Florence Nightingale on Society and Politics, Philosophy, Science, Education and Literature
Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 5
Publication Year: 2003
Published by: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Cover
Title Page, Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
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pp. ix-x
Acknowledgments are due first to the Henry Bonham Carter Will Trust for permission to publish Nightingale original manuscripts, and indeed for treating Nightingale material generally as being in the public domain. To the owners of Nightingale manuscripts thanks are due for their important role in conservation, for permitting scholarly access and for permitting ...
Dramatis Personae
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p. xi-xi
List of Illustrations
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p. xii-xii
Florence Nightingale: A Précis of the Collected Works
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pp. xiii-xiv
Florence Nightingale was born in Florence 12 May 1820, of wealthy English parents whose European wedding trip lasted nearly three years and included extended stays in Naples (where her older sister was born and given the Greek name of that city, Parthenope) and Florence. The two daughters were raised in England at country homes, Lea Hurst, in Derbyshire, and Embley, ...
Introduction to Volume 5
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pp. 1-4
Society and Politics is the main volume reporting Nightingale’s work as a social reformer and its intellectual foundations. Public Health Care, which follows, is a companion volume, reporting social reform work in her main field of activity, the establishment of a public health care system. There are also two volumes each on nursing proper, war and India, and one volume on hospital reform, ...
Key to Editing
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pp. 5-8
All the manuscript material in the Collected Works has been carefully transcribed and verified (see the electronic text for a full description of the process). Remaining illegible words and passages are so indicated, with [illeg] or [?] inserted to indicate our best reading of the word or words in question. Dates for material cited or reproduced are given wherever possible, ...
Society: Essays, Letters and Notes on Social Physics and Social Statistics
Nightingale’s Quetelet
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pp. 11-128
The key to understanding Florence Nightingale’s social science is the methodology of the Belgian statistician, L.A.J. Quetelet, her mentor in all matters statistical and, more broadly, methodological. We begin then with what she acquired from him and how she built on it. It was his methodology or philosophy of science that gave Nightingale a positive, constructive alternative ...
Social Policy, Poverty, Poor Law and Charity
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pp. 129-276
Nightingale’s paper on pauperism, published in Fraser’s Magazine, 1869, is her only publication on broad social policy. It is a remarkably progressive statement and indeed an early contribution to what would be termed "Christian socialism" in Britain and the "social gospel" in the United States and Canada. The paper includes the usual complaints about wasting money on poor relief and ...
Politics: Essays, Notes and Letters
Government, Public Policy and Elections
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pp. 279-328
The essay "Politics and Public Administration" was never published and was perhaps never intended to be. In excellent, amusing Nightingale style, it contains an odd assortment of points, including substantive comments on Army reorganization, colonial policy and disparities in wealth by social class, and such matters of political process as the management of Cabinet and the role of the ...
Elections and Party Politics
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pp. 329-368
Party politics were part of the atmosphere in which Nightingale grew up. Her grandfather, an MP for forty-six years, supported political rights for non-conformists, toleration of Jews and abolition of the slave trade. Nightingale was proud of his causes, especially the abolition of the slave trade. Her father held liberal, democratic views but gave up on elected politics after he was defeated on his first ...
Political Notables: Letters and Notes
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pp. 369-548
John Stuart Mill and Quetelet were Nightingale’s two great mentors on matters philosophical and methodological. Mill’s influence began earlier (she read him when growing up) and led on to a number of different subjects. As well as law, free will and necessity, the subject of her first letter to him, they worked together on Poor Law reform, notably the introduction of professional nursing ...
Philosophy, Science, Education and Literature
Philosophy
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pp. 551-644
Benjamin Jowett’s famous translation of the Dialogues of Plato, with lengthy introductions, has gone through many editions and is still used.1 What is not generally known is that Nightingale was extensively consulted for the wide-ranging revisions for the second edition and by far the greater part of her recommendations were adopted. The selections here present her comments, ...
Natural Science
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pp. 645-662
Nightingale had a good layperson’s acquaintance with science. In her teen years she made notes on scientific discoveries and inventions. A notebook from 1836 has survived with copious lists, several examples of which are given below. She kept up with scientific advances and controversies (for example, Darwin on natural selection). She was interested in scientific method, as the items ...
Education
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pp. 663-724
If Nightingale had not become a nurse, she might have become a schoolteacher! In the long years her family did not permit her even to study nursing, she found an outlet for her calling to service in teaching poor children in ragged schools and young women in evening classes. At home she coached her cousin, Shore, and taught Greek and algebra to Hugh Bonham Carter in 1845.1 She joked about ...
Literature
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pp. 725-808
Nightingale owned a sizable library of books, on history, literature, religion and science as well as on work-related medical books and sanitary reports. She frequently borrowed and exchanged books with colleagues. She bought and gave books to nurses’ homes, reading rooms for soldiers and workers (notably at Lea Hurst). Correspondence in the section on education, above, recounts gifts ...
Non-human Species, Love of Nature, Birds
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pp. 809-824
One suspects that Nightingale would have become a good amateur field naturalist if she had not been confined to her sickroom. Certainly her love of nature shines through these short notes, even if her enjoyment had to be largely vicarious, the view from her window. Her appreciation of trees and flowers is evident, her love of birds especially so. Early in life she told her cousin, ...
Appendixes
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pp. 827-838
Bibliography
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pp. 839-848
Index
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pp. 849-871
E-ISBN-13: 9780889207073
Print-ISBN-13: 9780889204294
Print-ISBN-10: 0889204292
Page Count: 896
Publication Year: 2003
Series Title: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale
