Browsing History by Author "Chaney, S"
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The action of the imagination
Chaney, S (2017-04-01) -
Before compassion: sympathy, tact and the history of the ideal nurse.
Chaney, S (2020-07-30)The word 'compassion' is ubiquitous in modern healthcare. Yet few writers agree on what the term means, and what makes it an essential trait in nursing. In this article, I take a historical approach to the problem of ... -
"A hideous torture on himself": madness and self-mutilation in Victorian literature.
Chaney, S (2011-12)This paper suggests that late nineteenth-century definitions of self-mutilation, a new category of psychiatric symptomatology, were heavily influenced by the use of self-injury as a rhetorical device in the novel, for the ... -
In Search of Sympathy: Stereotypes and Stiff Upper Lips in Inter-war Nursing
Chaney, S (Macfarland, 2021-10-18)In 1939 the British journal, Nursing Mirror, launched a competition to find the “typical” nurse. Over the following weeks, hundreds of nurses submitted a portrait photograph to try and meet the journal’s criteria. “This ... -
Psychiatry’s Material Culture: The Symbolic Power of the Straitjacket
Chaney, S (Routledge, 2022-02-21) -
Self-control, selfishness and mutilation: how 'medical' is self-injury anyway?
Chaney, S (2011-07)