Barber J A
LaTrobe University.
Collegian. 1999 Jan;6(1):36-9. doi: 10.1016/s1322-7696(08)60314-5.
Florence Nightingale was a prolific writer on many subjects from nursing to religion to hospital design and sanitary statistics. Her writing on the indigenous people of Australia is little known but should be of interest especially to those involved in the present desperate search for ways to improve the health of Australia's first settlers. Nightingale's evidence was second-hand, derived largely from missionaries, especially Bishop Salvado of the Benedictine foundation of New Norcia in Western Australia. This paper reviews the attitudes to Australian Aborigines which emerge from Nightingale's and others' writings and argues that their place in modern nursing is to stimulate a reappraisal of current attitudes to Aboriginal health.
弗洛伦斯·南丁格尔是一位多产的作家，其作品涵盖了从护理到宗教、医院设计和卫生统计等诸多主题。她关于澳大利亚原住民的著作鲜为人知，但尤其应该引起那些致力于寻找改善澳大利亚首批定居者健康状况的绝望方法的人的兴趣。南丁格尔的证据是二手的，主要来自传教士，特别是西澳大利亚新诺西亚本笃会基金会的萨尔瓦多主教。本文回顾了南丁格尔和其他人的著作中所体现的对澳大利亚原住民的态度，并认为它们在现代护理中的地位是促使人们重新审视当前对原住民健康的态度。
