Victorian Medicine and Social Reform - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Victorian Medicine and Social Reform write by L. Penner. This book was released on 2010-04-26. Victorian Medicine and Social Reform available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Victorian Medicine and Social Reform traces Florence Nightingale s career as a reformer and Crimean war heroine. Her fame as a social activist and her writings including Notes on Nursing and Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency and Hospital Administration of the British Army influenced novelists such as Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot. Their novels of social realism, in turn, influenced Nightingale's later essays on poverty and Indian famine. This study draws original conclusions on the relationship between Nightingale s work and its historical context, gender politics, and such twenty-first-century analogues as celebrity activists Angelina Jolie, Al Gore, and Nicole Kidman.
Prostitution and Victorian Social Reform
Prostitution and Victorian Social Reform - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prostitution and Victorian Social Reform write by Paul McHugh. This book was released on 2013-06-26. Prostitution and Victorian Social Reform available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the mid-nineteenth century many parts of England and Wales were still subjected to a system of regulated prostitution which, by identifying and detaining for treatment infected prostitutes, aimed to protect members of the armed forces (94 per cent of whom were forbidden to marry) from venereal diseases. The coercive nature of the Contagious Diseases Acts and the double standard which allowed the continuance of prostitution on the ground that the prostitute 'herself the supreme type of vice, she is ultimately the most efficient guardian of virtue', aroused the ire of many reformers, not only women’s rights campaigners. Paul McHugh analyses the social composition of the different repeal and reform movements – the liberal reformists, the passionate struggle of the charismatic Josephine Butler, the Tory reformers whose achievement was in the improvement of preventative medicine, and finally the Social Purity movement of the 1880s which favoured a coercive approach. This is a fascinating study of ideals and principles in action, of pressure-group strategy, and of individual leaders in the repeal movement’s sixteen year progress to victory. The book was originally publised in 1980.
Florence Nightingale: The Crimean War
Florence Nightingale: The Crimean War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Florence Nightingale: The Crimean War write by Lynn McDonald. This book was released on 2011-02-01. Florence Nightingale: The Crimean War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Florence Nightingale is famous as the “lady with the lamp” in the Crimean War, 1854—56. There is a massive amount of literature on this work, but, as editor Lynn McDonald shows, it is often erroneous, and films and press reporting on it have been even less accurate. The Crimean War reports on Nightingale’s correspondence from the war hospitals and on the staggering amount of work she did post-war to ensure that the appalling death rate from disease (higher than that from bullets) did not recur. This volume contains much on Nightingale’s efforts to achieve real reforms. Her well-known, and relatively “sanitized”, evidence to the royal commission on the war is compared with her confidential, much franker, and very thorough Notes on the Health of the British Army, where the full horrors of disease and neglect are laid out, with the names of those responsible.
Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick
Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick write by Christopher Hamlin. This book was released on 1998-02-13. Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A revisionist account of the story of the foundations of public health in industrial revolution Britain.
The Future of Public Health
The Future of Public Health - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Future of Public Health write by Committee for the Study of the Future of Public Health. This book was released on 1988-01-15. The Future of Public Health available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The Nation has lost sight of its public health goals and has allowed the system of public health to fall into 'disarray'," from The Future of Public Health. This startling book contains proposals for ensuring that public health service programs are efficient and effective enough to deal not only with the topics of today, but also with those of tomorrow. In addition, the authors make recommendations for core functions in public health assessment, policy development, and service assurances, and identify the level of government--federal, state, and local--at which these functions would best be handled.
