Abstract
This book describes and analyzes the professional career of Ms Edith de Magalhães Fraenkel, founder and the first dean of the University of São Paulo, School of Nursing (USPSN) and her immense legacy to the Brazilian Nursing, based on articles, reports and other official documents, besides the personal testimony of alumnae and the author, Dr Amália Correa de Carvalho, who worked very clos…