How Long to Read Perilous Encounters

How Long Does it Take to Read Perilous Encounters?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 1 minute to read Perilous Encounters by Stanley M. Aronson

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

Description

Stanley M. Aronson, M.D., the founding dean of Brown University's medical school, has been writing newspaper columns for more than a decade for two Rhode Island publications. His Medical Arts' commentaries, compiled in this volume, have graced the pages of The Rhode Island Jewish Voice & Herald with wisdom, humor and a compelling humanity. The columns take readers on a journey into the history, heroes, marvels and maladies of ancient and current medical practices, captured in engaging tales. This collection includes stories of Jewish Nobel Prize winners, Biblical and medical giants as well as notables from the Rhode Island and New York Jewish medical communities. Thus, you will read, through a medical, Jewish and universal perspective, of David and Goliath, the Biblical Miriam, the historic Lewis and Clark, Jonas Salk, Alexander Fleming, Metchnikoff, and Maimonides to name but a few, in these pages. Dr. Aronson also reflects on his own humble origins through recollections of growing up in a Jewish immigrant family in Brooklyn. He then broadens the experience to an examination of exile, from the Mosaic era to the present. The commentaries are leavened with the wit and wonder of what were often "perilous" medical encounters, hence the title of this collection. It includes chapters on clinical cases in the Scriptures, the evolution of Judaic medicine, Jewish physicians, the historic development of hospitals, Diaspora and disease, and medical curiosities and customs. The author's penchant for the odd detail ("And He smote them with what?) as well as his innate curiosity ("Jonas Salk, sleuth") and questing spirit ("Lewis and Clark: The Lost Tribes of Israel") illuminate this work.

How long is Perilous Encounters?

Perilous Encounters by Stanley M. Aronson is 236 pages long, and a total of 60,416 words.

This makes it 80% the length of the average book. It also has 74% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Perilous Encounters Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 30 minutes to read Perilous Encounters aloud.

What Reading Level is Perilous Encounters?

Perilous Encounters 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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