Mental health nursing: The working lives of paid carers, 1800s-1900s
Anne Borsay and Pamela Dale
Abstract
This book seeks to integrate the history of mental health nursing with the wider history of institutional and community care for people experiencing mental illness and/or living with a learning disability. 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. ... More
This book seeks to integrate the history of mental health nursing with the wider history of institutional and community care for people experiencing mental illness and/or living with a learning disability. 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 researchers and students interested in all aspects of the history of nursing and the history of care. The book is also designed to be accessible to practitioners and the general reader.
Keywords:
Class,
Community care,
Experiences,
Gender,
Institutions,
Learning disabilities,
Mental health,
Mental illness,
Nurses
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780719096938 |
| Published to Manchester Scholarship Online: January 2016 |
DOI:10.7228/manchester/9780719096938.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Anne Borsay, editor
Swansea University
Pamela Dale, editor
University of Exeter
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