Florence Nightingale: Avenging Angel - Hardcover

Small, Hugh

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312226993 ISBN 13: 9780312226992

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999

Synopsis

This study of the personality and achievements of Florence Nightingale is based on extensive research and unpublished material. She achieved fame for her leadership of a group of British nurses during the Crimean War, and afterwards she dedicated herself to promoting public health. Following a collapse at age 37, she remained bedridden for more than ten years and became one of history's most famous invalids. Hugh Small has produced a new and startling explanation of Florence Nightingale's actions, comparing the conflicting contemporary accounts of what really happened in her hospital at Scutari during the war and uncovering an official cover-up of a public health disaster for which Nightingale felt personally responsible.

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Book Description:

A study of the personality and achievements of Florence Nightingale, focusing on her role in the development of democratic government and public health in Britain in the aftermath of the Crimean War.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0312226993
• ISBN 13: 9780312226992
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 221