The Rise of Mental Health Nursing: A History of Psychiatric Care in Dutch Asylums, 1890-1920

by 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9053565019
• ISBN13: 9789053565018
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.5"