EAN: 9783030465339

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE AT HOME - PAUL CRAWFORD AN...

Winner of the 2021 2022 People's Book Prize Best Achievement Award Homes can be both comforting
and troubling places. This timely book proposes a new understanding of Florence Nightingale's
experiences of domestic life and how ideas of home influenced her writings and pioneering work.
From her childhood homes in Derbyshire and Hampshire  she visited the poor sick in their
cottages. As a young woman  feeling imprisoned at home  she broke free to become a woman of
action  bringing home comforts to the soldiers in the Crimean War and advising the British
population on the home front how to create healthier  contagion-free homes. Later  she created
Nightingale Homes for nursing trainees and acted as mother-in-chief to her extended family of
nurses. These efforts  inspired by her Christian faith and training in human care from
religious houses  led to major changes in professional nursing and public health  as
Nightingale strove for homely  compassionate care in Britain and around the world. Shedid most
of this work from her bed after contracting the debilitating illness  brucellosis  in the
Crimea  turning her various private homes into offices and 'households of faith'. In the year
of the bicentenary of her birth  she remains as relevant as ever  achieving an astonishing
cultural afterlife.

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