Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service by Maryn McKenna
Published 2014
How hard is Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service to read?
Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service scores 43 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 45 out of 100
- Epidemiological vocabulary, glossed.
- Sentence structure: 45 out of 100
- Clear reportorial sentences.
- Abstraction: 45 out of 100
- Concrete outbreak stories.
- Information density: 58 out of 100
- Many cases across many years.
How Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service is regarded
Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service holds a literary regard score of 34 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.