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Nursing History Review, Volume 14, 2006: Official Journal of ...
PreviewBy 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 ...
Florence Nightingale and the Health of the Raj
Jharna GourlayHow 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 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 ...
Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research
More editionsLawrence 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 ...
Lost Prince:
Gregory GourlayGregory Gourlay ... Twentyseven Chapter Twentyeight Chapter Twentynine Chapter Thirty Chapter Thirtyone About the Author Also by the Author VISIT OUR WEBSITE Lost Prince Gregory Gourlay Published by Rogue Phoenix Press Copyright.
Tall Story
Candy GourlayWhen he finally arrives, he's tall all right. But he's not just tall ... he's a GIANT. In a novel packed with humour and quirkiness, Gourlay explores a touching sibling relationship and the clash of two very different cultures.
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 ...
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 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 ...
Education and empowerment: women in South Asia
Bethune School (Calcutta, India)MEDICAL WOMEN AND FEMALE MEDICAL EDUCATION IN 19TH CENTURY INDIA Jharna Gourlay The aim of this paper is to trace some of the early developments in the medical education of Indian women in 19th century India and the role played by British and American women in it. By medical education I will mean not only the professional training of Indian women as doctors, nurses, midwives and other hospital auxiliaries, but also the spread of knowledge about sanitation, ...
The Jacobean and Caroline Stage: Plays and playwrights
Gerald Eades BentleyIn both his letters Mr. Gourlay says that he thinks the play is the work of Thomas Jordan, and in the first letter, but not the second, he records his belief ... Dr. Greg mentions only 'Ellis' and 'Ambros' as actors' names appearing in the manuscript.
Kindred Passage:
Gregory Gourlay"Hello,I'm Johan Strydom." "I askedabout Alwynne," Pritchardcut in beforeKen could respond to theman. "Alwynne's working in his office," Strydom replied testily , "but you mightbe diplomatic for onceand waita bit. He's busyand doesn't want ...
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