Sioban Nelson is Dean and Professor at the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto. She is coeditor of The Complexities of Care: Nursing Reconsidered, also from Cornell. Anne Marie Rafferty is Dean of the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College, London. Rachel Verney is Visiting Associate at the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery.

• Forewordby Rachel VerneyIntroductionby Sioban Nelson and Anne Marie Rafferty1. The Nightingale Imperativeby Sioban Nelson2. Navigating the Political Straits in the Crimean Warby Carol Helmstadter3. The Dream of Nursing the Empireby Judith Godden4. Rhetoric and Reality in Americaby Joan E. Lynaugh5. Mythologizing and De-mythologizingby Lynn McDonald6. The Passionate Statisticianby M. Eileen Magnello7. An Icon and Iconoclast for Todayby Anne Marie Rafferty and Rosemary WallNotesContributorsIndex

"Notes on Nightingale is an extraordinary achievement, bringing together some of the world's most eminent Nightingale scholars. It explodes myths, develops sophisticated lines of analysis, and reveals the full range of achievement of one of the world’s most iconic figures. In doing so, it also provides a lens through which we might view that most elusive of modern arts: nursing."

Sioban Nelson is Dean and Professor at the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto. She is coeditor of The Complexities of Care: Nursing Reconsidered, also from Cornell. Anne Marie Rafferty is Dean of the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College, London. Rachel Verney is Visiting Associate at the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery.

• Forewordby Rachel VerneyIntroductionby Sioban Nelson and Anne Marie Rafferty1. The Nightingale Imperativeby Sioban Nelson2. Navigating the Political Straits in the Crimean Warby Carol Helmstadter3. The Dream of Nursing the Empireby Judith Godden4. Rhetoric and Reality in Americaby Joan E. Lynaugh5. Mythologizing and De-mythologizingby Lynn McDonald6. The Passionate Statisticianby M. Eileen Magnello7. An Icon and Iconoclast for Todayby Anne Marie Rafferty and Rosemary WallNotesContributorsIndex

"Notes on Nightingale is an extraordinary achievement, bringing together some of the world's most eminent Nightingale scholars. It explodes myths, develops sophisticated lines of analysis, and reveals the full range of achievement of one of the world’s most iconic figures. In doing so, it also provides a lens through which we might view that most elusive of modern arts: nursing."

Sioban Nelson is Dean and Professor at the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto. She is coeditor of The Complexities of Care: Nursing Reconsidered, also from Cornell. Anne Marie Rafferty is Dean of the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College, London. Rachel Verney is Visiting Associate at the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery.

• Forewordby Rachel VerneyIntroductionby Sioban Nelson and Anne Marie Rafferty1. The Nightingale Imperativeby Sioban Nelson2. Navigating the Political Straits in the Crimean Warby Carol Helmstadter3. The Dream of Nursing the Empireby Judith Godden4. Rhetoric and Reality in Americaby Joan E. Lynaugh5. Mythologizing and De-mythologizingby Lynn McDonald6. The Passionate Statisticianby M. Eileen Magnello7. An Icon and Iconoclast for Todayby Anne Marie Rafferty and Rosemary WallNotesContributorsIndex

"Notes on Nightingale is an extraordinary achievement, bringing together some of the world's most eminent Nightingale scholars. It explodes myths, develops sophisticated lines of analysis, and reveals the full range of achievement of one of the world’s most iconic figures. In doing so, it also provides a lens through which we might view that most elusive of modern arts: nursing."