It takes the average reader 4 hours and 40 minutes to read A Family History of Illness by Brett L. Walker
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
While in the ICU with a near-fatal case of pneumonia, Brett Walker was asked, �Do you have a family history of illness?��a standard and deceptively simple question that for Walker, a professional historian, took on additional meaning and spurred him to investigate his family�s medical past. In this deeply personal narrative, he constructs a history of his body to understand his diagnosis with a serious immunological disorder, weaving together his dying grandfather�s sneaking a cigarette in a shed on the family�s Montana farm, blood fractionation experiments in Europe during World War II, and...
A Family History of Illness by Brett L. Walker is 280 pages long, and a total of 70,000 words.
This makes it 94% the length of the average book. It also has 86% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 22 minutes to read A Family History of Illness aloud.
A Family History of Illness is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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