Summers

Gebundenes Buch

Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Martin Summers is an associate professor of history and African and African diaspora studies at Boston College. His research and teaching interests are in African American history, race and medicine, and gender and sexuality. Summers's research has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the National Humanities Center.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: ACADEMIC
• Seitenzahl: 406
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 772g
• ISBN-13: 9780190852641
• ISBN-10: 019085264X
• Artikelnr.: 57120896