Competing Visions: Nightingale, Eliot, and Victorian Health Reform
Journal: Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks
Year: 2010

By the mid 1860s, Nightingale had acquired a degree of moral authority in the general public as a result primarily of her widely documented work in the Crimea. But she had also earned the respect of many in government and intellectual circles, through her largely behind-the-scenes work on issues related to the sick, the poor, and women—including workhouse reform, hospital design, retraining women for careers in nursing, and army and hospital sanitary reform. Some of the leading female reformers