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Florence Nightingale

a research-based approach to health, healthcare and hospital safety

Lynn McDonald

pp. 59-74

Abstract

Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) is known for her work in the Crimean War (1854–1856), the founding of professional nursing after it and her pioneering work in statistics, but less for her social research approach to health, healthcare and hospital safety, or her contribution to sociological theory more generally.

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Published in:

Collyer Fran (2015) The Palgrave handbook of social theory in health, illness and medicine. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 59-74

DOI: 10.1057/9781137355621_4

Full citation:

McDonald Lynn (2015) „Florence Nightingale: a research-based approach to health, healthcare and hospital safety“, In: F. Collyer (ed.), The Palgrave handbook of social theory in health, illness and medicine, Dordrecht, Springer, 59–74.