Florence Nightingale on Society and Politics, Philosophy, Science, Education and Literature: Collected Works of Florence NightingaleFlorence Nightingale on Society and Politics, Philosophy, Science, Education and Literature, Volume 5 in the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, is the main source of Nightingale’s work on the methodology of social science and her views on social reform. Here we see how she took her “call to service” into practice: by first learning how the laws of God’s world operate, one can then determine how to intervene for good. There is material on medical statistics, the census, pauperism and Poor Law reform, the need for income security measures and better housing, on crime, gender and the family. Her comments on a new edition of The Dialogues of Plato are given, with their impact on the revision of the next edition. We see Nightingale’s condemnation of Plato’s “community of wives,” with her stirring approval of love (even outside marriage!), marriage and the family. In this volume also her views on natural science, education and literature are reported. Nightingale was an astute behind-the-scenes political activist. Society and Politics publishes (much of it for the first time) her correspondence with such leading political figures as Queen Victoria, W.E. Gladstone and J.S. Mill. There are notes and essays on public administration and personal observations on various members of royalty, prime ministers and ministers, and Indian viceroys. Nightingale’s support of the vote for women (contrary to much in the secondary literature) is here shown. Correspondence and notes on British general elections from 1834 to 1900 is reported, with letters to and for (Liberal) political candidates and fierce condemnations of Conservatives. 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. |
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... Galton ( 1822-99 ) , husband of cousin , Royal Engineer , sanitary expert ( Sir ) Edwin Chadwick ( 1800-90 ) , sanitary expert William Farr ( 1807-83 ) , statistician ( Sir ) Francis Galton ( 1822-1911 ) , eugenicist , statistician W.E. ...
... Galton revised it to mere social statistics ) . The term when first used in 1835 as a subtitle reflected Quetelet's 3 Marion Diamond and Mervyn Stone , Journal of the Royal Statistical Society ( Series A ) Pt 2 144 ( 1981 ) : 176-213 ...
... Galton , the eugenics expert and demographer , to formulate the project and give it a public face . Her letter to him 7 February 1891 is a masterpiece , although she herself , at age seventy - one , felt very diffident about her writing ...
... Galton , working through ideas with Benjamin Jowett . In June 1891 she signed off from her attempt with polite thanks to Galton for his efforts . According to Pear- son the correspondence may have influenced Galton himself , for when he ...
... Galton Papers 290. In Karl Pearson , ed . , Life , Letters and Labours of Francis Galton 2 : 416-18 ; draft dated 6 February 1890 in British Library ADD Mss 45810 ff172-78 PRIVATE Dear Sir [ Francis Galton ] 7 February 1891 Sir Douglas ...
Contents
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Essays Notes and Letters | 277 |
Philosophy Science Education and Literature | 549 |
Appendixes | 825 |
Bibliography | 839 |
Index | 849 |