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Who had the greater influence on the training of women within medicine after 1850 – Nightingale, Garrett-Anderson or Seacole?
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Who had the greater influence on the training of women within medicine after 1850 - Nightingale, Garrett-Anderson or Seacole? The Three women who had the greatest influence on the training of women within medicine after 1850 were Florence Nightingale, Elizabeth Garrett-Anderson and Mary Seacole. Nightingale and Seacole were nurses, whereas Garrett-Anderson was a doctor. Despite the fact that all three of them were involved in medicine and influenced it, they were all different. There maybe some similarities between the women, but there are also some significant differences. For example, Nightingale and Seacole both went to the Crimean War, however, Seacole and Garrett-Anderson were never invited, unlike Nightingale. Nightingale and Garrett-Anderson were both from middle-class families whereas Seacole was from poorer background. But do these factors make them more influential in Medicine? Florence Nightingale was the medical hero of the Crimean War. Nightingale was born into a middle-class family in 1820,...
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