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26 | How Florence Nightingale Changed Medical History by Outsmarting Male Doctors

26 | How Florence Nightingale Changed Medical History by Outsmarting Male Doctors

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How did Florence Nightingale manage to stop British soldiers dying of infection before germ theory was discovered? This week we are sharing the story of the Mother of Nursing, the Lady with the Lamp, the one and only Florence Nightingale as we ask questions about medical history, patriarchy, and the history of women in STEM.


Sections

00:00 - Intro

00:15 - Florence Nightingale’s Story

08:25 - Debrief

34:54 - Announcements


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[00:29] Map of the Crimean Peninsula

[06:55 & 16:23] Diagram of the causes of mortality in the Army in the East - Florence Nightingale


Sources

[Britannica] Florence Nightingale Biography

[Florence Nightingale] Notes on nursing: what it is, and what it is not.

[NIH] The little-known history of cleanliness and the forgotten pioneers of handwashing

[SAP] Reworking Florence Nightingale’s Diagram

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