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Life and Legacy – The Passion and the Embrace
by Timothy Haas
“The explicit purpose of this book is to celebrate and commemorate the 200th anniversary of Nightingale' s birth in 1820. To be frank, for a time it seemed almost frivolous to be composing such a work in the midst of a pandemic, almost one hundred years since the previous scourge - the Spanish flu outbreak. But then I was reminded that a great deal of what Nightingale preached was what we need to survive this virus, if possible.
If I were living in Cox's Bazar with the Rohingya refugees, who have access to no running water, primitive sanitation, and are all so crowded together, I should be very frightened. It is no better situated than the barrack conditions for soldiers in Nightingale's experience.
This essay is not intended to be a personal memoir, even though there are a number of detailed exemplars from my experiences, along with some questions that perhaps call for revisiting. The clear purpose was always to celebrate the enormous debt we owe Florence Nightingale and her successors, who have continued and nurtured such a wonderful tradition of healing work.”
Life and Legacy – The Passion and the Embrace
by Timothy Haas
“The explicit purpose of this book is to celebrate and commemorate the 200th anniversary of Nightingale' s birth in 1820. To be frank, for a time it seemed almost frivolous to be composing such a work in the midst of a pandemic, almost one hundred years since the previous scourge - the Spanish flu outbreak. But then I was reminded that a great deal of what Nightingale preached was what we need to survive this virus, if possible.
If I were living in Cox's Bazar with the Rohingya refugees, who have access to no running water, primitive sanitation, and are all so crowded together, I should be very frightened. It is no better situated than the barrack conditions for soldiers in Nightingale's experience.
This essay is not intended to be a personal memoir, even though there are a number of detailed exemplars from my experiences, along with some questions that perhaps call for revisiting. The clear purpose was always to celebrate the enormous debt we owe Florence Nightingale and her successors, who have continued and nurtured such a wonderful tradition of healing work.”