It takes the average reader 6 hours and 22 minutes to read Inventing the Feeble Mind by James W. Trent (Jr.)
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Pity, disgust, fear, cure, and prevention--all are words that Americans have used to make sense of what today we call intellectual disability. Inventing the Feeble Mind explores the history of this disability from its several identifications over the past 200 years: idiocy, imbecility, feeblemindedness, mental defect, mental deficiency, mental retardation, and most recently intellectual disability. Using institutional records, private correspondence, personal memories, and rare photographs, James Trent argues that the economic vulnerability of intellectually disabled people (and often their...
Inventing the Feeble Mind by James W. Trent (Jr.) is 369 pages long, and a total of 95,571 words.
This makes it 125% the length of the average book. It also has 117% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 42 minutes to read Inventing the Feeble Mind aloud.
Inventing the Feeble Mind is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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