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boop123's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Death, Gore, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicide, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Murder
Moderate: Pedophilia, Transphobia, Antisemitism, and War
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Miscarriage, and Pandemic/Epidemic
gk1412's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Incest, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Antisemitism, Suicide attempt, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Colonisation, Classism, and Deportation
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
shelbycundiff's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Body horror and Medical trauma
Moderate: Slavery, Suicide, and Medical content
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
monstersinspace's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Mental illness, and Alcohol
Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Racism, Slavery, Suicide, Blood, Antisemitism, Gaslighting, and Colonisation
chloethonus's review against another edition
4.75
My only critique is some outdated language like calling Native Americans "Indians" and the prologue about Cleopatra being very clumsy. The prologue is made up of information that can't be proven which is a questionable start for this book. The language, however, bothers me more. Native Americans should be respected and referred to using proper terms that do not have to do with the entirely unrelated nation of Indian. Native American, indigenous peoples, tribe name, there are a lot of options.
Graphic: Slavery and Medical trauma
Moderate: Racism, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, and Xenophobia
Minor: Misogyny
kbergsten's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Antisemitism, Medical content, Medical trauma, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
kc_onmybookshelf's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Antisemitism, Medical content, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Suicide, Torture, and Murder
panthalassa's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Mental illness, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Transphobia, Antisemitism, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Deadnaming, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Grief, and Dysphoria
Minor: Addiction, Rape, and Abortion