Author

Publication

2010 - Continuum, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

49,250 words, Guess

Page Count

197 pages

Identifiers

and 5 more
  • OCLC Control Number624404890
  • OCLC Control Number432983021
  • Better World Books9781441132550
  • Better World Books9780826441812
  • Open LibraryOL25570090M

Classifications

  • DDC610.73092
  • LCCUH347.N6 M33 2010
  • LCCRT37

Description

Florence Nightingale is one of the most famous figures in modern history. Yet much of what we know of her emanates from unreliable second-hand accounts, and from a misreading of the primary sources. Lynn McDonald, editor of Nightingale's Collected Works, and the world's foremost Nightingale authority, aims to put this right. This is a book which reports what Florence Nightingale said and did, based on her writing, of which a massive amount survives, scattered in over two hundred archives throughout the world. Published to commemorate the centenary of Nightingale's death, McDonald's study presents a Florence Nightingale for the 21st century, as an author of great style and wit, a systems thinker and pioneering public health reformer--the heroine and nurse were only the start.--From publisher description.

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