Florence Nightingale and the Medical Men : Working Together for Health Care Reform / Lynn McDonald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McDonald, Lynn, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health care reform--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Health care reform.

Hospital care--Great Britain--Safety measures--History--19th century.

Hospital care.

Mentoring in medicine--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Mentoring in medicine.

Nursing--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Nursing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : 2 tables, 1 chart

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Florence Nightingale is known as a hospital reformer, a social reformer, and the founder of professional nursing; few realize that she worked closely with doctors on these issues. As Nightingale’s first supporters and colleagues, doctors contributed to reducing the high death rates in Crimean War hospitals and learned from the consequential reforms.Beginning with an overview of Nightingale’s life and continuing with an exploration of her Crimean War work with army doctors, her post-Crimea work with civilian doctors, and her collaborations with the peacetime army and with army doctors in later wars, Lynn McDonald details the involvement of doctors in Nightingale’s legacy. At a time when hospitals’ death rates were universally high (including at top teaching hospitals), Nightingale formed connections with leading public health doctors and produced heavily cited work on safer hospital design. Her later writings cover her relations with early women doctors and the controversy over state regulation of nurses, bacteriology, and germ theory; here, McDonald argues against flawed secondary literature and the myth of Nightingale’s lifelong opposition to germ theory. The final chapter discusses the legendary nurse’s enduring legacy.Florence Nightingale and the Medical Men provides timely insight into Nightingale’s principles of disease prevention, data visualization, and the impacts of high disease and death rates – issues that persist in the global health crises of the twenty-first century.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Figure and Tables

Preface

Dramatis Personae

The Life and Times of Florence Nightingale

Introduction

Close Working Relationships (1850s–1880)

Trial by Fire

Work with Civilian Doctors (1857–1880)

Military Medicine in Peacetime and Later Wars

Reimagining Hospitals and Women's Medicine

Safer Hospitals by Design

Midwifery and Women in Medicine

Later Campaigns (1880s and 1890s)

Writing for Doctors, Rural Health Visitors, State Registration of Nurses, Bacteriology, and Germ Theory

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Aug 2023)

ISBN:

0-2280-1319-4

OCLC:

1296688466