Florence Nightingale: The Crimean War

Name: Florence Nightingale: The Crimean War
Brand: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
SKU: 9781554587476
Price: 76.99 EUR
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ISBN: 978-1-554-58747-6

Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 14

de Lynn McDonald (éditeur)

Maison d'édition : Wilfrid Laurier University Press

janvier 2011

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Résumé

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.

Auteur

Lynn McDonald (Edité par)

Lynn McDonald, director of the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, is university professor emerita at the University of Guelph. She is an environmentalist, a former member of parliament, a former president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, and a long-time activist on womens issues. She has an honorary doctorate from York University.