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Appendix: Sources of Quotes in the Dialogue
- In the hospital tents of the Crimea … Nightingale (1871, pp. 12,13)
- I shall be very grateful … Vicinus and Nergaard, ed. (1989, p. 222)
- deserved a Victoria Cross … Woodham-Smith (1952, p. 315)
- however exhausted … Woodham-Smith (1952, p. 268)
- It may seem a strange principle … Nightingale (1863, p. iii)
- … an urgent appeal … Nightingale (1863, p. 175)
- In comparing the deaths … Nightingale (1859, p. 97)
- enable us to ascertain … what diseases. Nightingale (1863, p. 159)
- ascertaining whether any particular cause of death … Nightingale (1871, pp. 1,3)
- For every two women who would die … Nightingale (1871, p. 68)
- I collected my figures … Cook (1913, vol. 2, p. 396)
- For me, this passionate study … Bibby (1986, p. 115)
- I cannot say how the death of Quetelet … Cook (1913, vol.2, p. 238)
- I want everyone to understand … Open University (1995)
- The true foundation of theology … David (1962, p. 103)
- We …do not consider the human mind capable … Nightingale (1860, p. 58)
- The proportion of recoveries … Nightingale (1863, p. 5)
- Too kind, too kind. Woodham-Smith (1952, p. 430)