> ... 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. #MarkBostridge, author of the biography Florence Nightingale, attributes much of the controversy to Nightingale’s defiance of Victorian conventions. “We are very uncomfortable still with an intellectually powerful woman whose primary aim has nothing to do with men or family,” Bostridge told me. “I think misogyny has a lot to do with it.”
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-worlds-most-famous-nurse-florence-nightingale-180974155/
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