Mental health nursing

The working lives of paid carers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Anne Borsay, Pamela Dale, Pamela Dale, Anne Borsay, Pamela Dale

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9780719096938
• eBook ISBN:
  9781784992163
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: English Literary Criticism

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 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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of contributors
• Foreword: the struggle is never over Mick Carpenter
• Acknowledgements
• List of abbreviations
• 1 Mental health nursing: the working lives of paid carers from 1800 to the 1990s Anne Borsay and Pamela Dale
• 2 Psychiatric nurses and their patients in the nineteenth century: the Irish perspective Oonagh Walsh
• 3 A duty to learn: attendant training in Victoria, Australia, 1880–1907 Lee-Ann Monk
• 4 ‘Who are these?’ Nursing shell-shocked patients in Cardiff during the First World War Anne Borsay and Sara Knight
• 5 Discourses of dispute: narratives of asylum nurses and attendants, 1910–22 Barbara Douglas
• 6 ‘Surely a nice occupation for a girl?’ Stories of nursing, gender, violence and mental illness in British asylums, 1914–30 Vicky Long
• 7 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
• 8 ‘The weakest link in the chain of nursing’? Recruitment and retention in mental health nursing in England, 1948–68 Claire Chatterton
• 9 Wardens, letter writing and the welfare state, 1944–74 John Welshman
• 10 Learning disability nursing: surviving change, c.1970–90 Duncan Mitchell
• 11 Between asylum and community: DGH psychiatric nurses at Withington General Hospital, 1971–91 Val Harrington
• Index