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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.
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Black social comedy at its most bitingly perceptive.The dark, wicked. hilarious story of three very different people whose lives become linked by the sudden, egocentric, power-hungry widow, discovers that her late husband's fortune us bequeathed to a crass, vulgar Texan mistress. Felicity herself is the creator of Craven's Hotel - an exclusive boutique style haunt of the rich and famous - but the hotel actually belongs to her brother Sebastian, an idle playboy whom she despises. When he is exposed in a rent-boy scandal, she sets out to destroy him.Meanwhile Claire, the dead tycoon's secretary, deiscovers she is pregnant with his child after a moment of inebraited folly - but she is also diagnosed with leukaemia. These are only three of a marvellous cast of memorable characters in a wickedly enthralling social comedy where fortaune doesn't necessarily smile on the most grasping and devious.
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The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has known... of Tom, the mason who becomes his architect - a man divided in his soul... of the beautiful, elusive Lady Aliena, haunted by a secret shame... and of a struggle between good and evil that will turn church against state, and brother against brother. A spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy, and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England, this is Ken Follett's historical masterpiece.