How Long to Read American Lobotomy

How Long Does it Take to Read American Lobotomy?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 40 minutes to read American Lobotomy by Jenell Johnson

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

American Lobotomy studies a wide variety of representations of lobotomy to offer a rhetorical history of one of the most infamous procedures in the history of medicine. The development of lobotomy in 1935 was heralded as a “miracle cure” that would empty the nation’s perennially blighted asylums. However, only twenty years later, lobotomists initially praised for their “therapeutic courage” were condemned for their barbarity, an image that has only soured in subsequent decades. Johnson employs previously abandoned texts like science fiction, horror film, political polemics, and conspiracy theory to show how lobotomy’s entanglement with social and political narratives contributed to a powerful image of the operation that persists to this day. The book provocatively challenges the history of medicine, arguing that rhetorical history is crucial to understanding medical history. It offers a case study of how medicine accumulates meaning as it circulates in public culture and argues for the need to understand biomedicine as a culturally situated practice.

How long is American Lobotomy?

American Lobotomy by Jenell Johnson is 220 pages long, and a total of 55,000 words.

This makes it 74% the length of the average book. It also has 67% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read American Lobotomy Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours to read American Lobotomy aloud.

What Reading Level is American Lobotomy?

American Lobotomy is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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