Geertje Boschma

The rise of mental health nursing : a history of psychiatric care in Dutch asylums, 1890-1920

The Rise of Mental Health Nursing onderzoekt de tegenstrijdigheden in de op het ziekenhuis georienteerde inrichtingszorg, die rond 1900 opkwam. Bovendien illustreert het boek de sociale complexiteit van de psychiatrische zorg. Op basis van archiefmateriaal uit vier Nederlandse psychiatrische inrichtingen onderzocht Geertje Boschma de sociale verbanden die de psychiatrische verpleging rond 1900 kenmerkten. De introductie van nieuwe somatische behandelingsmethoden door psychiaters creeerde destijds een vraag naar verplegend personeel dat geschoold was in somatische zorg. Het opleidingsmodel, dat (overwegend mannelijke) psychiaters ontwikkelden, was gebaseerd op het beeld van de beschaafde vrouwelijke verpleegster uit de middenklasse die competentie en compassie in de zorg verenigden. De nieuwe kansen die hiermee gecreeerd werden voor vrouwen legden tegelijkertijd een beperking op aan de rol van mannen binnen de verpleging.

Community mental health nursing in Alberta, Canada: an oral history.

Community mental health nurses had a central role in the construction of new rehabilitative practices and community mental health services in the 1960s and 1970s. The purpose of this article is, first, to explore how nurses understood and created their new role and identity in the turbulent context of deinstitutionalization. The development of after care services for patients discharged from Alberta Hospital in Ponoka (AH-Ponoka), a large mental institution in Calgary, in the Canadian province of Alberta, will be used as a case study. I specifically focus on the establishment of outpatient services in a new psychiatric department at Foothills General Hospital in Calgary. Second, I examine how deinstitutionalization itself shaped community mental health nurses’ work. Oral history interviews with nurses and other mental health professionals, who had a central role in this transformation process, provide a unique lens through which to explore this social change. The article concludes that new rehabilitative, community-based mental health services can better be understood as a transformation of former institutional practices rather than as a definite break with them.

Nurses of all nations : a history of the International Council of Nurses, 1899-1999

Published to celebrate the International Council of Nurses Centennial and Conference in July of 1999, this thought-provoking book highlights the ICNs traditions, history, growth, and contributions to the nursing community worldwide. Written by renowned nurse-historians from the United States, England and Canada, - all active members of the ICN - this timeless book offers a range of historical perspectives from nurse-scholars whose writings are familiar to academicians and nursing leaders worldwide. Focusing on the history of the ICN within the events that shape human history, it includes over 80 quality photographs highlight the text. Ideal as a historical chronicle or as a valuable keepsake, Nurses of All Nations is the perfect gift to give yourself, a friend, or colleague

Writing international nursing history: what does it mean?

Attending a most inspiring international nursing history conference in Stuttgart, Germany, in September 2006 gave me much food for thought about the meaning of international nursing history. Why raise that question, you may wonder. Are we not already writing international history? Over the last decade, much nursing history scholarship of international importance has appeared, seeking to explore issues of gender, class, race, religion, nation, and ethnicity in diverse international and (post)colonial contexts.1 The Nursing History Review regularly publishes contributions from scholars from many different countries exploring one or more of these categories. To some extent, then, yes, we do have an international nursing history. But who constitutes the we is an important question that does need more explicit consideration. About a decade ago, I was involved in an international nursing history project: writing the history of the International Council of Nurses (ICN), published on the occasion of the ICNs centennial celebration in 1999.2 We called our book Nurses of All Nations, but as a group of international nursing history scholars we were painfully aware that, as authors, we represented very particular subject locations. For one, we were all English speaking, albeit not necessarily speaking English as our first language. We also wrote in English. Likewise, the organization we studied had emerged as an initiative centered in western Europe and North America, reflecting the dominant cultural power relations at the time. In seeking to establish an international perspective, we did not write a history of all individual national nursing organizations, but we explored professional identity and diversity in the context of larger social changes in nursing and health care. While we sought to go beyond national borders and cultural boundaries, we could do so only to a certain extent. What we call international comes with its limitations. No matter what perspective we offer, it is always situated. International nursing history involves complex issues of translation, language being one of them. Making myself and my historical analyses understandable and accessible in an international context may imply writing in a language that is not my own-and inherently, a culture that is not my own. Learning to write in another language opens up opportunities to learn in and about other ways of existing, but it also implies giving up some of my own history. Having to articulate my ideas in another language means that some things get lost. Some culturally embedded words or experiences are very hard to get across, just because they dont exist in the same way in the other language (and culture). The experience of expressing myself in another language is only the tip of an iceberg, floating on a much larger, stronger undercurrent of being different. As an example, the ICN, in order to be meaningful to nurses around the world, has adopted three formal languages, English, French, and Spanish, but not Mandarin, Arabic, Swahili, or German-let alone Dutch, or Frisian, my mother tongue. The choice of these three languages over others represents a particular colonial past. The choice comes with a cost: we remain understandable only in a particular way. How much of the individual experience, the individual identity of one nurse, practicing in one particular local context, can we put in perspective in international nursing history? …

Care and Caregiving Reconsidered

Imagining Care: Responsibility, Dependency, and Canadian Literature by Amelia DeFalco (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016) (232 pages;

International nursing history: the International Council of Nurses history collective and beyond.

55.00 cloth,

Healing Histories: Stories from Canada's Indian Hospitals

52.25 e-book). Troubling Care: Critical Perspectives on Research and Practices edited by Pat Armstrong and Susan Braedley (Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2013) (256 pages;

ICN During Wartime: 1912–1947

38.45 paper). Who Cared for the Carers? A History of the Occupational Health of Nurses, 1880–1948 by Debbie Palmer (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014) (200 pages;

In Search of Nursing's History

105.00 cloth,

Das Tagebuch der Jüdischen Kriegskrankenschwester Rosa Bendit, 1914 Bis 1917 [the Diary of a Jewish War Nurse Rosa Bendit, 1914 until 1917]

99.75 e-book).