work help: Can anybody name differences between the work of Mary Seacole and Florence Nightingale, for my history homework? - Help.com

google or wikipedia it

well i know florence nightingale helped out during the war and she died in her sleep.

Mary Seacole was black and because of that she didn’t receive as much funding as any other nurse etc like Florence Nightingale would have.

They both helped out in the crimean war.. i can’t remember alot but i do remeber doing this assignment for school ;/

sorry

Florence Nightingale was far more of a politician than a nurse. Her actual active nursing taking up far less time than the many years of lobbying and campaigning which followed.
She opposed the professionalisation of nurses and refused to believe that contagious bacterium caused diseases like Typhoid which were rife among the soldiers in the military hospitals, like the one she worked in Scutari during the Crimean war. Her hospital was in actual fact sited over a sewer, she believed that some illnesses were caused by miasma or bad air.
Mary Seacole was on the other hand, at total odds to this. She was in the firing line despite her advancing middle age tending to the dead and dying where they lay.
The fact that Mary Seacole was so overlooked is a testament to the racism and attitudes of the Victorian upper classes…and a tragedy.
Nursing, particularly nursing in the UK has been saddled with an outmoded model of part servitude part ‘angel’ ever since. In fact, international nurses day (May the 5th is on the anniversary of Flo’s birth).
Personally I’d far rather remember Mary Seacole. The RCN website or offices may be able to help you with further info?