The Rules of Contagion

(Greg DeLong) #1

  1. ‘Mayor launches new public health approach to tackling serious
    violence’, London City Hall press release, 19 September 2018;
    Bulman M., ‘Woman who helped dramatically reduce youth
    murders in Scotland urges London to treat violence as a
    “disease”’, The Independent, 5 April 2018.

  2. Background on Nightingale’s Crimea work from: Gill C.J. and
    Gill G.C., ‘Nightingale in Scutari: Her Legacy Reexamined’,
    Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2005; Nightingale F., Notes on
    Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency, and Hospital
    Administration of the British Army: Founded Chiefly on the
    Experience of the Late War (London, 1858); Magnello M.E.,
    ‘Victorian statistical graphics and the iconography of Florence
    Nightingale’s polar area graph’, Journal of the British Society for
    the History of Mathematics Bulletin, 2012.

  3. Nelson S. and Rafferty A.M., Notes on Nightingale: The
    Influence and Legacy of a Nursing Icon (Cornell University Press,
    2012).

  4. Background on Farr from: Lilienfeld D.E., ‘Celebration: William
    Farr (1807–1883) – an appreciation on the 200th anniversary of
    his birth’, International Journal of Epidemiology, 2007;
    Humphreys N.A., ‘Vital statistics: a memorial volume of selections
    from the reports and writings of William Farr’, The Sanitary
    Institute of Great Britain, 1885.

  5. Nightingale F., A Contribution to the Sanitary History of the
    British Army During the Late War with Russia (London, 1859).

  6. Quoted in: Diamond M. and Stone M., ‘Nightingale on Quetelet’,
    Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A, 1981.

  7. Cook E., The Life of Florence Nightingale (London, 1913).

  8. Quoted in: MacDonald L., Florence Nightingale on Society and
    Politics, Philosophy, Science, Education and Literature (Wilfrid
    Laurier University Press, 2003).

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