The Nightingale imperative / Sioban Nelson -- Navigating the political straits in the Crimean War / Carol Helmstadter -- The dream of nursing the empire / Judith Godden -- Rhetoric and reality in America / Joan E. Lynaugh -- Mythologizing and de-mythologizing / Lynn McDonald -- The passionate statistician / M. Eileen Magnello -- An icon and iconoclast for today / Anne Marie Rafferty and Rosemary Wall.