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A General Look At Florence Nightingale's Nursing Teachings Andher Contribution To Feminist Ideology
Ebru ÇEVİK,a Ayşe TAPUCU,a Dr.Şahin AKSOYb
aHarran Üniversitesi Sağlık YüksekokulubDeontoloji ve Tıp Tarihi AD, Harran Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, ŞANLIURFA
Patient care has been existed since the ancient ages. Because the diseases have always been existed and patients have needed tretment and care. Patient care had been under the influence of religions in different periods of the history. And patient care lost its importance with the shaken authority of the religions. The evolvement of patient care into modern nursing had realized at the beginning of 20th century with the efforts of Florence Nightingale. Florence Nightingale's teaching had brought the status of patient care from a lower class practice into a distinguished people's profession. She did not work only in her country but travelled to other countries including Turkey in the Kirim War. Beside that, Nightingale had worked a lot to increase the status of women in a very disadvantage time of Victorian Era.We examined Florence Nightingale's nursing teachings and addressed her contribution to feminist theory in this article.Keywords: Florence Nightingale, nursing, feminismTurkiye Klinikleri J Med Ethics 2004, 12:177-182
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