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Florence Nightingale: The Crimean War

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Florence Nightingale: The Crimean War

Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 14
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Florence Nightingale is famous as the ""lady with the lamp"" in the Crimean War, 1854 - 56. There is a massive amount of literature on this work, but, as editor Lynn McDonald shows, it is often erroneous, and films and press reporting on it have been even less accurate. The Crimean War reports on Nightingale's correspondence from the war hospitals and on the staggering amount of work she did post-war to ensure that the appalling death rate from disease (higher than that from bullets) did not recur. This volume contains much on Nightingale's efforts to achieve real reforms. Her well-known, and relatively ""sanitized"", evidence to the royal commission on the war is compared with her confidential, much franker, and very thorough Notes on the Health of the British Army, where the full horrors of disease and neglect are laid out, with the names of those responsible.

Author Biography:

Lynn McDonald is a professor of sociology at the University of Guelph, Ontario, a former president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, Canadas largest womens organisation, and a former Member of Parliament. She herself has been a public health advocate. As a Member of the Canadian Parliament, she succeeded in getting the Non-smokers Health Act adopted in 1988 as a private members bill. It not only made Parliamentary history (aside from the fact that McDonald was the first Ms in the House of Commons) but it also made Canada a leader in the tobacco wars. She is the author of several books on women theorists.
Release date NZ
December 30th, 2010
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributor
  • Edited by Lynn McDonald
Pages
1096
Dimensions
1x234x53
ISBN-13
9780889204690
Product ID
2245348

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