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Florence Nightingale and Responsibility for Healthcare in the Home

Bates, Richard; Memel, Jonathan Godshaw

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Jonathan Godshaw Memel



Abstract

The focus for this article is the approach taken by the famous British nurse and public health reformer Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) to responsibility for care, with particular reference to healthcare as practised in the home. It begins by examining Nightingale’s involvement as a young woman in ‘Lady Bountiful’ style upper-class charitable health visiting in the period before 1850. It goes on to consider the district nursing model designed by Nightingale and William Rathbone in the 1860s as an attempt to adapt this localised model of charitable care to the demands of industrial Victorian cities. The final section broadens the lens to examine Nightingale’s views on religious vocations in care work and the state’s expanding role in regulating the nursing profession. Nightingale’s ideal vision of care combined multiple elements: attachment to a local community, a sense of religious vocation, and the scalability and fundraising of national or governmental organizations.

Citation

Bates, R., & Memel, J. G. (2021). Florence Nightingale and Responsibility for Healthcare in the Home. European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health, 79(2), 227-252. https://doi.org/10.1163/26667711-bja10012

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Nov 15, 2021
Online Publication Date Dec 28, 2021
Publication Date Dec 28, 2021
Deposit Date Jan 9, 2023
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health
Print ISSN 2666-7703
Electronic ISSN 2666-7711
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 79
Issue 2
Pages 227-252
DOI https://doi.org/10.1163/26667711-bja10012
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/15156678
Publisher URL https://brill.com/view/journals/ehmh/79/2/article-p227_002.xml

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