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Title Mental health nursing : the working lives of paid carers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / edited by Anne Borsay, Pamela Dale
Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource
Series Nursing history and humanities
Nursing history and humanities.
Contents Foreword. The struggle is never over / Mick Carpenter -- Mental health nursing : the working lives of paid carers from 1800 to the 1990s / Anne Borsay and Pamela Dale -- Psychiatric nurses and their patients in the nineteenth century : the Irish perspective / Oonagh Walsh -- A duty to learn : attendant training in Victoria, Australia, 1880-1907 / Lee-Ann Monk -- 'Who are these?' : nursing shell-shocked patients in Cardiff during the First World War / Anne Borsay and Sara Knight -- Discourse of dispute : narratives of asylum nurses and attendants, 1910-22 / Barbara Douglas -- 'Surely a nice occupation for a girl?' : stories of nursing, gender, violence and mental illness in British asylums, 1914-30 / Vicky Long -- Reassessing staffing requirements and creating new roles for nurses during a period of rapid change at the Royal Western Counties Institution, 1927-48 / Pamela Dale -- 'The weakest link in the chain of nursing?' : recruitment and retention in mental health nursing in England, 1948-68 / Claire Chatterton -- Wardens, letter writing and the welfare state, 1944-74 / John Welshman -- Learning disability nursing : surviving change, c. 1970-90 / Duncan Mitchell -- Between asylum and community : DGH psychiatric nurses at Withington General Hospital, 1971-91 / Val Harrington
Summary This book seeks to integrate the history of mental health nursing with the wider history of institutional and community care. It develops new research questions by drawing together a concern with exploring the class, gender, skills and working conditions of practitioners with an assessment of the care regimes staff helped create and patients' experiences of them. Contributors from a range of disciplines use a variety of source material to examine both continuity and change in the history of care over two centuries. The book benefits from a foreword by Mick Carpenter and will appeal to research
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
SUBJECT Klinik und Hochschulambulanz für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie gnd
Subject Psychiatric nursing -- History -- 19th century
Psychiatric Nursing -- history
MEDICAL -- History.
Psychiatric nursing
Psychiatrische Krankenpflege
Krankenschwester
SUBJECT United Kingdom https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Borsay, Anne, editor.
Dale, Pamela, 1975- editor.
ISBN 9781784992156
1784992151
9781784992163
178499216X