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Florence Nightingale on Social Change in India: Collected ...
Florence NightingaleJharna Gourlay''s highly positive assessment of her work pitted the progressive Nightingale against the timid administrators and health officers.15 Here, instead, I prefer to examine Nightingale''s achievements in the light of the objectives she set for herself. Her work, of course, was always done with collaborators, so what contributions can be said to have been distinctly Nightingale''s will be a matter of judgment. In some respects she was clearly the leader and initiator of action, bringing ...
Florence Nightingale on Health in India: Collected Works of ...
Florence NightingaleAs this Collected Works goes to print there has been only one full-length book on the subject, Jharna Gourlay''s Florence Nightingale and the Health of the Raj. Barbara Dossey gives one chapter to India in her excellent book on Nightingale as a “visionary.”42 Yet there is no lack of primary material. Of the daunting amount of articles, letters and reports Nightingale wrote, often with lengthy and sometimes several drafts, only a small amount has heretofore been published. Hence the ...
Florence Nightingale on Health in India: Collected Works of ...
PreviewAs this Collected Works goes to print there has been only one full-length book on the subject, Jharna Gourlay''s Florence Nightingale and the Health of the Raj. Barbara Dossey gives one chapter to India in her excellent book on Nightingale as a ''''visionary.''''42 Yet there is no lack of primary material. Of the daunting amount of articles, letters and reports Nightingale wrote, often with lengthy and sometimes several drafts, only a small amount has heretofore been published. Hence the ...
Florence Nightingale: Lady with the Lamp
Sam WellmanFor Florence Nightingale (1820--1910), following Christ's example of service meant tending to the medical needs of the sick and injured.
Nursing Research Using Historical Methods: Qualitative ...
PreviewMonica Baly''s Florence Nightingale and the Nursing Legacy (1997) turns to the famous nurses'' training school at St. Thomas'' in London and suggests that much of its success came from a well-oiled publicity machine. Jharna Gourlay''s Florence Nightingale and the Health of the Raj (2003) focuses on Nightingale''s involvement with India and charts her movement from a narrow focus only on the health of the British Army to a much broader perspective that supported political changes ...
The Nightingale
Kristin HannahThe Nightingale tells the story of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, courage, passion and circumstance - each one embarking on her own dangerous path towards survival, love and freedom in an occupied, war-torn ...
Nightingale's Nest
Nikki LoftinInspired by a Hans Christian Andersen story, Nightingale's Nest is an unforgettable novel about a boy with the weight of the world on his shoulders and a girl with the gift of healing in her voice.
On the edge: a history of poor black children and their ...
Carl Husemoller Nightingalea history of poor black children and their American dreams Carl Husemoller Nightingale ... Designed by Ellen Levine 93 94 95 96 ♢/HC 987654321 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Nightingale, Carl H. On the edge : a ...
Sherlock Hong: The Immortal Nightingale
Don BoscoAccording to Aisha's aunt, our neighbourhood's everreliable source of information, William Fong had been in and out of prison in a number of cities around the world, mostly for cheating. At Uncle Chan's house, he had hidden a live nightingale ...
Rock Chick
Kristen AshleyIndy Savage, a rock chick and used bookstore owner, and Lee Nightingale, head of Nightingale Investigations, team to solve the mystery of missing diamonds belonging to her boss, and why bad guys are shooting at him.
Florence Nightingale
Susan Bivin AllerTrue or False? Florence Nightingale was the first woman nurse. False! Women had worked as nurses for years, but it was considered a miserable job. Few nurses in England had any medical training.
Explaining the Genetic Footprints of Catholic and Protestant ...
S. BarterFor Carl Nightingale, “unlike white men in the English-speaking world, Frenchmen were less likely to object to cross-racial sex.” Carl H. Nightingale, Segregation: A Global History of Divided Cities (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012), ...
The Ancient World
More editionsErez Natanblut Queen's University Kingston, Canada Andrea Wilson Nightingale, Spectacles of Truth in Classical Greek Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, 2004, x+311 pages, Hardback $75.00. Andrea Wilson Nightingale's Spectacles ...
The Chicago Freedom Movement: Martin Luther King Jr. and ...
PreviewEven more recently, Carl H. Nightingale places the Chicago Freedom Movement within the global history of segregation. While Nightingale calls King's Chicago campaign a “defeat,” he sees it as part of a wider, planetary story. Carl H.
Fireworks: and, Song of the nightingale
Igor Stravinsky"Fireworks" is a brilliant early score written in 1908; "Song of the Nightingale" is a symphonic poem for orchestra, "the last of the . . . "'"spectacular' stage works of [Stravinsky's] first period." -- "Grove's Dictionary."
Tales from Hans Andersen
D. K. SwanThe Ugly Duckling; The Nightingale; The Little Mermaid; The Emperor's New Clothes; Thumbelina.
The Nightingale's Song
Robert TimbergPresents the story of five top graduates of Annapolis who served heroically in Vietnam and rose to national prominence during the Reagan years
Florence Nightingale: A Photo-Illustrated Biography
Lucile DavisA biography of the nurse and women's rights advocate who spent her life trying to improve medical standards.
Inch by Inch
Leo LionniTo keep from being eaten, an inchworm measures a robin's tail, a flamingo's neck, a toucan's beak, a heron's legs, and a nightingale's song. On board pages.
God’s Handmaiden
Gilbert MorrisA historical and romantic adventure woven around the story of Florence Nightingale.Gervase Howard is in her mid-teens when her working-class mother dies and she must go to live with relatives in service to a wealthy, noble family, outside ...
Los Olvidados: Literacy, Ethnography, and the Forgotten ...
Todd Daniel DeStigterAs these identities fluctuate, so does the type of cultural production effected, as well as the boundaries that separate one group from another.31 Though these M Carl Husemoller Nightingale, in On the Edge: A History of Poor Black Children ...
The Cambridge Companion to Caryl Churchill
PreviewDan Rebellato, 1956 and All That: The Making of Modern British Drama (London: Routledge, 1999), Chapter 5. Lucy Powell, 'Why She's Top Girl', 14. Taylor, 'One of a Kind', 11. Nightingale, 'Chairwoman', I4 Ravenhill, 'She Made Us', 23.
Genres in Dialogue: Plato and the Construct of Philosophy
Andrea Wilson NightingaleThis 1995 book takes as its starting point Plato's incorporation of specific genres of poetry and rhetoric into his dialogues.
Mama's Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation
Edwidge DanticatWith stirring illustrations, this tender tale shows the human side of immigration and imprisonment—and shows how every child has the power to make a difference.
The Accidental Birth of Military Medicine: The Origins of ...
A. E. W. MilesBorn in the crucible of the Crimean war and in the care of the likes of Florence Nightingale and Sir James McGrigor, this book reveals the collaboration between the Army Medical Department and two major London universities that led to the ...
Plato As Author: The Rhetoric of Philosophy
PreviewSUBTEXT AND SUBTERFUGE IN PLATO'S CRATTLUS Andrea Wilson Nightingale The Cratylus is a curiously evasive dialogue: purporting to discuss names and, by extension, human speech, the text is often silent when we would most like it ...
Song of the Nightingale: A Modern Spiritual Canticle
Michael FordDrawing on naturalistic imagery from the poetry of St. John of the Cross, Ford invites readers to join him as he retraces the steps of his own spiritual pilgrimage. (Catholic)
W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and the City: "The Philadelphia ...
PreviewToward a Historical Analysis Carl Husemoller Nightingale A Global Context for U.S. Inner Cities Throughout the evolution of his long intellectual life, W.E.B. DuBois held as an axiom that the oppression of African Americans was a global ...
Cities Beyond Borders: Comparative and Transnational ...
Nicolas KennyCarl H. Nightingale Books like this one, packed with diverse and stimulating chapters, make it indisputable: urban history has embraced its 'transnational turn'. Celebrations are certainly in order and so are the ongoing critical conversations ...
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