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Florence Nightingale

The Feminist Press at CUNY, 1979

The world knows Florence Nightingale as "the lady with the lamp"-the revered founder of nursing as a respectable profession for women. But few people are aware that Nightingale's career began only after years of struggle to free herself from her suffocating Victorian family. In this surprisingly passionate feminist essay (a "brilliant polemic," states Martha Vicinus ), Nightingale denounces the lives of idleness she and other women ofher class ...

Florence Nightingale - to her Nurses (new edition)
Florence Nightingale

Book Jungle, 2007

A selection from miss Nightingale's addresses to probationers and nurses of the nightingale school at St. Thomases Hospital

Florence Nightingale and the Birth of Professional Nursing (Western Influence on Japan)
Florence Nightingale

Thoemmes Continuum, 1999

This is a new six-volume set of writings by Nightingale and her contemporaries on nursing and health care in nineteenth-century England. Topics include hospital nursing, district nursing and education, all of which underwent a transformation from the mid-nineteenth century onwards as nursing became professionalized and began to enjoy increased prestige, thanks in large part to the reforming efforts of Florence Nightingale. Nightingale's ...

Florence Nightingale in Egypt and Greece: Her Diary and "Visions" (Suny Series in Western Esoteric Traditions)
Florence Nightingale, Michael D. Calabria

State University of New York Press, 1996

Early Medicine and Health, 69 books on CD

66 reviews
Henry Handerson, George Gould, ...

B & R Samizdat Express, 2007

A continuous page-turner
The Story Of My Life was a life-changing book for me. The reason for this is because I never thought that a person who had no power could do so much and have so much of it. As soon as I read this book it made me feel that no matter how small you are you can accomplish your dreams and goals. My opinion about this book is that it taught me that even if you are disabled, like Helen Keller you can ...