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Florence Nightingale: A Research-Based Approach to Health, Healthcare and Hospital Safety

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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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  1. University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada

    Lynn McDonald (University Professor Emerita)

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    Fran Collyer (Associate Professor) (Associate Professor)

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McDonald, L. (2015). Florence Nightingale: A Research-Based Approach to Health, Healthcare and Hospital Safety. In: Collyer, F. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Social Theory in Health, Illness and Medicine. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137355621_4

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