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Florence Nightingale is famous as the ""lady with the lamp"" in the Crimean War, 1854-56. There is a massive amount of literature on this work, but, as editor Lynn McDonald shows, it is often erroneous, and films and press reporting on it have been even less accurate. The Crimean War reports on Nightingale's correspondence from the war hospitals and on the staggering amount of work she did post-war to ensure that the appalling death rate from disease (higher than that from bullets) did not recur. This volume contains much on Nightingale's efforts to achieve real reforms. Her well-known

Su vida (1820–1910)Nacida en Florencia, de acaudalados y eruditos padres ingleses, Florence Nightingale se educó en un ambiente muy abierto desde el punto de vista religioso y sensible ante las injusticias sociales. Muy cercana a su padre, recibió una educación no conformista como la que entonces se prodigaba a un hijo. Desde su más temprana edad, estaba obsesionada por la miseria de los pobres y se sentía llamada a asistir a los enfermos, siendo consciente de que debía aprenderlo todo, ya que casi no existía la formación de enfermera. Se puso a leer, incluidas obras de estadística; aprovechó sus viajes familiares para visitar, en las principales capitales europeas, los hospitales, observar e informarse acerca de la asistencia prestada a los enfermos indigentes. Hizo un aprendizaje con las Hijas de la Caridad en París, después con las diaconisas de Kaiserwerth, cerca de Düsseldorf. El año 1853, reorganizó, en Londres, un hospital para mujeres enfermas, sellando así la ruptura con su familia, que se oponía a la vida por la que había optado. F. Nightingale también estaba sumida en dudas y atormentada por desgarramientos interiores que, por una parte, originaban su necesidad de relaciones humanas y, por otra, su deseo de vivir su ideal al servicio de la humanidad. Tras muchas dudas, decidió no contraer un excelente matrimonio para entregarse a su ideal.

"This is the first biography told from a post-feminist perspective, about one of the world's most famous women. Born into Victorian Britain's elite, a brilliant, magnetic teenager decided to devote her life to becoming a nurse. By creating a career for women that empowered them with economic independence, Florence Nightingale stands among the founders of modern feminism"--

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Dramatis Personae -- List of Illustrations -- Florence Nightingale: A Précis of Her Life -- An Introduction to Volume 16 -- The Need for Hospital Reform -- The Pavilion Principle -- Nurses' Working and Living Conditions -- Germ Theory, Contagion and Infection -- Chronology of Nightingale's Work on Hospital Reform -- Key to Editing -- Notes on Hospitals -- Notes on Hospitals, 1st and 2nd editions 1858 and 1859 -- [Sixteen Sanitary Defects in the Construction of Hospital Wards] -- Note on the Hospital Plans -- Notes on Hospitals, 3rd edition 1863 -- 1. Sanitary Condition of Hospitals -- 2. Defects in Existing Hospital Plans and Construction -- 3. Principles of Hospital Construction -- 4. Improved Hospital Plans -- 5. Convalescent Hospitals -- 6. Children's Hospitals -- 7. Indian Military Hospitals -- 8. Hospitals for Soldiers' Wives and Children -- 9. Hospital Statistics -- B. Proposal for Improved Statistics of Surgical Operations -- Nomenclature of Operations -- Appendix on Different Systems of Hospital Nursing -- Distribution, Reviews and Response to Notes on Hospitals -- Military Hospitals: Letters, Notes, Articles and Reports -- Military Hospitals: Letters, Notes, Articles and Reports -- Nightingale's Articles on Netley -- A Contribution to the Sanitary History of the British Army -- Gordon Boys' Home, 1885-90 -- Civil Hospitals: Letters and Notes -- Civil Hospitals: Letters and Notes -- List of Civil Hospitals on which Nightingale Advised -- The Lisbon Children's Hospital, 1859-60 -- Glasgow Royal Infirmary, 1859-61 -- ''Hospital Statistics and Hospital Plans'' -- ''Winchester Infirmary,'' Hampshire County Hospital, 1858-64 -- Midlands Hospitals, 1860-67 -- Buckinghamshire Infirmary, Aylesbury, 1859-69 -- Malta Civil Hospitals, 1862-65 -- Swansea General Hospital, 1864-65 -- Derby Infirmary, 1864-69.

Volume 9: Florence Nightingale on Health in India is the first of two volumes reporting Nightingale's forty years of work to improve public health in India. It begins with her work to establish the Royal Commission on the Sanitary State of the Army in India, for which she drafted questionnaires, analyzed returns, and did much of the final writing, going on to promote the implementation of its recommendations. In this volume a gradual shift of attention can be seen from the health of the army to that of the civilian population. Famine and epidemics were frequent and closely interrelated occur

Epidemics and mortality in 15th and 16th century Florence, Italy, were investigated by use of records of the government-sponsored Dowry Fund. These records contain the date of birth, date of investment, and date of dowry payment or death of 19,000 girls and women. Major epidemics ("plagues") occurred repeatedly. The most severe were in 1430, 1437-38, 1449-50, 1478-79, and 1527-31. Annual death rates of girls enrolled in the Dowry Fund increased by 5 to 10 times in each of these periods. During the last period, at least 20-25 per cent of the population of Florence is likely to have died. Recurrent epidemics accounted for 38 per cent of the total mortality experienced by girls enrolled in the Dowry Fund. The frequency of serious epidemics diminished with the passage of time, and overall mortality declined by about 10 per cent over the 15th and 16th centuries. Epidermic mortality was not consistently related to age. The effects of epidemics were most severe in the summer and autumn. Non-epidemic mortality was also greater in the summer and autumn than in the winter and spring.

Florence Kelley (1859–1932) was a leading American reformer and activist against child labour. As an admired national icon, most of the biographical and scholarly accounts focus on her achievements. This article, by contrast, analyses and categorises the numerous obstacles Kelley had to face in her activist life, hereto barely discussed in the Kelley literature. Drawing mainly on her private papers from the New York Public Library, her autobiography, and edited letters, it focuses on her personal experiences and helps to reconstruct the shadowy sides of her activism. Offering an unpolished historical account rather than a simple and incomplete success story, it aims to give readers a grasp of her perseverance, intelligence, and capacity to change her strategy in pursuit of her goals. Often what seemed to be an obstacle turned out to be an important crossroads on the way towards the next important step in her activist life. Overall, the article reconstructs and categorises episodes involving the lesser-known everyday obstacles she faced, but also critically revisits the way Kelley's activism has been portrayed in the literature.

Mysticism and Eastern Religions, the fourth volume in the Collected Works and the third on Nightingale's religion, begins with the publication for the first time of Florence Nightingale's Notes on Devotional Authors of the Middle Ages, translations from and comments on the medieval (and some later) mystics who nourished her own life of faith. Next come her annotations of and comments on the Imitation of Christ, a book to which she turned in times of distress. The largest part of the volume consists of her Letters from Egypt, written 1849-50, a significant period in her own intellectual and s

Acknowledgments; Dramatis Personae; List of Illustrations; Florence Nightingale: A Précis of Her Life; Introduction to Volume 10; Key to Editing; Implementing Sanitary Reform; Village and Town Sanitation; Land Tenure and Rent Reform; Reform in Credit, Co-operatives, Education and Agriculture; The Condition of Women in India; Social and Political Evolution; Nightingale's Last Work on India and a Retrospective; Appendix A: Biographical Sketches; Appendix B: British Officials in Nightingale's Time; Appendix C: Spelling of Indian Place Names; Glossary; Bibliography; Index