Victorian medicine and social reform : Florence Nightingale among the novelists /
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
Series: | Nineteenth-century major lives and letters.
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Table of 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.