Volume 15 of the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Wars and the War Office, picks up on the previous volume’s recounting of Nightingale’s famous work during the Crimean War and the comprehensive analysis she did on its high death rates. This volume moves on to the implementation of the recommendations that emerged from that research and to her work to reduce deaths in the next wars, beginning with the American Civil War.
Nightingale’s writings describe the creation of the Army Medical School, the vast improvements made in the statistical tracking of disease, and new measures for soldiers’ welfare. Her role in the formulation of the first Geneva Convention in 1864 is related, along with her concern that voluntary relief efforts through the Red Cross not make war “cheap.”
Nightingale was decorated by both sides for her work in the Franco-Prussian War. While much of her work concerned the mundane sending out of supplies, we see also in her writing her emerging interest in militarism as the cause of war. Her opposition to the Afghan War (of her time) and her work to provide nursing for the Egyptian campaigns, the Zulu War, and the start of the Boer War are also included.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 355.3/450941
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- General Note
- picks up on the previous volume's recounting of Nightingale's famous work during the Crimean War and the comprehensive analysis she did on its high death rates. This volume moves on to the implementation of recommendations that emerged from that research and to her work to reduce deaths in the next wars, beginning with the American Civil War"--Cover p. [4] Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9781554583829 9780889204706
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- UH495.G7
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- N54 2011eb
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- 1 electronic text (xii, 1060 p.)
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- Canada
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Table of Contents
- Couverture 1
- THE COLLECTED WORKS OF FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE 4
- Copyright 6
- CONTENTS 7
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 9
- DRAMATIS PERSONAE 10
- FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE: A PRÉCIS OF HER LIFE 11
- AN INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME 15 15
- Nightingale’s Approach to War 20
- KEY TO EDITING 23
- ARMY NURSING IN PEACE AND IN WAR 27
- Subsidiary Notes as to the Introduction of Female Nursing into Military Hospitals in Peace and in War 40
- WAR OFFICE REFORM IN PEACETIME 273
- Army Hospitals 275
- ‘‘Army Sanitary Administration under the Late Lord Herbert’’ 354
- The Formation and Early Years of the Army Medical School 380
- Soldiers’ Welfare 439
- WARS FROM THE GENEVA CONVENTION TO THE BOER WAR 597
- The Geneva Convention and Red Cross 597
- The American Civil War 606
- The Franco-Prussian War 617
- The Austro-Prussian War 629
- The ‘‘Eastern Question’’: Turkey, Russia and the Balkan Wars 844
- The Second Afghan War 1878-80 853
- The Anglo-Zulu and Transvaal Wars 866
- The Egyptian Campaigns 919
- Egypt and Sudan in 1885 978
- The Boer War 1899-1902 1035
- Last Work and a Retrospective on War and Militarism 1044
- APPENDIX A: (BRIEF) BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 1047
- (1) Nurses and Volunteer Aid Workers (in Alphabetical Order) 1047
- (2) Directors General of the Army Medical Department (in Chronological Order) 1053
- BIBLIOGRAPHY 1055
- INDEX 1059
- BACK COVER 1075
