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Florence Nightingale: a lady with more than a lamp
Author(s) -
Joyce Helen
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2008.00327.x
Subject(s) - statistician , wonder , neglect , chart , flow chart , classics , history , art , art history , philosophy , medicine , nursing , epistemology , statistics , mathematics , pathology , engineering drawing , engineering
Florence Nightingale was the first modern nurse. She was also a statistician—the first woman to be elected to the Statistical Society of London, in fact—and, as Helen Joyce tells us, the chart she devised to show that soldiers in the Crimea were dying of neglect rather than wounds was a thing of wonder.