Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues by Paul Farmer
Published 2001 · 115,225 words · about 10 hours at an average pace
How hard is Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues to read?
Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues scores 61 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. 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: 65 out of 100
- Clinical and social-science vocabulary throughout.
- Sentence structure: 65 out of 100
- Long academic sentences.
- Abstraction: 65 out of 100
- Individual cases repeatedly reframed as structural violence.
- Information density: 75 out of 100
- Dense with epidemiological and ethnographic material.
How Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues is regarded
Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues holds a literary regard score of 63 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.