Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris

32 reviews

kilonshele's review against another edition

dark informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, and Medical content

nicolesbookreviews's review against another edition

challenging dark informative tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Drug use, Gore, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

abbycole's review against another edition

informative tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, and Death of parent

katchadder's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Gore, Blood, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Physical abuse

yourfriendgil's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

4.5

Surgery during the 1800s is explained in a way that is detailed and thorough, leaving little to the imagination. I got about 30 pages in before I thought ‘am I going to be able to keep reading this?’ 

My interest in the topic won over my uneasy digestive system. The writing is both comprehensive yet lacking the dullness of a history textbook. 

I found myself not wanting the book to be over. Which is odd for a book like this.

It is wild to me how things we don’t think twice about today were once unknown … 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

carlafiorenzo's review against another edition

dark informative fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Terminal illness, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

thecozyrogue's review against another edition

informative inspiring medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death of parent and War

sirianoe's review against another edition

dark informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Blood, and Medical content

Moderate: Animal death

calathearosy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

roadki77's review against another edition

dark funny informative medium-paced

5.0

An amazingly informative book, though not for the squeamish. So entertaining that I almost forgot it was non-fiction!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Body shaming, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Abortion, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Classism

Minor: Slavery, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Trafficking, and Pregnancy