How Long to Read The Woman who Walked Into the Sea

How Long Does it Take to Read The Woman who Walked Into the Sea?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 16 minutes to read The Woman who Walked Into the Sea by Alice Wexler

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

Description

When Phebe Hedges, a woman in East Hampton, New York, walked into the sea in 1806, she made visible the historical experience of a family affected by the dreaded disorder of movement, mind, and mood her neighbors called St.Vitus's dance. Doctors later spoke of Huntington’s chorea, and today it is known as Huntington's disease. This book is the first history of Huntington’s in America. Starting with the life of Phebe Hedges, Alice Wexler uses Huntington’s as a lens to explore the changing meanings of heredity, disability, stigma, and medical knowledge among ordinary people as well as scientists and physicians. She addresses these themes through three overlapping stories: the lives of a nineteenth-century family once said to “belong to the disease”; the emergence of Huntington’s chorea as a clinical entity; and the early-twentieth-century transformation of this disorder into a cautionary eugenics tale. In our own era of expanding genetic technologies, this history offers insights into the social contexts of medical and scientific knowledge, as well as the legacy of eugenics in shaping both the knowledge and the lived experience of this disease.

How long is The Woman who Walked Into the Sea?

The Woman who Walked Into the Sea by Alice Wexler is 253 pages long, and a total of 64,009 words.

This makes it 85% the length of the average book. It also has 78% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Woman who Walked Into the Sea Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 49 minutes to read The Woman who Walked Into the Sea aloud.

What Reading Level is The Woman who Walked Into the Sea?

The Woman who Walked Into the Sea 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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