Florence Nightingale: 1820-1910 - Softcover

Cecil Blanche Fitzgerald Woodham-Smith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0094758107 ISBN 13: 9780094758100

Publisher: Constable & Robinson Ltd, 1996

Synopsis

Draws on research by army historians to describe the cover-up of disastrous events in the Crimea, and to seperate Nightingale's real achievments from her mythical ones.

About this title

About the Author:

Hugh Small is now retired and living in North London.

From Library Journal:

In 1854, Florence Nightingale sailed from England with 38 nurses, bound for the Scutari barracks in Constantinople and the Crimean War. Two years later, she returned a world figure: Queen Victoria sent her an inscribed brooch, and a public subscription raised over a million pounds to fund the training of hospital nurses. Then, at age 37, Nightingale collapsed and remained an invalid for ten years. Basing his study on extensive research into previously unpublished material, Small (a London-based management consultant) attributes Nightingale's collapse to her discovery that her well-publicized nursing efforts at Scutari had made no difference: "[She] had not been running a hospital. She had been running a death camp." The real culprits, he notes, were bad drains, overcrowding, and poor ventilation. Once past her distress, Nightingale moved to expose the government cover-up. This book should reestablish Nightingale as a major figure in 19th-century health reform. Recommended for scholarly collections and larger general collections.ADavid Keymer, California State Univ., Stanislaus
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About this edition

• Publisher: Constable & Robinson Ltd
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0094758107
• ISBN 13: 9780094758100
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 616