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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... .................................... Visit to Oxford University Teaching and Lesson Plans Appointment of a Mistress at Girton College .................................... .....................................................
... teacher before she was allowed to take up nursing . She collected lesson plans , reported here , which were possibly ... teaching she gained at Kaiserswerth in 1851 appears in European Travels . Nightingale was a lifelong reader of ...
... teaching us , by the introduction of exact evidence in the shape of social statistics , to estimate exactly the results of our actions " ( Theology 3 : 160 ) . The " In Memoriam " essay , 1874 , which follows the Margina- lia , gives a ...
... teaching us by these results the laws by which our moral progress is to be attained , or rather explaining the road we must take if we are to discover the laws of God's government of His moral world . I had pleased myself with thinking ...
... teaching and practising the reverse as the law of God . 1. The foundling hospital is the parent of immorality ( 1 : 380-85 ) ; 2. Indiscriminate dole - giving , from private or from public purse , is the parent of pauperism . Here are ...
Contents
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Essays Notes and Letters | 277 |
Philosophy Science Education and Literature | 549 |
Appendixes | 825 |
Bibliography | 839 |
Index | 849 |