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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 87
... Reform Florence Nightingale on War and Militarism Florence Nightingale and Hospital Reform FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE ON SOCIETY AND POLITICS , PHILOSOPHY , SCIENCE.
... reform more broadly , the subject of this volume . Society and Politics is the fifth volume in the Collected Works , following Life and Family , which gives an overview of Nightingale's life , family correspondence and domestic ...
... reform work in her main field of activity , the establishment of a public health care system . There are also two volumes each on nursing proper , war and India , and one volume on hospital reform , each dealing with her reform work in ...
... reform . Measures she advocated in the mid- to late nineteenth century in some cases saw implementation only after ... reform is included , her own analysis of an early census , and her own participation as a householder in later ...
... reform campaigns brought her into contact with the chief political actors of her day . Substantial sections report correspondence with and notes on and by Queen Victoria ( and Prince Albert ) , W.E. Gladstone , General Gordon and John ...
Contents
1 | |
5 | |
9 | |
Essays Notes and Letters | 277 |
Philosophy Science Education and Literature | 549 |
Appendixes | 825 |
Bibliography | 839 |
Index | 849 |