How Long to Read Mental Ills and Bodily Cures

How Long Does it Take to Read Mental Ills and Bodily Cures?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 10 minutes to read Mental Ills and Bodily Cures by Joel Braslow

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

Description

Mental Ills and Bodily Cures depicts a time when psychiatric medicine went to lengths we now find extreme and perhaps even brutal ways to heal the mind by treating the body. From a treasure trove of California psychiatric hospital records, including many verbatim transcripts of patient interviews, Joel Braslow masterfully reconstructs the world of mental patients and their doctors in the first half of the twentieth century. Hydrotherapy, sterilization, electroshock, lobotomy, and clitoridectomy—these were among the drastic somatic treatments used in these hospitals. By allowing the would-be healers and those in psychological and physical distress to speak for themselves, Braslow captures the intense and emotional interplay surrounding these therapies. His investigation combines revealing clinical detail with the immediacy of "being there" in the institutional setting while decisions are made, procedures undertaken, and results observed by all those involved. We learn how well-intentioned physicians could rationalize and regard as therapeutic treatments that often had dreadful consequences, and how much the social and cultural world is inscribed within the practice of biological psychiatry. The book will interest historians of medicine, practicing psychiatrists, and everyone who knows or has seen what it's like to be in mental distress.

How long is Mental Ills and Bodily Cures?

Mental Ills and Bodily Cures by Joel Braslow is 430 pages long, and a total of 107,500 words.

This makes it 145% the length of the average book. It also has 131% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Mental Ills and Bodily Cures Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 47 minutes to read Mental Ills and Bodily Cures aloud.

What Reading Level is Mental Ills and Bodily Cures?

Mental Ills and Bodily Cures 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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