It takes the average reader 9 hours and 20 minutes to read An Anthropology of Biomedicine by Margaret Lock
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In this fully revised and updated second edition of An Anthropology of Biomedicine, authors Lock and Nguyen introduce biomedicine from an anthropological perspective, exploring the entanglement of material bodies with history, environment, culture, and politics. Drawing on historical and ethnographic work, the book critiques the assumption made by the biological sciences of a universal human body that can be uniformly standardized. It focuses on the ways in which the application of biomedical technologies brings about radical changes to societies at large based on socioeconomic inequalities...
An Anthropology of Biomedicine by Margaret Lock is 560 pages long, and a total of 140,000 words.
This makes it 189% the length of the average book. It also has 171% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 12 hours and 45 minutes to read An Anthropology of Biomedicine aloud.
An Anthropology of Biomedicine is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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