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Dossey delivers an exquisite and timeless classic on the life of a nursing icon.
Philadelphia, PA, August 3, 2009: Florence Nightingale: Mystic, Visionary, Healer by Barbara Montgomery Dossey, published by F.A. Davis Company, describes the life and times of the extraordinary women whose passion, dedication, and determination helped to shape the course of modern health care.
This lavishly illustrated biography celebrates the life and work of Florence Nightingale on the 100th anniversary of her death. With meticulous scholarship, the author documents the struggles and achievements of a woman who defied the conventions and standards of Victorian England to blaze her own path. Archival photographs, drawings, letters, maps, and a riveting narrative create a portrait of this complex, larger than life woman who is still a source of inspiration today. Her vision for all that nursing could be is a vision to which nursing still aspires.
Florence Nightingale: Mystic, Visionary, Healer is available in a standard edition (ISBN 13: 978-0-8036-2169-5) and a deluxe edition (ISBN 13: 978-0-8036-2282-1) which features gold-gilded edges, richly colored endpapers, and a satin bookmark finely bound in the deluxe cover. Both editions of this book are available at bookstores or directly from F.A. Davis Company. For more information call 215-568-2712 or visit www.fadavis.com.
About the author
Barbara Montgomery Dossey, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN, is internationally recognized as a pioneer in the holistic nursing movement. She is International Co-Director and board member of the Nightingale Initiative for Global Health (NIGH), Washington, DC and Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and Director, Holistic Nursing Consultants in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Her collaborative global nursing project, the Nightingale Declaration Campaign (NDC) has developed two UN Resolution proposals for adoption—2010: International Year of the Nurse and 2011-2020: UN Decade for a Healthy World.
A Florence Nightingale scholar and an author or co-author of 23 books, she is an eight-time recipient of the prestigious American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award. Among her many awards are the 1985 Holistic Nurse of the Year by the American Holistic Nurses’ Association; the 1998 Healer of the Year by the Nurse Healers Professional Associates International, Inc.; the 1999 Pioneering Spirit Award by the American Association of Critical Care Nurses; the 1999 Scientific and Medical Network Book of the Year by the Scientific and Medical Network, United Kingdom.
About F.A. Davis Company
F.A. Davis Company, an independent publisher since 1879, has been publishing titles to meet the needs of generations of health care providers. Today, F.A. Davis carries on that tradition through its catalog of books, electronic, and online products for students, educators, and clinicians in Nursing, Medicine, and the Health Sciences. Its flagship titles, Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary and Davis’s Drug Guide for Nurses, are among the most trusted names in health care publishing. For more information, visit www.fadavis.com.
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