Then I went over to Holmes Books in Oakland and found two books on Florence Nightingale, who had served as a nurse in the Crimean War — a biography by Cecil Woodham-Smith, and Sir Edward Cook ...

Florence Nightingale is often described as the founder of modern nursing. ... Nightingale is not a linear biography, nor a detailed account of Nightingale’s public accomplishments.

His book, Florence Nightingale: the Making of an Icon, is the first fully documented biography of this pioneer of the nursing profession, and is published by Penguin. Top «; More Victorians ...

Avenging Angel, a controversial 1998 biography by Hugh Small, contends that Scutari had the highest death rates of any hospital in the Crimean theater, that Nightingale didn’t grasp the role of ...

The following are highlights from Nightingale's biography by the Florence Nightingale Museum paired with HealthLeaders Media stories featuring the work of modern-day nurses.

More often than not, she has been misrepresented and misunderstood.In this remarkable book, the first major biography of Florence Nightingale in over fifty years, Mark Bostridge draws on a wealth ...

Strachey (1880-1932) believed that biography was an art, ... “Eminent Victorians,” published 100 years ago, took gleeful aim at the likes of Florence Nightingale and Thomas Arnold.

Florence Nightingale is often described as the founder of modern nursing. ... Nightingale is not a linear biography, nor a detailed account of Nightingale’s public accomplishments.