Florence Nightingale and Clara Barton: The Lives and Careers of History's Most Influential Nurses

Today, nursing is one of the most ubiquitous professions in the world, and images of war immediately call to mind nursing the wounded, but it was not long ago that such ideas were relatively primitive. Indeed, schoolchildren are still taught about the revolutionary exploits of Florence Nightingale, the war nurse who is often credited as the founder of modern nursing. As The Times wrote of Nightingale, “She is a `ministering angel' without any exaggeration in these hospitals, and as her slen...