Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions

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Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions is written by Martin Anthony Summers and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0190060131 (ISBN 10) and 9780190060138 (ISBN 13).

In this work, 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.