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The Myth Of Florence Nightingale
9 Aug 2023
The Myth Of Florence Nightingale:
The idea of Nightingale, the lady with the lamp, as the prototypical nurse—this mythic origin story—has served to strip nursing history of its truer, broader kaleidoscopic power. … [instead we can] understand nursing as the skilled modern expression of a fundamental, universal and ancient human instinct
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