How long does it take to read The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine?
James Le Fanu
The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine by James Le Fanu takes about 8 hours 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 24 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1999. 458 pages, about 125,950 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 24 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 15 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The medical achievements of the post-war years rank as one of the supreme epochs of human endeavor. Advances in surgical technique, new ideas about the nature of disease and huge innovations in drug manufacture vanquished most common causes of early death, But, since the mid-1970s the rate of development has slowed, and the future of medicine is uncertain. How has this happened? James Le Fanu's hugely acclaimed survey of the 'twelve definitive moments' of modern medicine and the intellectual vacuum which followed them has been fully revised and updated for this edition. The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine is both riveting drama and a clarion call for change.(Source: Amazon)
Subjects: History, History of Medicine, Medical innovations, Medicine, Medicine, history, Medicine, philosophy
