Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 6

Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 6

Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 6

Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 6

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Overview

This sixth volume in the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale reports Nightingale’s considerable accomplishments in the development of a public health care system based on health promotion and disease prevention. It follows directly from her understanding of social science and broader social reform activities, which were related in Society and Politics (Volume 5). Public Health Care includes a critical edition of Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes, papers on mortality in aboriginal schools and hospitals, and on rural health. It reports much unknown material on Nightingale’s signal contribution of bringing professional nursing into the dreaded workhouse infirmaries. This collection presents letters and notes on a wide range of issues from specific diseases to germ theory, and relates some of her own extensive work as a nurse practitioner, which included organizing referrals to doctors and providing related care.

Currently, Volumes 1 to 11 are available in e-book version by subscription or from university and college libraries through the following vendors: Canadian Electronic Library, Ebrary, MyiLibrary, and Netlibrary.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780889204461
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Publication date: 01/20/2004
Series: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale , #6
Pages: 714
Product dimensions: 6.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.80(d)

About the Author

Lynn McDonald, director of the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, is university professor emerita at the University of Guelph. She is an environmentalist, a former member of parliament, a former president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, and a long-time activist on womens issues. She has an honorary doctorate from York University.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents for
Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 6, edited by Lynn McDonald

Acknowledgments

Dramatis Personae

List of Illustrations

Florence Nightingale: A Précis of the Collected Works

Introduction to Volume 6

Public Health Care as a System

Key to Editing

Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes

Editor’s Introduction

Preface

Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not

Chapter 1. Ventilation and Warming

Chapter 2. Health of Houses

Chapter 3. Petty Management

Chapter 4. Noise

Chapter 5. Variety

Chapter 6. Taking Food

Chapter 7. What Food?

Chapter 8. Bed and Bedding

Chapter 9. Light

Chapter 10. Cleanliness of Rooms and Walls

Chapter 11. Personal Cleanliness

Chapter 12. Chattering Hopes and Advices

Chapter 13. Observation of the Sick

Chapter 14. Convalescence

Chapter 15. What Is a Nurse?

Chapter 16. “Minding Baby”

Conclusion

Note Upon Employment of Women

Appendix

Revisions for a Proposed 1875 Edition

Colonial Sanitary Statistics and Aboriginal Depopulation

“Sanitary Statistics of Native Colonial Schools and Hospitals”

“Sick-Nursing and Health-Nursing”

The Reform of Workhouse Infirmaries

Workhouse Infirmaries in Nightingale’s Day

The Liverpool Workhouse Infirmary

The Appointment of Agnes Jones as Superintendent

Death of and Memorials to Agnes Jones

Later Superintendents and Difficulties

The Extension of Workhouse Nursing to Metropolitan London

Brief to the Cubic Space Comittee

Training Pauper Girls to Become Workhouse Nurses

The Metropolitan Poor Bill of 1867

Workhouse Infirmary for St Pancras, Highgate

Training School for Workhouse Nurses

Other Workhouse Infirmaries

The Extension of Nursing to Workhouse Infirmaries in Ireland

Public Health Issues, Rural Health and Nightingale’s “Caseload”

Nature, Disease, Germs and Contagion

Rural Health

“Rural Hygiene”

Medical Care of Employees, Former Employees and Tenants

Appendix

Appendix: Biographical Sketches

(Dr) John Sutherland (1808–91)

William Rathbone (1802–1902)

Agnes Elizabeth Jones (1832–68)

Bibliography

Index

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