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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... Poor Law and Charity .................................. ''A Note on Pauperism ... Relief of Distress .............................................................................. Income Security and Housing for Workers .............
... relief (either by Poor Law or by private almsgiving), hence making two laws on social policy. In both cases she stressed that a finding that current practices were harmful did not mean that nothing should be done (the laissez-faire ...
... law of God. 1. The foundling hospital is the parent of immorality (1:380-85); ... poor little offspring of immorality not die which might have been saved by a ... Poor-Law relieving, distributions of doles by Poor Law or by individual ...
... Poor Law relief do not reduce pauperism, has here become a question for comparative research on the different means for de-pauperization. Her research questions also show her years of work on India. There are pointed questions on ...
... laws; do something, say, about bankruptcy, changes in the Poor Law and popularizing them. FN: Keep clear of criticism at first. Do something. BJ: Another subject, ''the results of statistics.'' What of the Statistical Society? 102 ...
Contents
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Essays Notes and Letters | 277 |
Philosophy Science Education and Literature | 549 |
Appendixes | 825 |
Bibliography | 839 |
Index | 849 |