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

• VerfasserIn: Boschma, Geertje,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, 2003.
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (324 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Feb 2021).
• Other title: 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
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-312) and index.
• ISBN: 1280958758; 9786610958757; 9048505070; 0585495351
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Geertje Boschma.

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.