Florence Nightingale on society and politics, philosophy, science, education and literature /
Florence 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 "...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Waterloo, Ont. :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
2003
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| Series: | Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910. Works. 2001 ;
v. 5. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | Florence 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 famil. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 871 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 840-848) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0889204292 9780889204294 9780889207073 0889207070 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
