"Nursing the Modern World: Florence Nightingale and Mary Baker Eddy's Legacies"

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How do we care for ourselves? How do we care for one another? How do we care for our world? These questions have always penetrated to the heart of the human experience, but, perhaps, never more so than today. Over a century ago, Mary Baker Eddy and Florence Nightingale plunged with total immersion of heart, mind, and soul to search for answers to these questions. Out of their personal, scientific, as well as spiritual explorations, they embarked on careers that revolutionized perspectives on the potential for healing in our modern world. Nightingale would become the pioneer of modern nursing; Eddy would lead a thought and spiritual movement that enlarged understanding of the relationship of mind and body and the connection of consciousness to health.

Acclaimed authority on Florence Nightingale and holistic nursing scholar, Barbara Dossey, joined Christian Science teacher and practitioner, Giulia A. Nesi, to survey Nightingale’s and Eddy’s lives and deepest-held beliefs, and to discuss how their respective commitments to the integration of science and spirituality challenge and inspire how we approach caring and healing today.

“Nursing the Modern World: Florence Nightingale and Mary Baker Eddy’s Legacies” built upon last year’s program at the Library on “Nursing’s Spiritual Roots in Contemporary Practice,” in which a distinguished panel of practicing nurses and nursing scholars delved into the spiritual dimensions of healthcare. Participating in that discussion were noted nursing theorist, Jean Watson; nursing professor at West Virginia University, Margaret “Peggy” Burkhardt; and supervisor of Christian Science nursing activities, Linda Kohler. A streaming video of this program is available through the Library's Web site.

Admission was $8 for the general public, $5 for Friends of the Library. A streaming video of the event will be available soon on this Web page.