The rise of mental health nursing : a history of psychiatric care in Dutch asylums, 1890-1920 / Geertje Boschma.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boschma, Geertje, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychiatric nursing--Netherlands--History--19th century.

Psychiatric nursing.

Psychiatric nursing--Netherlands--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Dutch asylums, Boschma highlights the gendered nature of mental health nursing politics, and captures the contradictory realities of hospital-oriented asylum care, both illustrating the social complexity of the care of the mentally ill and offering an important addition to the history of European psychiatry.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Feb 2021).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-312) and index.

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ISBN:

9786610958757

9781280958755

1280958758

9789048505074

9048505070

9780585495354

0585495351

OCLC:

54428602