The Rise of Mental Health Nursing
A History of Psychiatric Care in Dutch Asylums, 1890-1920
Distributed for Amsterdam University Press
304 pages
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© 2003
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
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter I - Asylum Reform Ideals: Personnel Matters
Chapter II - The Ideal of a Mental Hospital
Chapter III - Female Compassion: Mental Nurse Training
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
Introduction
Chapter I - Asylum Reform Ideals: Personnel Matters
Chapter II - The Ideal of a Mental Hospital
Chapter III - Female Compassion: Mental Nurse Training
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
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