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Florence Nightingale : the courageous life of the legendary nurse
\"A biography for young adult readers on Florence Nightingale, the pioneering nurse best known for her work during the Crimean War, where she rectified horrifying conditions and made nightly rounds to check on patients, saving hundreds of lives and sparking worldwide healthcare reform\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Astrid Lindgren and the Nightingale’s Song
Theme: Motherhood and Mothering. Ill. ©Stina Wirsén
This article analyzes the nightingale motif in Swedish author Astrid Lindgren’s short story “Spelar min lind, sjunger min näktergal” (“My Nightingale is Singing”), first published in her collection Sunnanäng (The Red Bird, 1959). The lineage of the motif is traced back to ancient Greek folklore, where the nightingale’s lament symbolizes maternal grief over the loss of a child. It is argued that Lindgren’s story can be interpreted as a modern reimagining of a specific strand in the mythological tradition surrounding the rape of Philomela and the infanticide committed by Procne to avenge her sister. Lindgren alludes to a version of the story found in fable collections, which centers on the reunion of the two sisters after their metamorphosis into birds. In the Greek myth, especially as it was interpreted by Romantic writers, a bereaved mother is transformed into the nightingale, eternally lamenting her loss and thereby transfiguring human suffering into beauty. In Lindgren’s story, Malin longs to bring beauty to the bleak world of the orphanage, first miraculously causing a linden tree to grow in its yard, but ultimately giving her spirit to the tree, where it is heard in the song of a nightingale among its branches. “Spelar min lind, sjunger min näktergal” thus represents Lindgren’s innovative culmination of a long fable tradition with pre-classical origins, where the child becomes the agent of transformation.
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ICD-11
The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is a health statistics coding tool that aims to describe an entity that is challenging to quantify and even more problematic to standardise—the human condition. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder's updated description states that the symptoms no longer have to occur within fixed age range to lead to diagnosis. Compulsive sexual behaviour was included as an impulse control disorder, following a decade-long debate about whether this condition should be listed as a mental or behavioural condition.
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Florence Nightingale
A biography that \"explains how [Nightingale] bucked societal pressure to become a nurse--the Lady with the Lamp--[and how her] work in military hospitals during the Crimean War was the beginning of great reforms in hospitals all over the world\"--Amazon.com.
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Florence Nightingale, the Colossus: Was She a Feminist?
Nightingale displayed a particular brand of feminism that reflected the circumstances of her era. The question of women's involvement in healthcare is addressed through an analysis of Nightingale's most famous work, Notes on Nursing. What it is, and what it is not (1859/60). Then other key works are scrutinised with reference to ideas about female involvement in healthcare and how she addresses the position of women in general terms. (2) Nightingale's works, Notes on Hospitals (1859); Suggestions for Thought to the Searchers after Truth among the Artisans of England (1860); Introductory Notes on Lying-In Institutions (1871) are focussed upon illustrating her views on women's involvement in healthcare and answering the overarching question: was and how was she feminist? (3)
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