It takes the average reader 5 hours and 51 minutes to read The Medicalized Body and Anesthetic Culture by Brent Dean Robbins
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This book examines how modern medicine’s mechanistic conception of the body has become a defense mechanism to cope with death anxiety. Robbins draws from research on the phenomenology of the body, the history of cadaver dissection, and empirical research in terror management theory to highlight how medical culture operates as an agent which promotes anesthetic consciousness as a habit of perception. In short, modern medicine’s comportment toward the cadaver promotes the suppression of the memory of the person who donated their body. This suppression of the memorial body comes at the price of...
The Medicalized Body and Anesthetic Culture by Brent Dean Robbins is 345 pages long, and a total of 87,975 words.
This makes it 116% the length of the average book. It also has 108% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours to read The Medicalized Body and Anesthetic Culture aloud.
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