Florence Nightingale, the crimean war. Collected works of Florence Nightingale. Volume 14. / Lynn McDonald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McDonald, Lynn, 1940- author.

Series:

Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910. Collected works of Florence Nightingale ; v. 14.

Collected works of Florence Nightingale ; v. 14

Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crimean War, 1853-1856--Health aspects.

Crimean War, 1853-1856.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1097 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2010]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Florence Nightingale is famous as the ""lady with the lamp"" in the Crimean War, 1854-56. There is a massive amount of literature on this work, but, as editor Lynn McDonald shows, it is often erroneous, and films and press reporting on it have been even less accurate. The Crimean War reports on Nightingale's correspondence from the war hospitals and on the staggering amount of work she did post-war to ensure that the appalling death rate from disease (higher than that from bullets) did not recur. This volume contains much on Nightingale's efforts to achieve real reforms. He

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Chronology of the Crimean War and Nightingale's Work

Background on the Crimean War

Medical Science at the Time of the Crimean War

Investigations of the Crimean War

Secondary Sources on Nightingale and the Crimean War

Key to Editing

Letters from the Crimean War

Preparations, Departure and Travel

1855

1856

On Return from the Crimean War

1857-58

Nightingale's Reports on the Crimean War

Notes on the Health of the British Army

"Answers to Written Questions"

Promotion and Distribution of the Reports.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786613810267

9781554587476

1554587476

9781282192607

1282192604

9781554582457

1554582458

OCLC:

663714105