Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)

• Upper Class English

• Trained to be a nurse when not popular

• Headed nursing in 1954 in the Crimean War

  • The first media war where she became a star
  • Inspiration for the later establishment of the Red Cross

• Became a British national figure on health

• Used statistics on disease

• Mortality rates for soldiers

• Influenced by Quetelet

• Social and health reformer