Florence Nightingale at First Hand: Vision, Power, Legacy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781441132550)

Florence Nightingale is one of the most famous figures in modern history. Yet much of what we know of her emanates from unreliable second-hand accounts, and from a misreading of the primary sources.

Florence Nightingale at First Hand by Lynn McDonald, editor of Nightingale's Collected Works, and the world's foremost Nightingale authority, aims to put this right. This is a book which reports what Florence Nightingale said and did, based on her writing, of which a massive amount survives, scattered in over two hundred archives throughout the world.

Published to commemorate the centenary of Nightingale's death, McDonald's study presents a Florence Nightingale for the twenty-first century, as an author of great style and wit, a systems thinker and pioneering public health reformer - the heroine and nurse were only the start.

Author: Lynn McDonald
ISBN-10: 1441132554
ISBN-13: 9781441132550
Publisher: Continuum
Language: English
Published: 09/03/2010
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d