Demonstrates Nightingale's astute use of the political process and report on her correspondence with royalty, viceroys and leaders, including such notables as Queen Victoria and W E Gladstone. This book confirms Nightingale as a significant nineteenth-century scholar and illustrate how she integrated her scholarship with political activism.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- 610.73092
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
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- 0889203873 9781554582884
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- RT37.N5
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- A2 2001 v16
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- 1 electronic text (974 p.)
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- Canada
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgments 8
- Dramatis Personae 10
- List of Illustrations 11
- Florence Nightingale: A Précis of Her Life 12
- An Introduction to Volume 16 16
- The Need for Hospital Reform 24
- The Pavilion Principle 28
- Nurses’ Working and Living Conditions 33
- Germ Theory, Contagion and Infection 38
- Chronology of Nightingale’s Work on Hospital Reform 49
- Key to Editing 52
- Notes on Hospitals 56
- Notes on Hospitals, 1st and 2nd editions 1858 and 1859 58
- [Sixteen Sanitary Defects in the Construction of Hospital Wards] 75
- Note on the Hospital Plans 87
- Notes on Hospitals, 3rd edition 1863 94
- 1. Sanitary Condition of Hospitals 98
- 2. Defects in Existing Hospital Plans and Construction 116
- 3. Principles of Hospital Construction 139
- 4. Improved Hospital Plans 163
- 5. Convalescent Hospitals 179
- 6. Children’s Hospitals 186
- 7. Indian Military Hospitals 193
- 8. Hospitals for Soldiers’ Wives and Children 210
- 9. Hospital Statistics 211
- B. Proposal for Improved Statistics of Surgical Operations 225
- Nomenclature of Operations 230
- Appendix on Different Systems of Hospital Nursing 233
- Distribution, Reviews and Response to Notes on Hospitals 239
- Military Hospitals: Letters, Notes, Articles and Reports 246
- Military Hospitals: Letters, Notes, Articles and Reports 248
- Nightingale’s Articles on Netley 280
- A Contribution to the Sanitary History of the British Army 348
- Gordon Boys’ Home, 1885-90 490
- Civil Hospitals: Letters and Notes 510
- Civil Hospitals: Letters and Notes 512
- List of Civil Hospitals on which Nightingale Advised 514
- The Lisbon Children’s Hospital, 1859-60 539
- Glasgow Royal Infirmary, 1859-61 547
- ‘‘Hospital Statistics and Hospital Plans’’ 575
- ‘‘Winchester Infirmary,’’ Hampshire County Hospital, 1858-64 600
- Midlands Hospitals, 1860-67 636
- Buckinghamshire Infirmary, Aylesbury, 1859-69 653
- Malta Civil Hospitals, 1862-65 676
- Swansea General Hospital, 1864-65 688
- Derby Infirmary, 1864-69 720
- Workhouse Infirmaries, 1865-68 736
- Sydney Infirmary (Prince Alfred Hospital), 1866-69 and 1874 751
- Convalescent and Cottage Hospitals, 1857-74 769
- St. Thomas’ Hospital, 1859-74 790
- Wellow School, 1872-74 813
- Children’s Hospitals, 1874-76 818
- Montreal General Hospital, 1874-76 824
- Typhoid Epidemic in Bangor, 1882 850
- St Marylebone Workhouse Infirmary Nurses’ Home Addition, 1882-83 855
- Children’s Hospitals, 1879-81 866
- Convalescent and Cottage Hospitals, 1877-89 879
- Liverpool Royal Infirmary, 1882-85 888
- Women’s Hospital, Euston Road, 1888 899
- Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, 1888-89 906
- ‘‘Hospitals’’ in Chambers’s Encyclopaedia, 1889-90 923
- Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, 1891-94 933
- Metropolitan Fever Hospitals, 1893-95 942
- Miscellaneous Last Work on Hospital Reform, from 1890 948
- Appendix 964
- Appendix A: Biographical Sketches 964
- Bibliography 969
- Index 977
- A 977
- B 978
- C 979
- D 980
- E 980
- F 980
- G 981
- H 982
- I 982
- J 983
- K 983
- L 983
- M 983
- N 984
- O 984
- P 985
- Q 985
- R 985
- S 986
- T 987
- U 988
- V 988
- W 988
- Y 989
- Z 989
