scholarly journals Corrigendum: Florence Nightingale, statistics and the Crimean War

2017 ◽  
Vol 180 (4) ◽  
pp. 1319-1319
Author(s):  
Lynn McDonald
Keyword(s):  
Crimean War ◽  
Florence Nightingale

WRITING AS FEMALE NATIONAL AND IMPERIAL RESPONSIBILITY: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE'S SCHEME FOR SOCIAL AND CULTURAL REFORMS IN ENGLAND AND INDIA

2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chieko Ichikawa
Keyword(s):  
Crimean War ◽  
Victorian Era ◽  
Florence Nightingale ◽  
The Crimea ◽  
Popular Subject ◽  
The Ideal

Florence Nightingale, who becamea national heroine after the Crimean War, was the most popular subject in hagiographical collective biographies of women during the mid- and late-1850s. However, her life can be regarded as a resolute resistance to conformity with the ideal of womanhood in the Victorian era. She recognised the chasm between her popularity and reality:Good public! It knew nothing of what I was really doing in the Crimea.Good public! It has known nothing of what I wanted to do & have done since I came home. (Private note from 1857; Nightingale,Ever Yours177–78)This statement implies the resistance to the misrepresentation of her, which is indicative of her inner struggle to search for a means to express her vision.

Health, Hearth and Empire: Climate, Race and Reproduction in British India and Western Australia

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth A. Morgan
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
White Women ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
British India ◽  
Crimean War ◽  
Florence Nightingale ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sanitary Conditions

In the wake of the Indian Uprising in 1857, British sanitary campaigner and statistician Florence Nightingale renewed her efforts to reform Britain's military forces at home and in India. With the Uprising following so soon after the Crimean War (1854-56), where poor sanitary conditions had also taken an enormous toll, in 1859 Nightingale pressed the British Parliament to establish a Royal Commission on the Sanitary State of the Army in India, which delivered its report in 1863. Western Australia was the only colony to present its case before the Commissioners as an ideal location for a foreign sanatorium, with glowing assessments offered by colonial elites and military physicians. In the meantime, Nightingale had also commenced an investigation into the health of Indigenous children across the British Empire. Nearly 150 schools responded to her survey from Ceylon, Natal, West Africa, Canada and Australia. The latter's returns came from just three schools in Western Australia: New Norcia, Annesfield in Albany and the Sisters of Mercy in Perth, which together yielded the highest death rate of the respondents. Although Nightingale herself saw these inquiries as separate, their juxtaposition invites closer analysis of the ways in which metropolitan elites envisioned particular racial futures for Anglo and indigenous populations of empire, and sought to steer them accordingly. The reports reflect prevailing expectations and anxieties about the social and biological reproduction of white society in the colonies, and the concomitant decline of Indigenous peoples. Read together, these two inquiries reveal the complex ways in which colonial matters of reproduction and dispossession, displacement and replacement, were mutually constituting concerns of empire. In this article I situate the efforts to attract white women and their wombs to the temperate colony of Western Australia from British India in the context of contemporary concerns about Anglo and Aboriginal mortality. In doing so, I reflect on the intersections of gender, race, medicine and environment in the imaginaries of empire in the mid-nineteenth century.

"I Have Done My Duty": Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War, 1854-56. Sue M. Goldie

Isis ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 371-371
Author(s):  
Charles E. Rosenberg
Keyword(s):  
Crimean War ◽  
Florence Nightingale

From Charity to Caring

2010 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 284-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise C. Selanders ◽  
Karen Lake ◽  
Patrick Crane
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Home ◽  
Women's Education ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Crimean War ◽  
Public Figure ◽  
The Public ◽  
Florence Nightingale ◽  
Primary Documents ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Education And Employment

Florence Nightingale has been the subject of numerous biographies and topical studies since she became a public figure during the Crimean War of 1854-1856. However, both the biographical and the topical literature have given little emphasis to the fourteen months of Nightingale’s superintendency at The Establishment for Gentlewomen During Illness located on Harley Street, London. Thematic analysis of primary documents including Nightingale’s Quarterly Reports to the Governors of her Nursing Home and the recently identified found Minutes of the Ladies’ Committee of the Establishment of Gentlewomen During Illness were utilized to identify specific themes considered essential to Nightingale’s professional and philosophical development. Harley Street proved to be the catalyst of opportunity that later launched her into the public view as a visionary through which she was to develop nursing as a profession and promote nursing as a legitimate route for women’s education and employment.

scholarly journals Florence Nightingale bicentennial: 1820-2020. Her contributions to health care improvement

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dinu I. Dumitrascu ◽  
Liliana David ◽  
Dan L Dumitrascu ◽  
Liliana Rogozea
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
British Empire ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Crimean War ◽  
Florence Nightingale ◽  
Health Care Improvement ◽  
The World ◽  
Care Improvement ◽  
Personal Engagement

In 2020 we celebrate the bicentennial of the birth of Florence Nightingale and 110 years from her death (1820-1910). This gives us the opportunity to remember her life and her achievements. She is mainly known for her contribution to the foundation of modern nursing in the British Empire and subsequently to the world. Besides her personal engagement in the Crimean War, she organized a professional training for nurses, wrote the first textbook on nursing (“Notes on Nursing”) and took public positions in favor of health care and philanthropic funding. She was a militant for the rights of the women and for social justice. She was a pioneer of medical statistics and hospital management. Her activity is acknowledged worldwide.

scholarly journals Problems of Ethics and Scholarship in Nursing Publications

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn McDonald
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Home Country ◽  
Crimean War ◽  
Diversity And Inclusion ◽  
Florence Nightingale ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Mary Seacole ◽  
Heavy Work ◽  
High Standards

This article relates the flagrant instances of misinformation on Florence Nightingale, the major founder of professional nursing, in 2020, the bicentenary of her birth, and 2021. It notes the new trend to “pair” Nightingale with another supposed “nursing pioneer,” who was a businesswoman and generous volunteer, Mary Seacole, but who never portrayed herself as a nurse. The article goes on to cite the promotion of misinformation on the two by no less than the Queen, in her Christmas message of 2020, and by her heir, the Prince of Wales, on 12 May 2021, Nightingale’s birthday and International Nurses Day. The most extreme example of misinformation is that of the prince, who claimed joint status for Seacole with Nightingale in achieving the sanitary reforms in the Crimean War that saved large numbers of lives. Unlike Seacole, Nightingale played a role in these reforms, but credited the doctors and engineers of the Sanitary Commission who did the heavy work of renovation. The article calls for high standards of ethics and scholarship in nursing and health care publication. Health authorities, such as Britain’s National Health Service, should be the source of reliable information, especially in a pandemic. Misinformation on mere “historical” matters, not clinical, is not acceptable. Diversity and inclusion are valid goals of any health care system, but should be pursued with integrity. The article introduces a fine Black nursing leader, Kofoworola Abeni Pratt, who is ignored and yet should be celebrated for her contributions to nursing both in England and her home country, Nigeria.

Florence nightingale: The crimean war and Covid-19 senate

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 492-494
Author(s):  
Samruddhi A. Awasare ◽  
Sonali Waghmare
Keyword(s):  
Crimean War ◽  
Florence Nightingale
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