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But in Nightingale's time, the British military at least had the excuse that the age of modern medicine, with its emphasis on sterility and proper ventilation of hospital rooms, was only just dawning.
Why not choose the one that is closest to the nightingale?
McCain's story has been told well before, namely by Robert Timberg in The Nightingale's Song , a 1995 book about five Naval Academy graduates.
(Benedict Nightingale, the London Times ). However, some critics dismiss the project as a corny, nostalgia-heavy tourist trap, "an Elizabethan theme park" (Roy Hattersley, the Guardian ). (Click here for the Globe's site.)
(As Strachey makes clear, Nightingale's fake "lady with the lamp" image as the mother of modern nursing completely obscures her real significance, which was as a ruthlessly effective administrative reformer, first of a single military hospital and later of the entire British military-hospital system.)