How Long to Read Imperial Medicine and Indigenous Societies

How Long Does it Take to Read Imperial Medicine and Indigenous Societies?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 15 minutes to read Imperial Medicine and Indigenous Societies by David Arnold

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

Description

In recent years it has become apparent that the interaction of imperialism with disease, medical research, and the administration of health policies is considerably more complex. This book reflects the breadth and interdisciplinary range of current scholarship applied to a variety of imperial experiences in different continents. Common themes and widely applicable modes of analysis emerge include the confrontation between indigenous and western medical systems, the role of medicine in war and resistance, and the nature of approaches to mental health. The book identifies disease and medicine as a site of contact, conflict and possible eventual convergence between western rulers and indigenous peoples, and illustrates the contradictions and rivalries within the imperial order. The causes and consequences of this rapid transition from white man's medicine to public health during the latter decades of the nineteenth and early years of the twentieth centuries are touched upon. By the late 1850s, each of the presidency towns of Calcutta, Bombay and Madras could boast its own 'asylum for the European insane'; about twenty 'native lunatic asylums' had been established in provincial towns. To many nineteenth-century British medical officers smallpox was 'the scourge of India'. Following the British discovery in 1901 of a major sleeping sickness epidemic in Uganda, King Leopold of Belgium invited the recently established Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine to examine his Congo Free State. Cholera claimed its victims from all levels of society, including Americans, prominent Filipinos, Chinese, and Spaniards.

How long is Imperial Medicine and Indigenous Societies?

Imperial Medicine and Indigenous Societies by David Arnold 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 Imperial Medicine and Indigenous Societies Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 49 minutes to read Imperial Medicine and Indigenous Societies aloud.

What Reading Level is Imperial Medicine and Indigenous Societies?

Imperial Medicine and Indigenous Societies 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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