How Long to Read Surgery and Salvation

How Long Does it Take to Read Surgery and Salvation?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 49 minutes to read Surgery and Salvation by Elizabeth O'Brien

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

Description

In this sweeping history of reproductive surgery in Mexico, Elizabeth O'Brien traces the interstices of religion, reproduction, and obstetric racism from the end of the Spanish empire through the post-revolutionary 1930s. Examining medical ideas about operations (including cesarean section, abortion, hysterectomy, and eugenic sterilization), Catholic theology, and notions of modernity and identity, O'Brien argues that present-day claims about fetal personhood are rooted in the use of surgical force against marginalized and racialized women. This history illuminates the theological, patriarchal, and epistemological roots of obstetric violence and racism today. O'Brien illustrates how ideas about maternal worth and unborn life developed in tandem. Eighteenth-century priests sought to save unborn souls through cesarean section, while nineteenth-century doctors aimed to salvage some unmarried women's social reputations via therapeutic abortion. By the twentieth century, eugenicists wished to regenerate the nation's racial profile, in part by sterilizing women in public clinics. The belief that medical interventions could redeem women, children, and the nation is what O'Brien refers to as "salvation though surgery." As operations acquired racial and religious significances, Indigenous, Afro-Mexican, and mixed-race people's bodies became sites for surgical experimentation. Even during periods of Church-state conflict, O'Brien argues, the religious valences of experimental surgery manifested in embodied expressions of racialized, and often-coercive, medical science.

How long is Surgery and Salvation?

Surgery and Salvation by Elizabeth O'Brien is 225 pages long, and a total of 57,375 words.

This makes it 76% the length of the average book. It also has 70% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Surgery and Salvation Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 13 minutes to read Surgery and Salvation aloud.

What Reading Level is Surgery and Salvation?

Surgery and Salvation is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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