It takes the average reader 2 hours and 34 minutes to read Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America by Leslie A. Schwalm
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This social and cultural history of Civil War medicine and science sheds important light on the question of why and how anti-Black racism survived the destruction of slavery. During the war, white Northerners promoted ideas about Black inferiority under the guise of medical and scientific authority. In particular, the Sanitary Commission and Army medical personnel conducted wartime research aimed at proving Black medical and biological inferiority. They not only subjected Black soldiers and refugees from slavery to substandard health care but also scrutinized them as objects of study. This...
Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America by Leslie A. Schwalm is 149 pages long, and a total of 38,591 words.
This makes it 50% the length of the average book. It also has 47% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 30 minutes to read Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America aloud.
Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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