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Sto caricando le informazioni... Heart and Soul: The Story of Florence Nightingaledi Gena K. Gorrell
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. A biography of Florence Nightingale, beginning with her early life as a child, and continuing through her nursing career. Florence Nightingale is a beloved historical figure, thought of as compassionate, warm, and likable. Heart and Soul paints a more adequate picture from the time Florence was a young girl to her atrophy. The infuriated young woman who wanted to follow her dreams and help others of lower standing, was halted by the expectations of her social standing. This exasperated woman worked vigorously to get her way, by any means possible. Although Florence gained much support and love from commoners, she acquired as many enemies on her journey to reform the gruesome state of hospitals in her time. Although the belief of her compassion is true, "the lady with the lamp" neglected to stay compassionate for herself, leaving her frail at a young age. Despite her supposed ailments, Florence's work continued in her writings and influence. Although at times, one feels indifferent to the extravagance of Miss Nightingale's personality, it is just as easy to grasp the necessity of her woes. In a time when the rich were not to work, this women worked harder than any before to change a system that was pitted against her. All of the love and adoration toward Florence Nightingale is deserved and she literally gave her entire life to the work of bettering a system that was lackadaisical in the safekeeping of the sick and dying. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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In Florence Nightingale's day, if a person was sick - and lucky - he or she was nursed at home with caring family members tending the bedside. Hospitals were horrible places from which few emerged alive. The nurses were often drunks and prostitutes. Doctors had rudimentary skills. Thus the privileged Nightingale family was appalled when Florence, who had done her share of household nursing, announced that she wanted to train to work in a hospital. After all, her role was cut out for her: she was to be a decorative, witty lady. A career, much less nursing, was out of the question. It took many years, but Florence found her calling in Crimea. More English soldiers died of sickness there than died in battle. If they were wounded they were almost sure to suffer in misery, lying on pallets caked with old blood, hungry and thirsty, without anyone to offer them so much as a sip of water. Florence caused a revolution in her insistence for cleanliness, wholesome food, and kind treatment of men, who were considered to be nothing more than cannon fodder. Florence's campaign resulted in reforms to health care for millions of people. Although she was in frail health for much of her life, her sense of outrage and her extraordinary stamina in the face of prejudice and almost criminal ignorance make her story one of the most inspiring in history. Dozens of photographs, posters, and cartoons bring the past to life in this memorable biography. From the Hardcover edition. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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