Books by Lynn McDonald

Florence Nightingale: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works covers her life and works. The extensive A to Z section includes over a hundred entries. The bibliography provides a comprehensive list of publications concerning her life and work.

Provides an analysis of Florence Nightingale's legacy that goes beyond established scholarship to examine her lesser known-and arguably even more important-writings beyond Notes on Nursing. The book demonstrates afresh her unparalleled and ongoing influence on professional nursing, on the core concepts of health, disease, and access to care as we understand them today.

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.