It takes the average reader 4 hours and 1 minute to read Medicine and Religion by Gary B. Ferngren
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Medicine and Religion is the first book to comprehensively examine the relationship between medicine and religion in the Western tradition from ancient times to the modern era. Beginning with the earliest attempts to heal the body and account for the meaning of illness in the ancient Near East, historian Gary B. Ferngren describes how the polytheistic religions of ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome and the monotheistic faiths of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have complemented medicine in the ancient, medieval, and modern periods. Ferngren paints a broad and detailed portrait of...
Medicine and Religion by Gary B. Ferngren is 241 pages long, and a total of 60,491 words.
This makes it 81% the length of the average book. It also has 74% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 30 minutes to read Medicine and Religion aloud.
Medicine and Religion is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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