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The rise of mental health nursing: a history of psychiatric care in Dutch asylums, 1890-1920
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Abstract Examining the relations between the rise of scientific psychiatry and the emergence of mental health nursing in Dutch asylums, this study analyses the social relationships of class, gender and religion that structured asylum care in the Netherlands around 1900. Drawing on archival collections of fou... view more
Examining the relations between the rise of scientific psychiatry and the emergence of mental health nursing in Dutch asylums, this study analyses the social relationships of class, gender and religion that structured asylum care in the Netherlands around 1900. Drawing on archival collections of four Dutch asylums, the book highlights the gendered nature of mental health nursing politics. Seeking to model the asylum after the forceful example of the general hospital, psychiatrists introduced new somatic treatments and designed mental nurse training which aimed at creating a nursing staff skilled in somatic care. The training system, based on the projected image of the civilized, middle-class female nurse, bringing competence and compassion to the care of the mentally ill, created new opportunities for women, while at the same time restricting the role of men in nursing. Capturing the contradictory realities of hospital-oriented asylum care, the book illustrates the social complexity of the care of the mentally ill and forms an important addition to the historiography on European psychiatry.... view less
Keywords
psychiatry; psychiatric care; Netherlands; historical analysis; gender-specific factors; nursing staff; nursing
Classification
Psychological Disorders, Mental Health Treatment and Prevention
Method
historical
Document language
English
Publication Year
2003
Publisher
Amsterdam Univ. Press
City
Amsterdam
Page/Pages
324 p.
ISBN
978-90-5356-501-8
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications