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But Florence Nightingale was not intimidated by the attitude of the military officers and she decided to fight with all weapons: she contacted the Times and reported the situation in army hospitals, thus forcing the British Army to reorganize their hospitals. Her contribution to the military hospitals paid off when, by improving the quality of sanitation, the number of dead patients was reduced considerably.

Florence Nightingale was a strong supporter of women's rights, believing that women should be able to pursuit carriers. Although a strong supporter of health improvement policies, "Nightingale preferred working behind the scenes to get laws changed and disapproved of women making speeches in public" (Florence Nightingale). Although she was a dedicated nurse and although she was confronted with many prejudices in her work, Florence Nightingale was not a feminist and in fact she was very much adapted to the time and society she was living in. Invited to join a campaign supporting women doctors, Florence Nightingale declined, as she believed that the role of women was better achieved as a nurse, not as a doctor.
Nightingale's achievements in nursing, hospital administration and statistics were great, but they were even more important because she was a woman living in an all-men society. Florence Nightingale was the first female fellow of the British Statistical Society, but she "recognized the political clout of effective communication; therefore, she recruited men to serve as her delegates in promoting her many causes" (Ferguson, 2004).

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On her own terms, in her own time. Florence Nightingale as seen by the ones who knew her best, review by Zac Unger, September 5, 2004, http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/a/2004/09/05/RVGQB8FO1N1.DTL;Last retrieved on January 20, 2007

Ferguson, Maureen, Florence Nightingale - Ahead of Her Time, 2004, on http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3980/is_200404/ai_n9380104.Last retrieved on January 20, 2007.....

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