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    Fruits without labour: the implications of Friedrich Nietzsche’s ideas for the caring professions (1998)
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Science Ltd
    Journal of advanced nursing 28 (1998), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1365-2648
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Seldom is the work of philosophers invoked by health professionals when examining aspects of care from a philosophical perspective. Instead, students of health care, especially nurses, have been introduced to ‘philosophies’ which are often superficially examined and poorly understood. This practice fails to develop in students an appreciation of the work of philosophers or to acquire the art of critical thinking. The introduction of models and theories of nursing in the past three decades has alerted nurses to the importance of possessing critical skills in order to identify sound theory and implement good practice. This paper goes beyond mere philosophising and examines aspects of mental health care from the perspectives of one of nineteenth century Europe’s most notable philosophers, Friedrich Nietzsche. It argues that understanding his work can enhance one’s ability to reflect on nursing practice, as well as bringing a new dimension to how we analyse ‘mental health’ problems. His work provides many insights into how we can improve our understanding of the effect of mental illness and mental health care on the individual, and how we conceptualise the process of care. This paper provides an overview of his life’s work, his impact on the history of ideas and develops some of the more provocative implications of his work for mental health care.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2648.1998.00637.x
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    Ministering to madness: the narratives of people who have left religious orders to work in the caring professions (1998)
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Science Ltd, UK
    Journal of advanced nursing 28 (1998), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1365-2648
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: This paper examines the life stories of 14 men and women who spent time in religious communities and who subsequently took up work in the caring professions. Their accounts reflect the alignment between the ethics of care and those of religious life, the centrality of contemplation and self-examination to both Christianity and psychotherapy. There are further correspondences between their narratives and recent academic interest in the spiritual aspects of health care. They also describe profound changes and moments of uncertainty which parallel other transitional experiences like grieving or unemployment. For many respondents also, caring for others is part of caring for oneself. Disappointment with the religious life and isolation on leaving it appear to have brought the respondents into a close relationship with those who suffer mental illness. It is almost as if they seek to heal the distress in their own lives by proxy.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2648.1998.00686.x
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    Care under threat in the modern world (2000)
    Oxford UK : Blackwell Science Ltd
    Journal of advanced nursing 32 (2000), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1365-2648
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Care under threat in the modern world Despite enormous progress in the understanding and treatment of disease during the 20th century, the amount of care individuals receive from health professionals is arguably less than in previous decades. Being in the presence of caring people who practised human caring has always been the bedrock of services to individuals who were ill. With the rise of scientific positivism in the mid-19th century, traditional ways of caring for sick people, not susceptible to scientific investigation and intervention, were either abandoned or discouraged. The spread of outcome-orientated health services has led to care being redefined as the provision of the finest form of treatment that is financially viable. The spectre of a service in which the human dimension of caring is either prescribed or seen as invalid gives cause for concern. This paper argues for urgent re-examination of what we understand by ‘care’.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2648.2000.01575.x
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    A history of the training of asylum nurses (1993)
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Journal of advanced nursing 18 (1993), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1365-2648
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: The national training scheme for asylum attendants, devised in the late 19th century, did not arise ex nihilo Several philanthropic and imaginative madhouse keepers of the previous century had understood the link between successful treatment of lunatics and the quality of staff who cared for them They had therefore aimed to recruit a ‘good class’ of person to work in their institutions, and to create an environment which would tend towards the civilization of the patients A few even entertained the notion that training attendants would enhance their ability to understand and care for those in their charge Training received increasing attention in both medical and political circles throughout the 19th century until a national scheme was inaugurated in 1891 The scheme achieved only a modest success in that, while it drew upon the undoubted enthusiasm of those who trained under it, it did not enhance the attendants’ career opportunities or their pay once they had qualified Training as a means of solving management problems was doomed to failure, and widespread dissatisfaction amongst asylum nurses erupted during the 1920s, only 30 years after the scheme had started
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2648.1993.18081193.x
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