<i>Florence Nightingale at Home</i>, by Paul Crawford, Anna Greenwood, Richard Bates, and Jonathan Memel
Journal: Nursing History Review
Year: 2023

How positively strange that 2020, the bicentenary of Florence Nightingale’s birth, should also have brought us a global pandemic that has imperiled health care workers as much as the stricken. Intended as a watershed project and funded by Britain’s Arts and Humanities Research Council, this latest addition to Nightingale studies goes beyond the woman and her legend to consider how the idea of “home” as a physical space and a sociological abstraction penetrated the early history of nursing educat