Here is a book I read, not for my pleasure, but to save on voice recorder to enable a visually impaired person to enjoy it. This is not the kind of reading I normally comment on this blog and I do not believe that this biography will interest many readers, but it is also a book for personal use, I note that my impressions soon.
Abstract:
In England, Florence Nightingale was a legend. In the nineteenth century, this young woman of good family refuses to follow the life of wife who is drawn to her and is fighting to follow his vocation to become a nurse. At the time, this profession notorious for only recruits poor women alcoholics without medical training. While Florence is formed abroad and runs a clinic, the United Kingdom fought alongside France in the Crimea. Reportages scary light up the British on the status of their wounded soldiers in military hospitals: careless, together in unhealthy places, they die like flies from lack of care or disease. Florence is then sent on site at the head of a group of nurses, and carry out radical changes despite opposition from the military hierarchy and the internal disputes among its recruits. It will become "The Lady with The Lamp, "the lady with the lamp that makes the night round the hospital, an icon whose status it will use to renovate profoundly the status and role of the nurse.
My opinion:
I do not know Florence Nightingale discovered before reading another book about it long ago, and it's quite fun to explore the biography of someone so famous in his home country that does not bother to show it, so it is unknown on this side of the Channel. If his influence has been especially remarkable in Anglo-Saxon, her life is nonetheless extremely interesting. The girl (since they never married) has completely reformed the nursing profession, hospitals English (she even wrote architectural treatises on their construction), basic medical practices in institutions or at home, the health organization of the British army (it has also addressed the health and social problems in India but with less success), but it has also invented new diagrams to illustrate the statistical and epidemiological information that it used extensively, and paved the way for a certain freedom for women in her condition, previously sentenced to a life of housewife wasting their erudition often large. A true pioneer, so.
To complicate matters, we must know that Florence Nightingale was achieved in his youth, a serious and chronic illness that forced her to remain cloistered in his room most of the time. It has yet lived very old and since her bed, was able to accomplish great things described above playing marvel of its influence to pull strings politicians and scientists a good position.
Her forced retirement has meant to force him to communicate by letters a lot. which is obviously a boon to historians who got down to his biography. Mark Bostridge is not the first, and before him, and the writers have described the rumor Florence Nightingale very different guise: as an icon of holiness and devotion First woman as authoritarian and impatient then. ;
Mark Bostridge's biography has the advantage of reconciling these two views and a portrait of Florence Nightingale extremely comprehensive, and we imagine all the more true it is extremely well documented. It covers all the salient features of his personality, the best and the worst. The order is chronological but also arranged by subject, on a very clear pattern. The abundance of details and characters are sometimes a bit disturbing and the language particularly well give a bit of trouble the reader who does not feel quite at ease in the language of Shakespeare (especially when it 's acts of reproductions of letters from that time). But generally speaking, if you want to know the life of this character interesting history, this book is THE essential reference. I can not imagine that we can match the accuracy or completeness.
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