Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries

Nightingale, Florence; MacRae, Janet; Calabria, Michael D.

ISBN 10: 0812231740 / ISBN 13: 9780812231748

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994

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First Edition; Cloth Hard Cover, 176 pages; no dust jacket; a Near Fine copy; clean, tight & square.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0812231740
• ISBN 13: 9780812231748
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

Florence Nightingale is best known as the founder of modern nursing, a reformer in the field of public health, and a pioneer in the use of statistics. It is not generally known, however, that Nightingale was at the forefront of the religious, philosophical, and scientific though of her time. In a three-volume work that was never published, Nightingale presented her radical spiritual views, motivated by the desire to give those who had turned away from conventional religion an alternative to atheism. In this volume Michael D. Calabria and Janet A. Macrae provide the essence of Nightingale's spiritual philosophy by selecting and reorganizing her best-written treatments. The editors have also provided an introduction and commentary to set the work into a biographical, historical, and philosophical context.

This volume illuminates a little-known dimension of Nightingale's personality, bringing forth the ideas that served as the guiding principles of her work. It is also an historical document, presenting the religious issues that were fiercely debated in the second half of the nineteenth century. In Suggestions for Thought, one has the opportunity to experience a great practical mind as it grapples with the most profound questions of human existence.

About the Author

Michael D. Calabria is a lecturer in modern languages at St. Bonaventure University. Janet A. Macrae is a registered nurse and author of Nursing as a Spiritual Practice.