How Long to Read Asylum Doctor

How Long Does it Take to Read Asylum Doctor?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 12 minutes to read Asylum Doctor by Heyward Gibbes Distinguished Professor of Internal Medicine and Chair of the Department of Medicine Charles S Bryan

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

Description

During the early twentieth century thousands of Americans died of pellagra before the cause vitamin B3 deficiency was identified. Credit for ending the scourge is usually given to Dr. Joseph Goldberger of the U.S. Public Health Service, who proved the case for dietary deficiency during 1914-1915 and spent the rest of his life combating those who refused to accept southern poverty as the root cause. Charles S. Bryan demonstrates that between 1907 and 1914 a patchwork coalition of American asylum superintendents, local health officials, and practicing physicians developed a competence in pellagra, sifted through hypotheses, and set the stage for Goldberger s epic campaign. Leading the American response to pellagra was Dr. James Woods Babcock (1856 1922), superintendent of the South Carolina State Hospital for the Insane from 1891 to 1914. It was largely Babcock who sounded the alarm, brought out the first English-language treatise on pellagra, and organized the National Association for the Study of Pellagra, the three meetings of which all at the woefully underfunded Columbia asylum were landmarks in the history of the disease. More than anyone else, Babcock encouraged pellagra researchers on both sides of the Atlantic. Bryan proposes that the early response to pellagra constitutes an underappreciated chapter in the coming-of-age of American medical science. The book also includes a history of mental health administration in South Carolina during the early twentieth century and reveals the complicated, troubled governance of the asylum. Bryan concludes that the traditional bane of good administration in South Carolina and excessive General Assembly oversight, coupled with Governor Cole Blease s political intimidation and unblushing racism, damaged the asylum and drove Babcock from his post as superintendent. Remarkably many of the issues of inadequate funding, political cronyism, and meddling in the state s health care facilities reemerged in modern times. Asylum Doctor describes the plight of the mentally ill during an era when public asylums had devolved into convenient places to warehouse inconvenient people. It is the story of an idealistic humanitarian who faced conditions most people would find intolerable. And it is important social history for, as this book s epigraph puts it, in many ways the Old South died with the passing of pellagra. "

How long is Asylum Doctor?

Asylum Doctor by Heyward Gibbes Distinguished Professor of Internal Medicine and Chair of the Department of Medicine Charles S Bryan is 431 pages long, and a total of 108,181 words.

This makes it 145% the length of the average book. It also has 132% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Asylum Doctor Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 51 minutes to read Asylum Doctor aloud.

What Reading Level is Asylum Doctor?

Asylum Doctor 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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