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The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetuated in the Name of Science by Sam Kean
6 reviews
fiona_gs's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gore, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Dysphoria
boop123's review
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
silver_valkyrie_reads's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Medical trauma, Murder, and Classism
Moderate: Child death, Torture, and Grief
Minor: Miscarriage, Pedophilia, and Abortion
kbergsten's review
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
_dasbrot's review
2.0
but...the way its written makes some chapters (e.x. the one about Edison and Tesla) very hard to get through because you can't tell whether it was written with actual bias or if that was just the tone, something i found incredibly frustrating.
he used outdated and racist terms about indigenous people to "stay true to the time" the stories were in, which i felt was unnecessary.
also the chapter that talked about sex and gender did not mention nonbinary people and used he/she instead of they, so while it handled it okay overall, it was lacking for a book that came out so recently.
there was also a use of "schizoid" and "OCD" as adjectives to call something "crazy", etc. which is was incredibly disappointing and ableist.
overall, i don't think i would reccomend it to anyone, but i didn't have a completely bad time reading it.
Graphic: Ableism, Mental illness, Racial slurs, and Medical content
Moderate: Suicide, Torture, and Suicide attempt
Minor: Mental illness and Miscarriage
use of ableist and racist terminology where it was unneededakazzy8's review
4.75
Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Racism, Slavery, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail
While there are many content warnings, I would mention they are stated in more of a detached academic fashion. While there are horrible portions, it is not always written like a story, so readers detachment from some of these acts make this book less "graphic". This certainly is not to say that these warnings aren't still there!