Extraordinary Nurses Throughout History;In Honour of Florence Nightingale

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Extraordinary Nurses Throughout History;In Honour of Florence Nightingale - Hardcover

Extraordinary Nurses Throughout History;In Honour of Florence Nightingale - Hardcover

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Extraordinary Nurses Throughout History is a fascinating collection that includes insightful writings on eight notable nurses of the past and celebrates their brilliant contributions to medicine.

Many incredible women made invaluable improvements to modern nursing and this collection celebrates their lives and achievements through a series of essays. This volume sheds a light on the women who have helped create and improve the modern nursing we are familiar with today and demonstrates how the practice has evolved. Collated in honour of Florence Nightingale's 200th birthday, this collection is an enlightening exposition of eight notable nurses including:

    - Dorothea Dix
    - Mary Seacole
    - Florence Nightingale
    - Clara Barton
    - Sarah Emma Edmonds
    - Linda Richards
    - Edith Cavell
    - Violetta Thursten

Republished Read & Co. Books as part of the Brilliant Women series, this beautiful volume features an introductory essay entitled 'Representative Women - The Free Nurse', by Ingleby Scott. An ideal book for those with an interest in the history of nursing, this collection is not one to be missed.

Number of Pages: 180
Dimensions: 0.56 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: October 07, 2022
ISBN9781528772303
Author Various
PublisherBrilliant Women - Read & Co.
GenreBiography and History
FormatHardcover
PublishedOctober 2022
LanguageENG- English
Pages180
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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James Nagel, Edison Distonguished Professor of English at the University of Georgia, has edited several collections on the works of Ernest Hemingway, Stephen Crane, and Hamlin Garland, as well as the Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics edition of John Steinbeck's Pastures of Heaven.Tom Quirk is the Catherine Paine Middlebush Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is the editor of the Penguin Classics editions of Mark Twain's Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches (1994) and Ambrose Bierce's Tales of Soldiers and Civilians and Other Stories (2000) and co-editor of The Portable American Realism Reader (1997). His other books include Coming to Grips with Huckleberry Finn (1993), Mark Twain: A Study of the Short Fiction (1997) and Nothing Abstract: Investigations in the American Literary Imagination (2001).

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