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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... India , and one volume on hospital reform , each dealing with her reform work in those particular areas ( see the list of volumes for the entire Collected Works ) . Women reports Nightin- gale's reform work on the regulation of ...
... India . Correspondence with and notes on Richard Monckton Milnes ( poet , philanthropist and politician , as well as her former suitor ) are also related here . There are shorter sections on politicians , Liberal and Conservative ...
... India and the British Kingdom . " If I were to put " Scavengeress for India and the United Kingdom , ” it would be near the truth , but what shall I do ? What shall I return ? ( In a return I had to make at the beginning of the year the ...
... India . There are pointed questions on British management of the Indian economy , with strong hints as to the desirability of more local control . Although the questions are as sharp as ever , their style of presenta- tion is more ...
... India . And perhaps I had better ask you kindly to consider first what I have now written to your three ques- tions : how to find the ( 1 ) money , ( 2 ) man , ( 3 ) facts . But indeed we discussed almost everything in your note . ever ...
Contents
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Essays Notes and Letters | 277 |
Philosophy Science Education and Literature | 549 |
Appendixes | 825 |
Bibliography | 839 |
Index | 849 |