Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin by Megan Rosenbloom

28 reviews

percy_march's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

Overall, this was a pretty good read. It definitely got better as the book progressed, but I did become very invested in and entertained by the stories told by Rosenbloom. We got the French Revolution, we got body-snatchers, we got death positivity, antique book loving, and discussions of body materiality.

What really pissed me off though is her dismissal of any other viewpoints on anthropodermic bibliopegy. She would use any topic to bring up how books containing human remains shouldn't be re-intered and stayed remarkably impartial - uncharacteristically so - when bringing up NAGPRA and repatriation. It was very... "neo-liberal millennial" style of speaking on the issues of historic racism, sexism, and medical abuse. 

Also, if you try to go for the audiobook - the narrator kept doing accents for people she was quoting/referencing, and it was too much. It really, really needed to stop.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Racism, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Child death, Mental illness, Misogyny, Slavery, Violence, Murder, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Sexual violence and Terminal illness

In-depth discussion of the process of tanning leather

apersonfromflorida's review

dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Body horror, Racism, and Murder

Minor: Genocide, Sexual violence, and Antisemitism

gracie_reads_everything's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious medium-paced

4.0

Very fascinating book on a macabre subject. Adds contexts to these objects and rehumanizes remains in a medical setting. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Medical content, and Classism

Minor: Genocide, Gore, Racism, and Medical trauma

edenofalltrades's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Genocide

savvy999's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Slavery, and Medical trauma

aturb92's review against another edition

challenging dark informative mysterious medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical trauma, and Murder

moore2030's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Minor: Genocide, Racism, Slavery, Blood, Antisemitism, Kidnapping, Murder, Cultural appropriation, and Colonisation

rtaire's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Body horror and Murder

Minor: Misogyny, Racism, Sexual violence, Antisemitism, and Classism

painausten314's review

challenging informative mysterious medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, and Classism

j_squaredd's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, and Medical trauma