Download or read book Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions written by Martin Anthony Summers and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.