title: The first professional.
abstract: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE (1820-1910) is known as a major founder of the modern nursing profession, and an expert on hospitals and public health. Some attention has been paid to her work in applied statistics but little to her expertise in methodology, philosophy, theology, social reform and militarism, or her extensive writings on India and more than modest commentaries on women's issues.
authors.affiliation: University of Guelph, Ontario, is project director and editor in chief of The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale.
authors.forename: Lynn
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: McDonald