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Florence Nightingale on Social Change in India: Collected ...

Florence Nightingale on Social Change in India: Collected ...

Florence Nightingale

Jharna 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 Nightingale on Health in India: Collected Works of ...

Florence Nightingale

As 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

Florence Nightingale: Lady with the Lamp

Sam Wellman

For Florence Nightingale (1820--1910), following Christ's example of service meant tending to the medical needs of the sick and injured.
Florence Nightingale on Health in India: Collected Works of ...

Florence Nightingale on Health in India: Collected Works of ...

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As 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

Florence Nightingale

Susan Bivin Aller

True 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.
Nursing Research Using Historical Methods: Qualitative ...

Nursing Research Using Historical Methods: Qualitative ...

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Monica 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 ...
Florence Nightingale and the Health of the Raj

Florence Nightingale and the Health of the Raj

Jharna Gourlay

How sincere she was would be apparent from the fact that she wrote to Lady Charlotte Canning, who was at that time in Calcutta with her husband Lord Canning, the Governor-General of India. Lady Canning and Florence had been good ...
Florence Nightingale: A Photo-Illustrated Biography

Florence Nightingale: A Photo-Illustrated Biography

Lucile Davis

A biography of the nurse and women's rights advocate who spent her life trying to improve medical standards.
God’s Handmaiden

God’s Handmaiden

Gilbert Morris

A 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 ...
The Accidental Birth of Military Medicine: The Origins of ...

The Accidental Birth of Military Medicine: The Origins of ...

A. E. W. Miles

Born 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 ...
The Nightingale

The Nightingale

Kristin Hannah

The 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

Nightingale's Nest

Nikki Loftin

Inspired 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 ...

On the edge: a history of poor black children and their ...

Carl Husemoller Nightingale

a 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

Sherlock Hong: The Immortal Nightingale

Don Bosco

According 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 ...
An American in Gandhi's India: The Biography of Satyanand Stokes

An American in Gandhi's India: The Biography of Satyanand Stokes

Asha Sharma

3. Stokes to Florence S., 6 May 1925. 4. Stokes to Florence S., 1 December 1924. 5. Richard B. Gregg to Florence S., June 1926, Stokes Papers. 6. Interview with Fazl-ud-Din Ali. 7. Richard Gregg to Florence S., 11 July 1925, Stokes Papers. 8.
Rock Chick

Rock Chick

Kristen Ashley

Indy 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.
Role Development in Professional Nursing Practice

Role Development in Professional Nursing Practice

Kathleen Masters

Chapter || and Nursing Karen Saucier Lundy. PhD, RN, FAAN sional nursing practice opment of professional nursing practice • Deconesses • Chadwick Report • Shattuck Report • Florence Nightingale • The Goldmark Report • The Brown ...
Florence: A Portrait

Florence: A Portrait

Michael Levey

Looks at the political and artistic history of the city of Florence in Italy, from its earliest times through the nineteenth century In Dante, exiled from Florence in 1321, Levey finds an inspired guide to the city's thirteenth-century ...
Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research

Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research

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Lawrence James FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE AND THE HEALTH OF THE RAJ, Jharna Gourlay. Aldershot and Burlington (VT): Ashgate, 2003, ISBN 0-7546- 3364-0, 305 pp., £57.50. This is a book to delight any historian — massively researched, clearly and economically written, and with a full academic apparatus, but above all dealing with an important aspect of British India which will be new ground for almost all British historians. Most military historians will be vaguely aware that ...
Explaining the Genetic Footprints of Catholic and Protestant ...

Explaining the Genetic Footprints of Catholic and Protestant ...

S. Barter

For 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

The Ancient World

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Erez 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 ...
Nursing History Review, Volume 14, 2006: Official Journal of ...

Nursing History Review, Volume 14, 2006: Official Journal of ...

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By Jharna Gourlay (Hants, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2003) (305 pages; $114.95/£60 cloth) While it may be well known that Florence Nightingale concerned herself with the health affairs of India for over forty years, there is a noticeable dearth of historical literature on the subject. Jharna Gourlay, a lecturer in philosophy and a British Broadcasting Company producer, has picked up the task of shedding light on this virtually overlooked subject. Gourlay''s use of the archival ...
The Chicago Freedom Movement: Martin Luther King Jr. and ...

The Chicago Freedom Movement: Martin Luther King Jr. and ...

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Even 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

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."
A history of the Kasler family in America, 1758-1991

A history of the Kasler family in America, 1758-1991

John Vinton Kasler

Florence Emma 2041 . Asher Waldo 2042. Francis M. 2043. Samuel M. 2044. Jesse Mahlon The Nathan Kasler Family -1933 Back: Florence, Asher, Frances Front: Jesse, Nathan, Susan, Samuel 2040. Florence Emma Kasler was born 12  ...
Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History

Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History

Florence Williams

In this informative and highly entertaining account, intrepid science reporter Florence Williams sets out to uncover the latest scientific findings from the fields of anthropology, biology, and medicine.
Lesbian Step Families: An Ethnography of Love

Lesbian Step Families: An Ethnography of Love

Ellen Cole

When I went to Dale and Frannie«s baseball game, several of the other parents chatted amicably with Nisi and Florence about their recent family trip totheBadlands. And, afterFrannie introduced Florence asher mother«s partner atthe Brownie ...

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