Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor by Paul Farmer
Published 2005 · 110,550 words · about 9 hours at an average pace
How hard is Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor to read?
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor 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
- Medical, legal and social-theory vocabulary combined.
- Sentence structure: 65 out of 100
- Long academic sentences, though Farmer writes more clearly than most.
- Abstraction: 68 out of 100
- Case histories constantly generalised into structural argument.
- Information density: 75 out of 100
- Dense with epidemiology, history and testimony.
How Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor is regarded
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor holds a literary regard score of 67 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.