Florence Nightingale on Society and Politics, Philosophy, Science, Education and Literature: Collected Works of Florence NightingaleFlorence 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, gender and the family. Her comments on a new edition of The Dialogues of Plato are given, with their impact on the revision of the next edition. We see Nightingale’s condemnation of Plato’s “community of wives,” with her stirring approval of love (even outside marriage!), marriage and the family. In this volume also her views on natural science, education and literature are reported. Nightingale was an astute behind-the-scenes political activist. Society and Politics publishes (much of it for the first time) her correspondence with such leading political figures as Queen Victoria, W.E. Gladstone and J.S. Mill. There are notes and essays on public administration and personal observations on various members of royalty, prime ministers and ministers, and Indian viceroys. Nightingale’s support of the vote for women (contrary to much in the secondary literature) is here shown. Correspondence and notes on British general elections from 1834 to 1900 is reported, with letters to and for (Liberal) political candidates and fierce condemnations of Conservatives. Currently, Volumes 1 to 11 are available in e-book version by subscription or from university and college libraries through the following vendors: Canadian Electronic Library, Ebrary, MyiLibrary, and Netlibrary. |
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... Crimean War and War Office Reform Florence Nightingale on War and Militarism Florence Nightingale and Hospital Reform FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE ON SOCIETY AND POLITICS , PHILOSOPHY , SCIENCE.
... war and the death rate from preventible disease was appalling . Nightingale's work as a social reformer began effectively on her return from the Crimean War in 1856. Recognized as a national hero- ine , she shunned publicity to work ...
... Crimean War ( 1854-56 ) , and this volume and Public Health Care support that reputation . The material here serves to show the broader context in which all that work took place and the philosophy which guided it . Nightingale's " call ...
... Crimean War and her fame , and went back to it some time after the publication of the second edition of Physique sociale in 1869. She only finished it on Quetelet's death in 1874 or , possibly , she returned to the work only on his ...
... Crimean War , which was , one could say , providential for the English Army . 88 / FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE ON SOCIETY AND POLITICS.
Contents
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Essays Notes and Letters | 277 |
Philosophy Science Education and Literature | 549 |
Appendixes | 825 |
Bibliography | 839 |
Index | 849 |