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

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...

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Main Author: Boschma, Geertje (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Amsterdam University Press 2003
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