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Bedtime Biography: Florence Nightingale

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What’s it about?

A masterful biography revealing Florence Nightingale not as a gentle saint, but as a ferocious statistician and reformer who revolutionized nursing and public health from her sickbed.

You’ll learn

  • Nightingale was a brilliant, ruthless reformer
  • She used statistics to prove disease killed more than war
  • Her methods worked despite rejecting germ theory
  • True compassion requires knowledge and will