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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... never before published , on her various attempts at reform on income security , opportunities for home ownership for ordinary workers , housing , co - operatives , assisted emigration schemes and proposals for dealing with juvenile ...
... never the edi- tor's . Any use of ( sic ) also is Nightingale's , never the editor's . When taking excerpts from written material Nightingale indicated ellipses with xx and we have kept these . Ellipses for editorial purposes are ...
... never been studied . The science of man gives us only researches on some of these laws , results of single observations or theories based on views . Social and intellectual man has not been studied in his development / ideal type ...
... never to be heard of more . Shall we say that the day of the purest self - sacrifice is past ? Shall we not rather try to bring about the day and the state of society when high thoughts and deeds are substituted as an order of things ...
... never broken. It is this: such a state of society, such will be the product. These numbers are fixed as long as the social and national circumstances remain the same. Individuals cannot alter these except by carrying what is called ...
Contents
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Essays Notes and Letters | 277 |
Philosophy Science Education and Literature | 549 |
Appendixes | 825 |
Bibliography | 839 |
Index | 849 |