Florence Nightingale and the Health of the Raj

Jharna Gourlay, Ole Peter Grell, Jharna Gourlay

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English

Routledge
28 November 2003

Asian history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; History of medicine; Nursing

Series: The History of Medicine in Context

Although the life of Florence Nightingale is a much-trodden territory, her involvement with India and Indians is relatively unknown. This is surprising as she was concerned with Indian affairs from 1857 to 1894. This book presents in detail this aspect of her life and work, and shows how she progressed from being concerned with the narrow sphere of army sanitation to the socio-economic condition of the whole of India. Despite her interest in the country, Florence Nightingale never actually visited India. But she still managed to instigate and inspire a number of sanitary and social reforms there. Starting in 1857 with army sanitation she had, by the end of her involvement with India in 1894, shifted her attention to such social issues as village sanitation and female education. In between, she was involved with the development of hospitals, irrigation, famine relief, the land tenure system in Bengal, urban sanitation and female nursing. In this volume, Jharna Gourlay covers all these aspects of Florence Nightingale's work, tracing her political involvement and her growing awareness of Indian problems, showing how she gradually moved from an imperialist position to one advocating power-sharing Indians. Her story is also one of how a private individual without official position - and, moreover, a woman in a patriarchal society - could influence government policy and public opinion on matters of immense importance. Based on primary sources from both Britain and India, particularly her own correspondence and articles, this book tells Florence Nightingale's story though her own words, whilst simultaneously placing it in the wider historical context.

By: Jharna Gourlay, Jharna Gourlay
Series edited by: Ole Peter Grell
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780754633648
ISBN 10: 0754633640
Series: The History of Medicine in Context
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 28 November 2003
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents: Preface; Florence Nightingale and her times (1820-1910); Hygiene as the handmaid of civilization; The governess of the governors; A brief encounter: Florence Nightingale and the Bengal Social Science Association; The Zemindar, the sun and the watering pot; The Ryot's faithful servant; Florence and Ripon; two old comrades; The health missioners for rural India; Florence and the Zenana force; A private endeavour in public health; A chronology of Florence Nightingale's Indian work; Glossary; Some important personalities and correspondents relating to Nightingale's Indian work; Bibliography; Index.

Dr Jharna Gourlay, educated in Calcutta and London, was a lecturer in philosophy in the University of Lucknow. Later she joined the BBC External Services as a producer. She also worked for BBC Radio Leicester, English by Radio and Television, and Lambeth Education. At present she is researching the contribution of British women towards female medical education in 19th Century India.

Reviews for Florence Nightingale and the Health of the Raj

'...impressively researched in both British and Indian sources...' Times Literary Supplement 'This is the first book to examine in detail Florence Nightingale's contributions to public health and welfare in India. Drawing on primary source material from Britain and India, Gourlay recounts how Nightingale went beyond reforming the working conditions of the British army in India, to improving sanitary services, and ultimately becoming the advocate for the riots, the peasants who constituted 80 percent of the population. Recommended. General readers; upper-level undergraduates and graduate students; professionals and practitioners.' Choice ' This is a book to delight any historian - massively researched, clearly and economically written, and with a full academic apparatus, but above all dealing with an important aspect of British India which will be new ground for almost all British historians.' Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 'The author should be highly commended for this work. She presents ten chapters full of detailed accounts of Nightingale's involvement in Indian affairs... Florence Nightingale and the Health of the Raj is an important text that can be used as reference and motivation for the historical scholar... All in all, this text is an essential contribution to the health care humanities field because of its historical and literary significance. Florence Nightingale and the Health of the Raj will be of interest to scholars of Indian health care, public health, nursing, and the emerging area of twenty-first -century historical inquiry: global cross fertilization of health care knowledge and practices.' Nursing History Review 'The material is fascinating, and the tale well told.' Bulletin of the History of Medicine 'Gourlay has provided a concise and readable overview of an important Victorian's contribution to imperial policies and practices relating to India. She has also added immensely to the scholarship about Nightingale, pl