Victorian medicine and social reform : Florence Nightingale among the novelists / Louise Penner.

  • Penner, Louise.
Date:
2010
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Publication/Creation

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Physical description

xxi, 193 pages : 1 illustration ; 22 cm.

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-183) and index.

Contents

Defending home and country : Florence Nightingale's training of domestic detectives -- On giving : poor law reform, work, and family in Nightingale, Dickens, and Stretton -- Competing visions : Nightingale, Eliot, and Victorian health reform -- Engaging the Victorian reading public : Nightingale and the Madras Famine of 1876 -- Epilogue : Nightingale in the twenty-first century : the legend versus the life.

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    History of Medicine
    BZP (Nightingale)
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  • 9780230615953
  • 0230615953