicist, preacher, and self-taught geologist. During the Civil War, Bishop Lynch proved to be the outstanding Catholic apologist for the Confederacy, a status that led Confederate officials to appoint him a special commissioner to the Papal States, in order to gain, if possible, the Church's recognition of the Confederate States, and with that recognition, the influence that might lead to European intervention"--
Subjects: Personal correspondence.; Lynch, Patrick Neison, 1817-1882; Lynch family; Catholics;
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The house of whispers / by Purcell, Laura,author.(CARDINAL)416647;
"Consumption has ravaged Louise Pinecroft's family, leaving her and her father alone and heartbroken. But Dr. Pinecroft has plans for a revolutionary experiment: convinced that sea air will prove to be the cure his wife and children needed, he arranges to house a group of prisoners suffering from the disease in the caves beneath his new Cornish home. While he devotes himself to his controversial medical trials, Louise finds herself increasingly discomfited by the strange tales her new maid tells of the fairies that hunt the land, searching for those they can steal away to their realm. Forty years later, Hester arrives at Morvoren House to take up a position as nurse to the now partially paralyzed and mute Miss Pinecroft. Hester has fled to Cornwall to try to escape her past, but surrounded by superstitious staff enacting bizarre rituals, she soon discovers her new home may be just as dangerous as her last."--Publisher.
Subjects: Horror fiction.; Historical fiction.; Gothic fiction.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Tuberculosis; Human experimentation in medicine; Fairies; Superstition;
Available copies: 14 / Total copies: 17
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