Florence Nightingale on Society and Politics, Philosophy, Science, Education and Literature : Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 5.
Title:
Florence Nightingale on Society and Politics, Philosophy, Science, Education and Literature : Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 5.
Author:
McDonald, Lynn.
ISBN:
9780889207073
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (894 pages)
Series:
Collected Works of Florence Nightingale
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Dramatis Personae -- List of Illustrations -- Florence Nightingale: A Précis of the Collected Works -- Introduction to Volume 5 -- Key to Editing -- Society: Essays, Letters and Notes on Social Physics and Social Statistics -- Nightingale's Quetelet -- Marginal Annotations to Physique sociale -- Essay ''In Memoriam'' -- Notes and Letters to Jowett on Quetelet and Probability -- Hospital Statistics -- Analysis of the 1841 Census -- Proposals for the 1861 Census -- As Householder in the 1871 Census -- Proposal for a Chair in Social Physics -- Social Policy, Poverty, Poor Law and Charity -- ''A Note on Pauperism'' -- ''Who Is the Savage?'' -- Relief of Distress -- Income Security and Housing for Workers -- Social-Class Issues -- Co-operatives versus Trade Unions -- ''Jack O'Darmstadt'' -- Assisted Emigration -- Coffee Houses, Workingmen's Institutes and Temperance -- Fred Verney's Clubs for Workingmen -- Crime, Crime-ology, Juvenile Offenders and Prisons -- Gender and the Family -- Gordon Boys' Home -- Private Charities and Fundraising -- Politics: Essays, Notes and Letters -- Government, Public Policy and Elections -- ''Politics and Public Administration'' -- Social Progress -- ''Go Down into Hell Bravely'' -- Notes on the Decline of Public Administration -- British Imperialism/Foreign Policy -- Elections and Party Politics -- Elections 1830s-1850s -- Elections 1860s -- Elections 1870s -- 1880 Election -- Elections 1885 and Later -- Endorsing Candidates -- Political Notables: Letters and Notes -- John Stuart Mill -- Queen Victoria and Prince Albert -- William Ewart Gladstone -- Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton -- General Charles Gordon -- Liberal and Progressive Politicians -- Viceroys, Governors General of India -- Conservative Politicians -- Other Political Notables -- Other Royal Persons.
Philosophy, Science, Education and Literature -- Philosophy -- Jowett's Dialogues of Plato -- Other Philosophers, Greek to Modern -- Natural Science -- Scientific Method and Discovery -- Evolution and Heredity -- Education -- Visit to Oxford University -- Teaching and Lesson Plans -- Appointment of a Mistress at Girton College -- Lea School -- Literature -- Classical Greek, Roman and Renaissance Authors -- Poets and Playwrights -- British Novelists and Essayists -- American Authors -- Historians -- Biography of Ellen M. -- A Literary Parlour Game -- Non-human Species, Love of Nature, Birds -- Appendixes -- Appendix A: Biographical Sketches -- L.A.J. Quetelet (1796-1874) -- (Sir) Edwin Chadwick (1800-90) -- John Stuart Mill (1806-73) -- William Farr (1807-91) -- Adeline Paulina Irby (1838-1911) -- Appendix B: Chronology -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
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 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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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