How Long to Read The Making of a Social Disease

How Long Does it Take to Read The Making of a Social Disease?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 30 minutes to read The Making of a Social Disease by David S. Barnes

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

Description

In this first English-language study of popular and scientific responses to tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France, David Barnes provides a much-needed historical perspective on a disease that is making an alarming comeback in the United States and Europe. Barnes argues that French perceptions of the disease—ranging from the early romantic image of a consumptive woman to the later view of a scourge spread by the poor—owed more to the power structures of nineteenth-century society than to medical science. By 1900, the war against tuberculosis had become a war against the dirty habits of the...

How long is The Making of a Social Disease?

The Making of a Social Disease by David S. Barnes is 330 pages long, and a total of 82,500 words.

This makes it 111% the length of the average book. It also has 101% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Making of a Social Disease Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 30 minutes to read The Making of a Social Disease aloud.

What Reading Level is The Making of a Social Disease?

The Making of a Social Disease 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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