Florence Nightingale, Mortality and Health Diagrams

Description

A new illustrated essay by data storyteller RJ Andrews titled God’s Revenge Upon Murder chronicles the motivation and craft behind Florence Nightingale and her team and takes up the first half of this volume. Andrews is a professional data storyteller and author of Info We Trust. He created this book in San Francisco during the Covid-19 pandemic while advising America’s national public health response. The book also contains an introduction by Nightingale historian Lynn McDonald.

The volume concludes with a colourful graphic catalogue that reproduces both of Nightingale’s coxcomb folios. A complete set of her statistical diagrams includes several foldout charts and a graphic appendix with hand-drawn drafts of her diagrams. Those included are: Mortality of the British Army, at Home, at Home and Abroad, and During the Russian War, as Compared with the Mortality of the Civil Population in England, 1858, and Contribution to the Sanitary History of the British Army During the Late War with Russia, 1859. Florence Nightingale is known by every schoolchild as The Lady of the Lamp, but she was also the first female member of the London Statistical Society, later the Royal Statistical Society. This book is a thing of beauty, lovingly put together it draws you into not only Nightingale’s charts, but Andrews well-crafted illustrated essay. A fascinating read, and definitely not just for professional statisticians.

This volume is part of Information Graphic Visionaries, a book series celebrating spectacular data visualization creators with original research, new writing, and beautiful visual catalogues. Inaugural volumes also include Emma Willard, Maps of History and Étienne-Jules Marey, The Graphic Method.

Author – Florence Nightingale

Edited – R J Andrews

Format – Hardback

Publisher – Visionary Press

Pub date – 2022

ISBN – 9798986194516

Pages – 239

Dimensions – 208mm x286mm

Weight – 1121g