A Matter of Minds: My Life as a Mental Nurse, 1934-80

by Mary Fairbairn Macintyre

As a student nurse in one of the great mental hospitals in the UK, Mary Fairbairn was trained to provide meticulous and compassionate nursing care. This training, necessarily tough to weed out those who might harm the patients, served her well as she later worked on the observation ward of a general hospital in Guildford during The Blitz, at a home for Downs Syndrome men, and as a private nurse to wealthy and eccentric aristocrats in the south of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0996093494
• ISBN13: 9780996093491
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Seafield House
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"