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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810057603321

Autore

Nightingale Florence <1820-1910.>

Titolo

Florence Nightingale on society and politics, philosophy, science, education and literature / / Lynn McDonald, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ont. : , : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, , 2003

©2003

ISBN

1-280-92579-5

9786610925797

0-88920-707-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 871 pages)

Collana

The collected works of Florence Nightingale ; ; v. 5

Altri autori (Persone)

McDonaldLynn <1940->

Disciplina

361.92

Soggetti

Nurses - England

Great Britain Politics and government 1837-1901

Great Britain Civilization 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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