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1 online resource (324 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-312) and index. |
Contents |
Introduction -- Care of the mentally ill -- Asylum attendants and mental nurses -- The historiography of mental health nursing -- Four asylums as case studies -- The chapters in brief -- Chapter I. Asylum reform ideals: personnel matters. The appeal of institutional care and moral treatment -- A legal basis for asylum reform -- Increased medical influence -- Liberal views, reform rhetoric, and the problem of personnel -- Lower-class institutions -- The position of attendants and patients in the asylum hierarchy -- Different responses and different solutions: Roman Catholic initiatives -- Reform ideals frustrated: asylum growth and a new law -- A second law on the insane -- Awakening of Protestant duty -- Chapter II. The ideal of a mental hospital. New medical opinions: scientific psychiatry -- Medical views in Veldwijk: a Christian psychiatry. |
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Bed rest -- Architectural changes and the increased application of bed rest -- Hydrotherapy and bath treatment -- Work remained -- The inspiring example of the general hospital: a new demand for skilled nursing -- Chapter III. Female compassion: mental nurse training gendered female. Religious roots -- Female compassion, domestic ideology and the women's movement -- Growing demand -- A new educational structure for nurses -- A respectable salaried occupation -- Female influence -- Hospital hierarchy -- Raising the status of psychiatry: the introduction of mental nurse training -- Gendered ideals: raising the morality of asylum personnel -- Het Wilhelminahuis (The Wilhelmina Home) -- Chapter IV. The burdensome task of nurses. The invisible role of nurses -- The nurse as object and agent of a disciplined asylum routine -- Threat, repression, and abuse: the division of wards as a control mechanism -- An analysis of patient records. |
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Responding to dependency -- Growing old and demented -- Sick since youth -- Suffering from mania, acutely or periodically -- The care of paralyzed and handicapped syphilis patients -- They wished to be dead: the risk of suicide -- Overcome by delusions: the risk of refusing food, self-mutilation, violence and escape -- Nervous afflictions and brain trauma: rare cases in the turn-of-the-century asylum -- Chapter V. Negotiating class and culture. A gendered structure -- A new discipline and morale -- Culture shock -- The Orthodox Protestant Perception of mental nurse training: a family ideology -- Gendered nursing leadership in Veldwijk -- Implementing an educational structure -- Mental nurse training at Veldwijk -- Debate over the Boschhoek -- The Boschhoek revisited -- Roman Catholic "Resistance" -- Chapter VI. The marginalization of male nurses. Nursing, a respected occupation -- but not for men -- Squeezed out -- Nurse artisans. |
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The home of a married nurse: a place of family care? -- Growing class consciousness -- Male nurse activism and the career of P.N. Bras -- Gendered politics versus expertise -- Chapter VII. Controversy and conflict over the social position. An ambiguous social position -- Growing social awareness among asylum nursing personnel -- Activism among the VCV nurses -- Seeking legal protection from the state -- Controversy over training -- Ambivalence over morality and class background -- The threat of private duty -- Tension over the NVP exam criteria -- Controversy over the somatic approach and biomedical footing of psychiatric care -- Conclusion: the politics of mental health nursing -- The disappointment of somatic explanations in turn-of-the-century psychiatry -- A gendered notion of civilized care -- The Educational versus the social value of mental nurse training -- Economic problems, growing costs -- Ideals and limitations. |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (OAPEN, viewed July 18, 2016). |
Summary |
A unique analysis of psychiatric care and the emerging field of mental health nursing in the Netherlands at the turn of the 19th century. |
Language |
English. |
Subject |
Psychiatric nursing -- Netherlands -- History -- 19th century.
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Psychiatric nursing -- Netherlands -- History -- 20th century.
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Psychiatric Nursing -- history |
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Hospitals, Psychiatric -- history |
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Netherlands |
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History.
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Humanities.
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Medicine.
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Psychology.
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Society and culture: general.
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Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
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Sociology and anthropology.
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MEDICAL -- Nursing -- Mental Health.
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MEDICAL -- Nursing -- Psychiatric.
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HISTORY -- General.
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Psychiatric nursing
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Netherlands https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJk4D96j3YTHJQfHCV3vpP
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Verpleging.
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Psychiatrische inrichtingen.
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Chronological Term |
1800-1999
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Indexed Term |
Multi-User. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History
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Added Title |
History of psychiatric care in Dutch asylums, 1890-1920 |
In: |
Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR |
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OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) OAPEN |
Other Form: |
Print version: Boschma, Geertje. Rise of mental health nursing. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2003 9053565019 (DLC) 2003354479 (OCoLC)51991454 |
ISBN |
9780585495354 (electronic bk.) |
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0585495351 (electronic bk.) |
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9789048505074 (electronic bk.) |
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9048505070 (electronic bk.) |
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9786610958757 |
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6610958750 |
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9789053565018 (paperback) |
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9053565019 (paperback) |
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9781280958755 |
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1280958758 |
Standard No. |
AU@ 000051342311 |
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AU@ 000051670317 |
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AU@ 000053240629 |
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DEBBG BV043119473 |
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DEBBG BV044133568 |
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DEBSZ 422394556 |
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GBVCP 1003568912 |
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NLGGC 380783215 |
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NZ1 11773339 |
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NZ1 11927436 |
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NZ1 14936131 |