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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... cause of crime in order to advance an explana- tion that would later be called relative deprivation , that is , that people who have become accustomed to a better standard of living and then lose it feel the poverty more than those ...
... cause increases with each recurrence in a far higher ratio than the probability of the recurrence itself . Probabil ... cause and not by chance as two to the millionth power . Opposing causes . That events do happen according to their ...
... causes and only attributing to one cause what belongs to a concourse of many . 4. By comparing elements which are not comparable . 1:83 " All reasonable men , " [ Quetelet ] says , “ will , I think agree on this point that we must ...
... causes : same effects./Alter the causes . Mankind can govern by social laws as he does by physical . But mankind can discover the laws and govern by their means . That is to say that it is not in the intention of God that mankind ...
... cause . 1 : 165-78 FN : More boys born than girls ; more boys die than girls ; 106 boys born to 100 girls in France . Independent of climate . 106 boys born to 100 girls for all Europe . In Belgium , in the country more boys [ are ] ...
Contents
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Essays Notes and Letters | 277 |
Philosophy Science Education and Literature | 549 |
Appendixes | 825 |
Bibliography | 839 |
Index | 849 |