It takes the average reader 6 hours and 4 minutes to read Critical Perspectives on Aging by Meredith Minkler
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This unique volume brings together 20 critical essays on aging within the context of the broad social, political, and economic factors that help shape and determine the realities of growing old. Rather than viewing aging in isolation, it explores the social creation of old age dependency and the profound influence of race, gender, and social class on what it means to grow old. It looks too at such topics as the "biomedicalization" of aging; the role of business and the media in changing societal images of the old; the fact and fiction behind "senior power"; the multibillion dollar nursing...
Critical Perspectives on Aging by Meredith Minkler is 362 pages long, and a total of 91,224 words.
This makes it 122% the length of the average book. It also has 111% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 18 minutes to read Critical Perspectives on Aging aloud.
Critical Perspectives on Aging is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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