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churrocaitie's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Violence, Medical content, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Genocide, Gore, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Transphobia, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Trafficking
reggiethebird's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Medical content and Medical trauma
Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, Torture, Transphobia, and Suicide attempt
mfrisk's review against another edition
3.0
I note this because while I find the overall subject interesting and also important in terms of the fields of science, medicine, and fields which intersect with these areas I don’t feel like these stories were given the appropriate weight and critical lens. As many reviewers mention inappropriate terminology is used for a variety of marginalized populations within this book and I often felt the author was trying to get a laugh out of us (the readers) more than they were working to connect the story to their larger point of morality and ethics. The podcast plugs were annoying but not as egregious as the lack of depth certain stories were given when they covered very sensitive topics. It may not have hurt for their to be additional commentary from other folks especially in stories where marginalized populations were involved and that was only touched on a surface level. I’ve listened to the podcast as well after reading some stories in this book and it has similar issues seen in this book.
Also want to add this book could have used a more central defining element or at least narrowing down to specific field or some other way to make this more focused. It often was confusing that the stories felt so disconnected and the conclusion doesn’t quite pull together the ideas enough.
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Murder, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail