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Florence Nightingale: Statistician

Naomi Alderman tells how Florence Nightingale saved lives with statistics.

Naomi Alderman tells a little-known story about a rather well-known nurse. Florence Nightingale is famous for mopping the brows of sick and wounded soldiers during the Crimean war. Generations of Nightingale Nurses are named after her. But according to her sister Parthenope: 'she was a shocking nurse'. She was the lady of the lamp but the light she cast wasn't the light of the nurse's lantern; it was the light of statistics. This is the story of Florence Nightingale, the intellectual pioneer and revered statistician.

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28 minutes

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Wed 24 Aug 2016 15:30

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  • Wed 18 May 2016 21:00
  • Wed 24 Aug 2016 15:30

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