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Nightingale, Florence
NIGHTINGALE, FLORENCE (1820–1910), is remembered as a nurse, yet she wrote in her seventies that, when planning her future as a young woman, her one idea was not to organi...
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Florence Nightingale
1820-1910
English Nurse
Driven by a message from God to nurse the sick, Florence Nightingale became known as the mother of the modern nursing profession. She single-handedly chang...
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Nightingale, Florence
The founder of modern secular nursing, a social activist, and a pioneer in the use of social statistics, Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) was born on April 12 in Florence,...
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The English nurse Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) was the founder of modern nursing and made outstanding contributions to knowledge of public health.Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy, ...
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Florence Nightingale is generally regarded as having founded the modern profession of nursing. She was born in Florence, Italy, to very wealthy parents who were on an extended honeymoon (2 years) thro...
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Florence Nightingale "was not simply the lady with the lamp," wrote A. G. Gardiner in 1914; "she was the lady with the brain and the tyrannic will." The self-effacing figure of popular myth--the "mini...
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In the following speech, originally delivered in 1910, Choate describes Nightingale's career as a war nurse.
I consider it a very great privilege to be permitted to stand here for a few minutes...
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In the following essay, Pugh discusses the correspondence of Nightingale and John Stuart Mill as it reveals the thoughts of both individuals on the subject of women's rights.
In Florence Nighti...
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In the following excerpt, Gates examines Nightingale's struggle with thoughts of suicide prompted by her early role as an idle, upper middle-class Victorian woman,
I have written elsewhere abou...
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In the following excerpt, Poovey explores Nightingale's conceptualization of nursing as contained in Notes on Nursing and other writings by Nightingale, examining her views in relation to the V...
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In the following essay, Landow studies Nightingale's "Cassandra" as an example of feminine "sagewriting"—a gendered version of a prose style that borrows its ...
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In the following essay, Snyder investigates the literary and cultural significance of Nightingale's transformation of "Cassandra" from a novel written from a feminine point of vie...
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In the following excerpted introduction to Suggestions for Thought, Calabria and Macrae detail the sources of Nightingale's ideas on religion.
Many years ago, I had a large and very curious ac...
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In the following essay, Jenkins probes Nightingale's theological thought, which, she argues, attempts to reclaim God's ethics for the marginalized feminine.
[Florence Nightingale] seems...
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In the following essay, Gardiner offers a sketch of Nightingale's life and an assessment of her influence on nursing.
Lying before me is a manuscript. It is written on large sheets of stout pap...
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In the following excerpt, Strachey recounts Nightingale's reform efforts in England, undertaken after her return from the Crimean War.
The name of Florence Nightingale lives in the memory of th...
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In the following essay, Housman considers Nightingale's exploits within the context of women's traditional roles in the Victorian age.
An iridescent medallion under glass, of a red cross...
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In the following essay, Bradford details the difficulties Nightingale encountered and overcame in her career as a reformer.
If there was ever a human being who was possessed by an Ideal that drove her...
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In the following essay, Adams and Foster examine Nightingale's life and character.
Florence Nightingale, when a child, had a large family of dolls. One day when she was entertaining them at a g...
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In the following essay, Rees compares the philosophical thought of Nightingale—as expressed in her Suggestions for Thought—and that of Simone Weil.
The pages which follow are extracts fr...
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In the following essay, Allen provides a psychoanalytic interpretation of Nightingale.
Florence Nightingale's life and career pose one demanding question above all else: How did a woman in mida...
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In the following essay, Showalter investigates Nightingale's relationship to nineteenth-century feminism, using both psychological evidence and that of Nightingale's Suggestions for Thou...
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Nursing in the 19th century was not considered a reputable career, but Florence Nightingale and her reforms completely altered society's views on the profession. She helped make hospitals cleaner and...
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In the 19th century, British hospitals were dirty and unpleasant, and the nurses were untrained. Florence Nightingale changed all of this. She was the founder of modern nursing and changed how people...
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Nightingale, Florence
Florence Nightingale
Nightingale, Florence
Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale
Speech by Joseph H. Choate
Florence Nightingale
