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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... women , the minimal demands it put on its adherents generally and its social conservatism . Her faith was nourished by broad reading , from the medieval mystics , liberal theologians , the German historical school to contemporary ...
... Women reports Nightin- gale's reform work on the regulation of prostitution , midwifery and women in medicine . Nightingale is widely known as the major founder of the modern profession of nursing and the heroine of the Crimean War ...
... women , women in medicine and the professions and India . Correspondence with and notes on Richard Monckton Milnes ( poet , philanthropist and politician , as well as her former suitor ) are also related here . There are shorter ...
... woman at thirty . ( 6 ) Woman's crimes [ are ] more secret and in a nearer sphere . ( 7 ) Seasons : sum- mer — most crimes against persons , winter — against property . ( 8 ) Mad- ness : same relation of age and season as in crimes ...
... women always receiving nurse - children and never returning them to their parents . This is his own expression . He says that he cannot conceive how any woman can be “ such a fool as to commit infanticide when she can destroy her child ...
Contents
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Essays Notes and Letters | 277 |
Philosophy Science Education and Literature | 549 |
Appendixes | 825 |
Bibliography | 839 |
Index | 849 |