Martin Summers

Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions

A History of Race and Mental Illness in the Nation's Capital

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780190852641
• ISBN-10: 019085264X
• Artikelnr.: 57120896

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Chapter 1: "Humanity Requires All the Relief Which Can Be Afforded":
The Birth of the Federal Asylum
* Chapter 2: The Paradox of Enlightened Care: Saint Elizabeths in the
Era of Moral Treatment, 1855-1877
* Chapter 3: "From Slave to Citizen": Race, Insanity, and
Institutionalization in Post-Reconstruction Washington, DC, 1877-1900
* Chapter 4: Care and the Color Line: Race, Rights, and the Therapeutic
Experience, 1877-1900
* Chapter 5: "Mechanisms of the Negro Mind": Race and Dynamic
Psychiatry at Saint Elizabeths, 1903-1937
* Chapter 6: "He Is Psychotic and Always Will Be": Racial Ambivalence
and the Limits of Therapeutic Optimism, 1903-1937
* Chapter 7: Mental Hygiene and the Limits of Reform: Saint Elizabeths
in the Community, 1903-1937
* Chapter 8: "An Example for the Rest of the Nation": Challenging
Racial Injustice at Saint Elizabeths, 1910-1955
* Chapter 9: Whither the Negro Psyche: Integration and Its Aftermath,
1945-1970
* Chapter 10: From Model to Emblem: Community Mental Health and
Deinstitutionalization, 1963-1987
* Conclusion
* Bibliography
* Index