Florence Nightingale: Mystic, Visionary, Healer (Standard Edition) [Hardcover]
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“It is fascinating to read and lovely to look at and would make an exceptional addition to a nursing or personal library. This is a one-of-a-kind, artistic history of the life of a nursing icon.”—Ellen Wurzbach, RN, MSN, PhDfor Doody Review Service
Scientist, philosopher, visionary, mystic, healer, reformer, activist, feminist, politician.
This lavishly illustrated biography celebrates the life and work of Florence Nightingale on the 100th anniversary of her death. With meticulous scholarship, the author documents the struggles and achievements of a woman who defied the conventions and standards of Victorian England to blaze her own path. Archival photographs, drawings, letters, maps, and a riveting narrative create a portrait of this complex, larger than life woman who is still a source of inspiration today.
- Hardcover: 448 pages
- Publisher: F.A. Davis Company; 1 edition (July 30, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0803621698
- ISBN-13: 978-0803621695
- Product Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.5 x 10.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #158,690 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #71 in Books > Textbooks > Medicine & Health Sciences > Medicine > Special Topics > History
This is unquestionably the best biography of Nightingale ever written. The author reminds us that Nightingale was one of the first statisticians -- one of the first members of the statistical society in the U.K. and for many years the only woman member. Nightingale collected and published voluminous statistics about health care (she proved that the rate of childbirth fever was lower among women cared for by midwives vs those cared for by physicians and surmised correctly that the difference was that the midwives washed their hands and established hygiene in the birth chamber. The physicians came to the birth room covered with blood from dissections.) The germ theory of disease had not been developed -- but she was able to reduce the death rate in the hospitals in Crimea by ensuring cleanliness, safe water and good food for the patients.) She was also a suffragist and one of the first signers of a petition in support of suffrage put forward by her
friends, the philosopher John Stuart Mill and his wife Harriet Taylor, who were prominent proponents of women's suffrage. Mill asked Nightingale to dedicate herself to the cause of female suffrage and she replied that there were others as qualified as she; she was needed to reform the British military, hospital and medical systems. Nightingale shook up the British military, hospital and medical establishments. She had many enemies because of her work -- and they became even more virulent when she was proved right. Unfortunately their calumnies persist to this day. While doing the work which first brought her to public attention she contracted Crimean Fever -- a common complaint of those who served in the Crimea War.
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