The rise of mental health nursing a history of psychiatric care in Dutch asylums, 1890-1920

Geertje Boschma's complex study examines issues from the rise of scientific psychiatry and the emergence of mental health nursing to the social relationships of class, gender, and religion that structured asylum care in the Netherlands around 1900. Drawing on the archival collections of four Du...

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Autor principal: Boschma, Geertje (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press c2003.
Amsterdam : [2003]
Edición:1st ed
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009427377306719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front matter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter I. Asylum Reform Ideals: Personnel Matters
  • Chapter II. The Ideal of a Mental Hospital
  • Chapter III. Female Compassion: Mental Nurse Training Gendered Female
  • Chapter IV. The Burdensome Task of Nurses
  • Chapter V. Negotiating Class and Culture
  • Chapter VI. The Marginalization of Male Nurses
  • Chapter VII. Controversy and Conflict over the Social Position of Nurses
  • Conclusion: The Politics of Mental Health Nursing
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Abbreviations
  • List of Archives
  • Bibliography
  • Index