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Florence Nightingale Biography
The Lady With the Lamp, the Crimean War Hospitals and the Statistician Who Reinvented Modern Nursing
German
21 b
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Everyone knows the lamp. Few know the woman who carried it: a wealthy daughter who spent years fighting her own family for the right to nurse, then led the nursing effort at the British hospitals at Scutari in the Crimean War. This biography follows Florence Nightingale from her birth in Florence to her death in London at ninety. It explains what the Barrack Hospital was really like, why the death rate fell and what historians still argue about the causes, how she turned army figures into a famous diagram, and how her training school and hospital designs reshaped nursing. It treats the legend fairly, sets her beside Mary Seacole, and flags what historians still dispute. A timeline, who's who, myths-and-facts table and discussion questions close the book.
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