Florence Nightingale a Hundred Years on: who she was and what she was not

2010/11/01 by Lynn McDonald · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Data Analysis and Archiving #Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes #Poorhouse #Historiography #History #Work (physics) #Obituary #Biography #Sociology #Classics #Art history #Archaeology

paper · doi:10.1080/09612025.2010.509934

openalex publication_date 2010/11/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29

Abstract

This article reviews Florence Nightingale's work 100 years after her death, based on surviving writing compiled for The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale. Described are her founding of a new profession for women, based on patient care, her pioneering work in statistics and data analysis and her bold reform of the workhouse infirmaries. A section on historiography focuses on the negative impact of F. B. Smith's attack on Nightingale in 1982 and Monica Baly's progressively more negative interpretations from the 1970s to her death in 1998. Note is made of future research opportunities .

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