{"id":7887,"date":"2020-03-24T10:08:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T16:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7887"},"modified":"2020-03-24T10:08:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T16:08:01","slug":"the-defiance-of-florence-nightingale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7887","title":{"rendered":"The Defiance of Florence Nightingale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/the-worlds-most-famous-nurse-florence-nightingale-180974155\/?utm_source=pocket-newtab\">Joshua Hammer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>She\u2019s the \u201cavenging angel,\u201d the \u201cministering angel,\u201d the \u201clady with the lamp\u201d\u2014the brave woman whose name would become synonymous with selflessness and compassion. Yet as Britain prepares to celebrate Florence Nightingale\u2019s 200th birthday on May 12\u2014with a wreath-laying at Waterloo Place, a special version of the annual Procession of the Lamp at Westminster Abbey, a two-day conference on nursing and global health sponsored by the Florence Nightingale Foundation, and tours of her summer home in Derbyshire\u2014scholars are debating her reputation and accomplishments.<Br><Br><\/p>\n<p>Detractors recently have chipped away at Nightingale\u2019s role as a caregiver, pointing out that she served as a nurse for only three years. Meanwhile, perhaps surprisingly, some British nurses themselves have suggested they are tired of working in her shadow. But researchers are calling attention to her pioneering work as a statistician and as an early advocate for the modern idea that health care is a human right. Mark Bostridge, author of the biography Florence Nightingale, attributes much of the controversy to Nightingale\u2019s defiance of Victorian conventions. \u201cWe are very uncomfortable still with an intellectually powerful woman whose primary aim has nothing to do with men or family,\u201d Bostridge told me. \u201cI think misogyny has a lot to do with it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Hammer: She\u2019s the \u201cavenging angel,\u201d the \u201cministering angel,\u201d the \u201clady with the lamp\u201d\u2014the brave woman whose name would become synonymous with selflessness and compassion. Yet as Britain prepares to celebrate Florence Nightingale\u2019s 200th birthday on May 12\u2014with a wreath-laying at Waterloo Place, a special version of the annual Procession of the Lamp at Westminster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7888,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7887\/revisions\/7888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}