1995: What if they had listened to Florence?: an essay in contrafactus.

Manchester, U.K., Manchester University Press. ‘I have done my duty’: Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War, 1854–56. Florence Nightingale and the libraries of the British Army. Florence Nightingale and the nursing legacy. But I know it and often think about it (31 December 1879).īaly, M.E. The world does not know all this or think about it. There was a great deal of romantic feeling about you 23 years ago when you returned home from the Crimea and now you work on in silence, and nobody knows how many lives are saved by your nurses in hospitals how many thousand soldiers are now alive owing to your forethought and diligence how many natives of India in this generation and in generations to come have been preserved from famine and oppression and the load of debt by the energy of a sick lady who can scarcely rise from her bed. A letter written to her by Benjamin Jowett should stand as her epitaph: It would seem fair to judge Florence Nightingale's contribution to education by the practical effect which her reforms had. Emphasising common sense and thought for the patient's care in many more ways than just administering physician-prescribed medicines, this is still a very relevant book for those interested in health or caring for the sick and infirm today.Florence Nightingale once quoted from an address on education delivered at the Universities of St Andrew's and Glasgow, which perfectly reflected her own standpoint: ‘ education is to teach men not to know, but to do’ (Nightingale, 1873, p.

Notes on Nursing was published in 1859 and is a fascinating view into the theories underpinning the early development of modern nursing and public health reform by 'the Lady with the Lamp', Florence Nightingale. Download cover art Download CD case insert Notes on Nursing

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