How Long to Read Doctoring Freedom

How Long Does it Take to Read Doctoring Freedom?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 15 minutes to read Doctoring Freedom by Gretchen Long

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

Description

For enslaved and newly freed African Americans, attaining freedom and citizenship without health for themselves and their families would have been an empty victory. Even before emancipation, African Americans recognized that control of their bodies was a critical battleground in their struggle for autonomy, and they devised strategies to retain at least some of that control. In Doctoring Freedom, Gretchen Long tells the stories of African Americans who fought for access to both medical care and medical education, showing the important relationship between medical practice and political identity. Working closely with antebellum medical journals, planters' diaries, agricultural publications, letters from wounded African American soldiers, WPA narratives, and military and Freedmen's Bureau reports, Long traces African Americans' political acts to secure medical care: their organizing mutual-aid societies, their petitions to the federal government, and, as a last resort, their founding of their own medical schools, hospitals, and professional organizations. She also illuminates work of the earliest generation of black physicians, whose adult lives spanned both slavery and freedom. For African Americans, Long argues, claiming rights as both patients and practitioners was a political and highly charged act in both slavery and emancipation.

How long is Doctoring Freedom?

Doctoring Freedom by Gretchen Long is 248 pages long, and a total of 63,984 words.

This makes it 84% the length of the average book. It also has 78% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Doctoring Freedom Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 49 minutes to read Doctoring Freedom aloud.

What Reading Level is Doctoring Freedom?

Doctoring Freedom 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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