Women in Medicine
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- Women in Medicine
- Nursing
- Bad reputation - for drinking
- No qualifications
- Not for respectable women - unattractive
- Florence Nightingale
- In the Crimea
- Appalled by dirty conditions
- Concentrated on cleaning the hospital and patients
- Wrote to the British government about the conditions and gained supplies
- Death rate fell from 40% to 2%
- After the Crimea
- Newspapers label her 'lady with the lamp'
- 800 page report for the government
- Fresh air, clean supplies and daylight in hospitals - Improved conditions
- Raised money, built a new ward and wrote a book then awarded the order of merit
- Before the Crimean War
- Wealthy family disgusted by nursing career
- Trained in Germany
- Superintendent in London hospital
- In the Crimea
- Doctors
- Elizabeth Garrett was influenced and influenced others by getting qualifications and helping others
- Elizabeth Blackwell trained to be a doctor and came to work in England and had to be accepted as she had the qualifications
- Mary Seacole
- In the Crimea
- Set up her 'British hotel' giving wounded soldiers food and drink and bandaged wounds
- Bravery - helped the wounded whilst fighting continued
- Highly respected amongst the soldiers
- After the Crimea
- Returned with no money
- Newspapers tried to raise money for her but were unsuccessful because of Florence Nightingale stories
- No one tried to use her ideas
- Before the Crimea
- Knowledgeable healer and midwife in Jamaica
- More experience from cholera outbreak and gunshot wounds
- Volunteered in Britain but not accepted because of skin colour
- In the Crimea
- Nursing
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