As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Born into Victorian Britain's elite, a brilliant, magnetic teenager decided to devote her life to becoming a nurse.
By creating a career for women that empowered them with economic independence, Florence Nightingale stands among the founders of modern feminism" Growing up in a wealthy family that believed nursing wasn't a respectable job, Florence Nightingale was determined to help others.
After more than sixty years of service as a nurse, she had helped to make nursing an honorable profession, left behind safer, cleaner hospitals, and saved countless lives. Skip to content. Florence Nightingale The Crimean War. Florence Nightingale. Florence Nightingale Book Review:. A Brief History of Florence Nightingale. The Biography of Florence Nightingale. The Life of Florence Nightingale.
Author : Sarah A. Florence Nightingale Notes on Hospitals. Notes on Hospitals Book Review:. Nightingales Book Review:. Florence Nightingale A Biography. Florence Nightingale At First Hand. Florence Nightingale Feminist. Florence Nightingale Feminist Book Review:.
Florence Nightingale the Angel of the Crimea. Extensive databases, notably a chronology and a names index, will also be published in electronic form, again permitting convenient access to persons interested not only in Nightingale but in other figures of the time. Love, murder, betrayal, political intrigue -- all are present in this engaging new book about Hamilton's past. Street names offer a unique, meandering path through Hamilton's fascinating past, full of curious biographical culs-de-sac and occasional sweeping historical vistas.
Hamilton Street Names includes more than routes in the new city. Each alphabetically organized entry offers fascinating insights into the city's social, political, cultural or military history.
Nightingale would spend the rest of her life promoting the establishment and development of the nursing profession and organizing it into its modern form. During her bedridden years, she also made pioneering work in the field of hospital planning, and her work propagated quickly across England and the world. Nightingale's work served as an inspiration for nurses in the American Civil War. The Union government approached her for advice in organizing field medicine.
Although her ideas met official resistance, they inspired the volunteer body of United States Sanitary Commission. By Nightingale nurses had a growing and influential presence in the embryonic nursing profession. In she became the first woman to be awarded the Order of Merit. In she was given the Honorary Freedom of the City of London.
By Florence Nightingale was bedridden. She may have had what is now known as chronic fatigue syndrome and her birthday is now celebrated as the international CFS awareness day. She died on August 13, The offer of burial in Westminster Abbey was declined by her relatives, and she is buried in the graveyard at St. Margaret Church in East Wellow, Hampshire. Florence Nightingale had exhibited a gift for mathematics from an early age and excelled in the subject under the tutorship of her father.
She had a special interest in statistics, a field in which her father was an expert, and was a pioneer in the nascent field of epidemiology. She made extensive use of statistical analysis in the compilation, analysis and presentation of statistics on medical care and public health.
During the Crimean War, Nightingale invented a diagram she called the coxcomb or polar area chart , equivalent to a modern circular histogram or rose diagram, to illustrate seasonal sources of patient mortality in the military field hospital she managed. These were essentially the first contributions to circular statistics.
She made extensive use of the coxcomb to present reports on the nature and magnitude of the conditions of medical care in the Crimean War to Members of Parliament and civil servants who would have been unlikely to read or understand traditional statistical reports. As such, she was a pioneer in the visual presentation of information, also called information graphics she began the development of the pie chart , and has earned high respect in the field of information ecology.
In her later life Nightingale made a comprehensive statistical study of sanitation in Indian rural life and was the leading figure in the introduction of improved medical care and public health service in India. In Nightingale was elected the first female member of the Royal Statistical Society and she later became an honorary member of the American Statistical Association.
While better known for her contributions in the medical and mathematical fields, Nightingale is also an important link in the study of English feminism. During and , she was struggling with her self-definition and the expectations of an upper-class marriage from her family. As she sorted out her thoughts, she wrote Suggestions for Thought to Searchers after Religious Truth. The three-volumbe book has never been printed in its entirety, but a section, called Cassandra , was published by Ray Strachey in Strachey included it in The Cause , a history of the women's movement.
Apparently, the writing served the original purpose of sorting out thoughts; Nightingale left soon after to train at the Institute for deaconesses at Kaiserwerth. Cassandra portests the over-feminization fo women into near helplessness, such as Nightingale saw in her mother and older sister's lethargic lifestyle, despite their education. She rejected their life of comfort for the world of social service. The work also reflects her fear of her ideas being ineffective, as were Cassandra's.
Cassandra is a virgin-priestess of Apollo who receives a divinely-inspired prophecy, but her prophetic warnings go unheeded. 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.
It is not generally known, however, that Nightingale was at the forefront of the religious, philosophical, and scientific though of her time. In a three-volume work that was never published, Nightingale presented her radical spiritual views, motivated by the desire to give those who had turned away from conventional religion an alternative to atheism.
In this volume Michael D. Calabria and Janet A. Macrae provide the essence of Nightingale's spiritual philosophy by selecting and reorganizing her best-written treatments. The editors have also provided an introduction and commentary to set the work into a biographical, historical, and philosophical context.
This volume illuminates a little-known dimension of Nightingale's personality, bringing forth the ideas that served as the guiding principles of her work.
0コメント