Florence Nightingale's Notes on Nursing and Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes: Commemorative Edition with Historical Commentary

by Victor Skretkowicz PhD (Editor)

Overview

"With the 2010 publication of Dr. Victor Skretkowicz's Florence Nightingale's Notes on Nursing (Revised with Additions) in Florence Nightingale's (1920-1910) centenary year, nurses and others will recognize this extraordinary woman whose dedication and determination helped to shape the course of modern global healthcare and holistic and integral relationship-centered care."

-Barbara Dossey, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN International Co-Director, Nightingale Initiative for Global Health Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and Arlington, Virginia

Simultaneously witty, scathing, and anecdotal, Florence Nightingale's "Notes on Nursing" is perhaps the most influential work on nursing throughout the world. For years, the varying editions of this seminal work have puzzled scholars as well as readers. Now, Dr. Skretkowicz sets the historical record straight. This volume includes the annotated and unabridged July 1860 edition [the "Library Standard Edition"] of Notes on Nursing, the 1868 edition of Notes on Nursing [for the Labouring Classes], and additional manuscripts written by Nightingale in 1875 that she was never able to publish.

Beautifully bound in faux leather with a decorative ribbon, this commemorative volume makes a perfect gift for any nurse and is a must-have for all nursing libraries and researchers. The new edition presents Nightingale's unabridged edition in its original form for the very first time since its publication in July 1860. Together with the 1868 edition and the 1875 manuscripts, the book provides today's educated readership with the nearest possible "authoritative, complete, and unexpurgated" version of "one of the best selling, globally circulated texts of the nineteenth century."

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826118431
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	05/27/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	480
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Victor Skretkowicz (deceased) was a Senior Lecturer in English, University of Dundee (Scotland). Dr. Skretkowicz was a highly recognized and accomplished professor, scholar, author and researcher in English literature, including Shakespeare, Early English Fiction, and Elizabethan and Renaissance studies. His work on Florence Nightingale emerged as a result of several grants related to conducting bibliographic studies of her work. He published 28 reviews and review articles in refereed journals and delivered 45 papers in the UK and internationally. Dr. Skretkowicz’s reputation as a scholar is evidenced by his external recognition and awards, including serving as External Assessor on Promotion (Cambridge University), Fellowship Assessor for the Newberry Library (Chicago), Major Research Awards Assessor, Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada (2001), External Examiner for the PhD (Univ. of Glasgow), and External Assessor for Promotions (UCLA), among others. Dr. Skretkowicz served on two Editorial Boards, including Oxford Univ. Press.

Table of Contents

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Foreword
Acknowledgments
Preface - About this Edition

Part One - INTRODUCTION to this EDITION
I - A Brief History
The First Version
The Second Version
The Third Version
II - Planning and Publishing
1. The First Version
2. The Second Version
3. The Third Version
i - The 1861 Edition
ii - The 1868 Edition
iii - The Unpublished 1875 Edition
III - Conclusion

Part Two -NOTES ON NURSING: What it is and what it is not - Complete & Unabridged
IV - Digest [Nightingale's summary of the Contents]
V - Florence Nightingale's Notes on Nursing: Based on the second version, the Library Standard Edition (1860)
VI - A Guide to Identification

Part Three - NOTES ON NURSING for the LABOURING CLASSES (1868 edition)
VII - Introduction to NNLC by author
VIII - Reprint of the 1868 edition of Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes

Index

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