Florence Nightingale on wars and the War Office / Lynn McDonald, editor.

" ... picks up on the previous volume's recounting of Nightingale's famous work during the Crimean War and the comprehensive analysis she did on its high death rates. This volume moves on to the implementation of recommendations that emerged from that research and to her work to reduce deaths in the next wars, beginning with the American Civil War"--Cover pages [4]

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Couverture -- THE COLLECTED WORKS OF FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- DRAMATIS PERSONAE -- FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE: A PR�CIS OF HER LIFE -- AN INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME 15 -- Nightingale�s Approach to War -- KEY TO EDITING -- ARMY NURSING IN PEACE AND IN WAR -- Subsidiary Notes as to the Introduction of Female Nursing into Military Hospitals in Peace and in War -- WAR OFFICE REFORM IN PEACETIME -- Army Hospitals -- ��Army Sanitary Administration under the Late Lord Herbert��

The Formation and Early Years of the Army Medical SchoolSoldiers� Welfare -- WARS FROM THE GENEVA CONVENTION TO THE BOER WAR -- The Geneva Convention and Red Cross -- The American Civil War -- The Franco-Prussian War -- The Austro-Prussian War -- The ��Eastern Question��: Turkey, Russia and the Balkan Wars -- The Second Afghan War 1878-80 -- The Anglo-Zulu and Transvaal Wars -- The Egyptian Campaigns -- Egypt and Sudan in 1885 -- The Boer War 1899-1902 -- Last Work and a Retrospective on War and Militarism

APPENDIX A: (BRIEF) BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES(1) Nurses and Volunteer Aid Workers (in Alphabetical Order) -- (2) Directors General of the Army Medical Department (in Chronological Order) -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- BACK COVER

Volume 15 of the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Wars and the War Office, picks up on the previous volume's recounting of Nightingale's famous work during the Crimean War and the comprehensive analysis she did on its high death rates. This volume moves on to the implementation of the recommendations that emerged from that research and to her work to reduce deaths in the next wars, beginning with the American Civil War. Nightingale's writings describe the creation of the Army Medical School, the vast improvements made in the statistical tracking of disease, and new measures for soldiers' welfare. Her role in the formulation of the first Geneva Convention in 1864 is related, along with her concern that voluntary relief efforts through the Red Cross not make war "cheap." Nightingale was decorated by both sides for her work in the Franco-Prussian War. While much of her work concerned the mundane sending out of supplies, we see also in her writing her emerging interest in militarism as the cause of war. Her opposition to the Afghan War (of her time) and her work to provide nursing for the Egyptian campaigns, the Zulu War, and the start of the Boer War are also included

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