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eBook: Place for Lost Souls: A nurse's stories of hope and despair from a 1980s psychiatric hospital (DRM EPUB)
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DRM EPUB |
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Belinda Black
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Memoirs
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Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000
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Social & cultural history
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Care of the mentally ill
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Diseases & disorders
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Psychiatry
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Psychiatric nursing
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c 1970 to c 1980
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United Kingdom, Great Britain
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| 書城編號: |
27053570 |
售價:
$221.00
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商品簡介 |
| 'Ultimately, my experiences as a mental health nurse have taught me that we should judge less and open our hearts more.'Belinda Black was just seventeen years old when she began working as a nursing assistant at the large and foreboding 'madhouse', as it was then known in hometown in the north of England. Following in the footsteps of her mother, she spent a decade caring for patients with widely varying mental health problems, all locked up together and out of view of society. Some had suffered unimaginable trauma, several had violent and volatile tendencies, but amongst this Belinda found moments of joy and even friendship with her patients.Together, against a backdrop of rattling keys, clanging iron doors, and wards that smelled of disinfectant and stale smoke, these people came together to get through another day. Until the hospital, along with many others, had its doors closed in 1991 - the biggest change to mental healthcare in NHS history.The result is a moving, shocking but ultimately life-affirming account of a unique and noble profession, told from the frontlines. |
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