Vocation as tragedy: Love and knowledge in the lives of the Mills, the Webers, and the Russells.

Can love affect knowledge and knowledge affect love? John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor-Mill, Max and Marianne Weber, and Bertrand and Dora Russell had a definite vocation: they wanted to change the world. They questioned traditional gender arrangements through publications on equality, marriage, and education. They were liberal thinkers, advocating individual freedom and autonomy, vis à vis the constraints of state and society.

Student nurses' perceptions of mental health care: validation of a questionnaire.

Aim: This article describes the results of a study into the psychometric properties of a questionnaire about student nurses' perceptions of mental health care. The questionnaire was constructed in 2008, but has not yet been tested in terms of construct validity and reliability. A validated questionnaire is essential as a standardized method of analyzing student nurses' perceptions of mental health care.

A nursing career in mental health care: choices and motives of nursing students.

Purpose: This article describes the results of a study into how first-year nursing students' perceptions of psychiatric patients and mental health care influence their choice of specialization in mental health care and future working in this sector.

Method: A descriptive qualitative study design with semi-structured interviews. Respondents were selected through purposive sampling among all first-year bachelor students attending a Dutch school of nursing.