Sylvelyn Hähner-Rombach and Karen Nolte (eds), Patients and Social Practice of Psychiatric Nursing in the 19th and 20th Century
Abstract
The history of psychiatric nursing is currently thriving and benefiting from increasingly sophisticated debates within the history of nursing as well as the gradual re-orientation of research exploring the history of psychiatry, the rise and decline of the asylum and patient experiences of institutional and community care. Although the editors of this book start with the modest ambition of providing ‘an insight into current research projects in the history of psychiatric nursing in various national contexts’ (p.10), the very interesting collection of essays that they have brought together makes a significant contribution to the historiography. In particular the book, which originated in a 2015 conference, introduces an audience limited to English language texts to the vibrant debates about policy and practice, past and present, conducted in other places over the last 20 years. This is not just a matter of providing translations but using carefully selected case studies to reveal distinctive features of different care regimes that challenge some of the priorities and conclusions of scholars working in a largely Anglophone world. At the end of the introduction the editors set out their aspiration ‘to sketch the state of international research, but also to point out gaps in research’ (p.12). In my opinion the book does this and achieves a great deal more. Most importantly the essays are not afraid to confront professional dilemmas and even deeper ethical questions about the…
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