Florence Nightingale
Nightingale, Florence - 1820–1910, English nurse, the founder of modern nursing, b. Florence, Italy. Her life was dedicated to the care of the sick and war wounded. In 1844, she began to visit hospitals; in 1850, she spent some time with the nursing Sisters of St. Vincent de Paul in Alexandria; and a year later she studied at the institute for Protestant deaconesses in Kaiserswerth Read More...
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Florence Nightingale
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Florence Nightingale: An Introduction to Her Life and Family
by Lynn McDonald, Florence Nightingale. 907 pgs.
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An Introduction to the Social History of Nursing ("Florence Nightingale: Woman and Myth" begins on p. 35)
by Robert Dingwall, Anne Marie Rafferty, Charles Webster. 256 pgs.
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Essays on Women, Medicine and Health (Discussion of Florence Nightingale begins on p. 96)
by Ann Oakley. 302 pgs.
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Nursing and Social Change (Chap. 9 "The Influence of Florence Nightingale")
by Monica E. Baly. 397 pgs.
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Nursing, the Finest Art: An Illustrated History ("The Nightingale Revolution" begins on p. 197)
by M. Patricia Donahue. 535 pgs.
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Western Medicine: An Illustrated History (Discussion of Florence Nightingale begins on p. 198)
by Irvine Loudon. 348 pgs.
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British Medicine in an Age of Reform (Discussion of Florence Nightingale begins on p. 231)
by Roger French, Andrew Wear. 260 pgs.
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A Second Treasury of the World's Great Letters: A Mixed Mailbag Including Intimate Exchanges and Cycles of Correspondence by Famed Men and Women of History and the Arts ("Florence Nightingale, Amid the Horrors of the Crimean War, Jolts England With the Facts [A Letter to Sir William Bowman]" begins on p. 421)
by Wallace Brockway, Bart Keith Winer. 692 pgs.
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The Great Victorians (1932) ("Florence Nightingale: 1820-1910" begins on p. 319)
by Hugh Massingham. 536 pgs.
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