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Florence Nightingale and hospital reform /
This book demonstrates Nightingale's astute use of the political process and reports on her correspondence with royalty, viceroys, and leaders, including such notables as Queen Victoria and W. E. Gladstone. This book confirms Nightingale as a significant nineteenth-century scholar and illustrat...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Waterloo, Ontario, Canada :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
[2012]
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| Colección: | Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910. Collected works of Florence Nightingale ;
v. 16. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book demonstrates Nightingale's astute use of the political process and reports on her correspondence with royalty, viceroys, and leaders, including such notables as Queen Victoria and W. E. Gladstone. This book confirms Nightingale as a significant nineteenth-century scholar and illustrates how she integrated her scholarship with political activism. The volume includes her influential Notes on Hospitals, with its much-quoted musing on the need of a Hippocratic oath for hospitals - namely, that first they should do the sick no harm. Nightingale's anonymous articles on hospital design are printed here also, as are later encyclopedia entries on hospitals. Correspondence with architects, engineers, doctors, philanthropists, local notables, and politicians is included. The results of these letters, some with detailed critiques of hospital plans, can be seen initially in the great British examples of the new "pavilion" design - at St. Thomas', London (a civil hospital), at the Herbert Hospital (military), and later at many hospitals throughout the UK and internationally. Nightingale's insistence on keeping good statistics to track rates of mortality and hospital stays, and on using them to compare hospitals, can be seen as good advice for the contemporary era, given the new versions of "hospital-acquired infections" she sought to combat. |
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| Notas: | This, the final volume of the series, contains material that permits an overview of a central concern of Nightingale's working life: hospital reform. Subjects range from her early work on army hospitals and her far larger output on civil hospitals to her use of statistics and other research on the health of the population at large--Introduction. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (989 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781554588848 1554588847 9781554582884 1554582881 |