Florence Nightingale

• 

  Academics Upset At BBC For Labeling Florence Nightingale “Neurotic And Sexually Repressed”

  28 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

  Two BBC-made documentaries on Florence Nightingale are currently being sold in the UK as teaching aids. A group of academics, however, have called for them to be recalled. They claim these films demean Miss Nightingale by portraying her as “a manipulative, neurotic and sexually repressed woman who inadvertently killed troops during the Crimean War through medical error.”

  Continue Reading

• 2oceansvibe Partners

  • 
  • 
  • 
  • 
  • 
  • 
  • 
  • 
  • 
  • 
  • 
  • 
  • 
  • 
  • 
  • 
  • 
  • 
  • 
  • 
  • 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

•