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Autore |
Nightingale Florence <1820-1910.> |
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Florence Nightingale on health in India [[electronic resource] /] / Gérard Vallée, editor, and Lynn McDonald, general editor |
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Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2006 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-50153-4 |
9786612501531 |
1-55458-112-5 |
1-4356-2840-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (1049 p.) |
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Collana |
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The collected works of Florence Nightingale ; ; v. 9 |
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McDonaldLynn <1940-> |
ValléeGérard <1933-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Medical care - India - History - 19th century |
Public health - India - History - 19th century |
Sanitation - India - History - 19th century |
Great Britain Armed Forces India Medical care History 19th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references: p. 997-1003. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Dramatis Personae; List of Illustrations; Florence Nightingale: A Précis of Her Life; Nightingale's Work on India; Key to Editing; Introduction to Volume 9; The Royal Commission on India; Implementation of the Royal Commission's Recommendations; Famine Prevention and Irrigation; Sanitation and the Prevention of Epidemics; Nursing in India; Appendix A: Biographical Sketches; Appendix B: The War and India Offices; Bibliography; Index |
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Volume 9: Florence Nightingale on Health in India is the first of two volumes reporting Nightingale's forty years of work to improve public health in India. It begins with her work to establish the Royal Commission on the Sanitary State of the Army in India, for which she drafted questionnaires, analyzed returns, and did much of the final writing, going on to promote the implementation of its recommendations. In this volume a gradual shift of attention can be seen from the health of the army to that of the civilian population. Famine and epidemics were frequent and closely interrela |
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