If Asylum Walls Could Speak: A memoir of 50 years of mental health nursing at Glenside.

by Sandy Bayley nee Williams and Sandy Bayley nee Williams

Book Overview

Sandy embarked on her mental health nursing career in Parkside Hospital in 1964 as a naive seventeen-year-old child and stepped into another world--a world of entrenched culture, such as the deep division of the sexes and women incarcerated for infidelity and labelled morally insane, doomed to spend the rest of their lives in the asylum. Pencil baths, gang showers, and group bathing and how a young window cleaner saw more than he expected to and fled...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503506746
• ISBN13: 9781503506749
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Xlibris
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"