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Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions

Auteur: Summers, Martin (Associate Professor of History and African and African Diaspora studies, Associate Professor of History and African and African Diaspora studies, Boston College)
Editeur: Oxford University Press Inc
Summers documents the history of Saint Elizabeths Hospital, a federal mental institution in Washington, DC, in relation to that city's African American community. He sheds light on the intersections of the historical process of racialization, medical and cultural understandings of insanity, the exercise of institutional power, and individual and collective agency.
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Summers documents the history of Saint Elizabeths Hospital, a federal mental institution in Washington, DC, in relation to that city's African American community. He sheds light on the intersections of the historical process of racialization, medical and cultural understandings of insanity, the exercise of institutional power, and individual and collective agency.
ISBN / EAN 9780190852641
Auteur Summers, Martin (Associate Professor of History and African and African Diaspora studies, Associate Professor of History and African and African Diaspora studies, Boston College)
Editeur Oxford University Press Inc