Florence Nightingale on Society and Politics, Philosophy, Science, Education and Literature / Lynn McDonald, editor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910.

Contributor:

McDonald, Lynn, 1940-

Series:

Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910. Collected works of Florence Nightingale ; v. 5.

The collected works of Florence Nightingale ; v. 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910.

Nightingale, Florence.

Nurses--England--Biography.

Nurses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 871 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Florence Nightingale on Society and Politics, Philosophy, Science, Education and Literature, Volume 5 in the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, is the main source of Nightingale's work on the methodology of social science and her views on social reform. Here we see how she took her ""call to service"" into practice: by first learning how the laws of God's world operate, one can then determine how to intervene for good. There is material on medical statistics, the census, pauperism and Poor Law reform, the need for income security measures and better housing, on crime, g

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Dramatis Personae; List of Illustrations; Florence Nightingale: A Précis of the Collected Works; Introduction to Volume 5; Key to Editing; Society: Essays, Letters and Notes on Social Physics and Social Statistics; Politics: Essays, Notes and Letters; Philosophy, Science, Education and Literature; Appendixes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610925797

9781280925795

1280925795

9780889207073

0889207070

OCLC:

230181334