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Florence Nightingale: Avenging Angel ハードカバー – 1999/11/20
英語版
Hugh Small
(著)
This study of the personality and achievements of Florence Nightingale is based on extensive research and unpublished material. She achieved fame for her leadership of a group of British nurses during the Crimean War, and afterwards she dedicated herself to promoting public health. Following a collapse at age 37, she remained bedridden for more than ten years and became one of history's most famous invalids. Hugh Small has produced a new and startling explanation of Florence Nightingale's actions, comparing the conflicting contemporary accounts of what really happened in her hospital at Scutari during the war and uncovering an official cover-up of a public health disaster for which Nightingale felt personally responsible.
- 本の長さ221ページ
- 言語英語
- 出版社Palgrave Macmillan
- 発売日1999/11/20
- 寸法16.51 x 1.91 x 25.4 cm
- ISBN-100312226993
- ISBN-13978-0312226992
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著者について
Hugh Small is now retired and living in North London.
Hugh Small is now retired and living in North London.
Hugh Small is now retired and living in North London.
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- 出版社 : Palgrave Macmillan (1999/11/20)
- 発売日 : 1999/11/20
- 言語 : 英語
- ハードカバー : 221ページ
- ISBN-10 : 0312226993
- ISBN-13 : 978-0312226992
- 寸法 : 16.51 x 1.91 x 25.4 cm
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I had always shared what I think is the popular image of Florence Nightingale as an icon of tedious virtue: she was much more complex: with enormous moral strength, she managed to build up a profile that led to her being put in charge of the nursing arrangements for the British forces in the Crimean War. She took charge of the Hospital in Scutari, a suburb of Constantinople; her patients were devoted to her: dying soldiers would lean out of their beds to kiss her shadow as she passed. The commanders of the English forces were a ghastly bunch: they included Lord Lucan, who had Fortnum hampers delivered to him at the front and regaled himself on the contents before his starving soldiers. When Nightingale sent them some better food, Lucan expressed outrage at wasting such luxuries on these "animals". Nightingale complained that her patients were transferred to Scutari after excessive delays and that they were already near death through malnutrition and wounds by the time they came to Scutari. When the war ended, Nightingale was lionized and the army command was excoriated.
However, when an official investigation was set up by political friends of Nightingale, it transpired that the death-rate in her hospital in Scutari had been astronomically higher than in the hospitals near the location of the fighting: the importance of hygienic sanitation was not generally accepted at the time of the Crimean War, so no account had been taken of the situation of the Scutari hospital: which was built over open sewers. When Nightingale realised that her fame was based on a false prospectus Nightingale had a mental breakdown and took to her bed for a decade. The interplay of her emotional response and the political manoeuvring that eventually led to England's adopting effective sewage and sanitation are analysed in subtle detail in this well-informed study. However, I would have welcomed a treatment that concentrated more on narrative and less on psychological speculation.
However, when an official investigation was set up by political friends of Nightingale, it transpired that the death-rate in her hospital in Scutari had been astronomically higher than in the hospitals near the location of the fighting: the importance of hygienic sanitation was not generally accepted at the time of the Crimean War, so no account had been taken of the situation of the Scutari hospital: which was built over open sewers. When Nightingale realised that her fame was based on a false prospectus Nightingale had a mental breakdown and took to her bed for a decade. The interplay of her emotional response and the political manoeuvring that eventually led to England's adopting effective sewage and sanitation are analysed in subtle detail in this well-informed study. However, I would have welcomed a treatment that concentrated more on narrative and less on psychological speculation.