How long does it take to read The Social Transformation of American Medicine?
Paul Starr
The Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr takes about 9 hours 25 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 25 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1978. 514 pages, about 141,350 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 42 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 25 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 53 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
An esoteric, intelligent, and scholarly book on how the industry of medicine in the US. If you really want to understand how medicine has become a business instead of a noble profession is understandable after this must read book. You can pretend to have an understanding or you can actually know what you are talking about. This book is well researched and referenced but does not read as an academic treatise.
Subjects: History, History of medicine, Modern, Medical care, Modern History of Medicine, Physicians, Social medicine
