Reviews tagging 'Classism'

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington

6 reviews

mermaidread's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Chronic illness, Death, Hate crime, Racism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Medical trauma, Abortion, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Colonisation, and Classism

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Drug abuse, Genocide, Gore, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexism, Terminal illness, Blood, Police brutality, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

crybabybea's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

3.0

Useful information that covered a wide timeline. A bit repetitive and hard to follow at times. I think this was a bit too academic for me, a lot of it went over my head, and I'd like to revisit it sometime in the future to really study it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Genocide, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Slavery, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Medical trauma, Abortion, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

phonte's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

incredibly powerful book. If the content of the book wasn't saturated with technical knowledge I would recommend for everyone to read this book. It truthfully goes to show how biases/behaviors that exist within cultures don't populate overnight and simmer through generations. I commend Ms. Washington for compiling all the evidence that probably took tens of years to obtain and collecting accounts from individuals that were effected.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Hate crime, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

corngod31's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

It's so much more than Tuskegee.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

shellig93's review against another edition

dark emotional informative slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Racism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

holliholtsford's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

This was, without a doubt, the most difficult book I've ever read. Though masterfully written and explosive, I had to take several mental health breaks to regroup. My stomach and heart ached, my anger flared, and my soul hurt; but my life has been improved having read this. Self education is so incredibly important, especially for parents. We can never hope to do better until we know better, and we can never fully know better until we open our eyes to the full force of what happened and is happening.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Cannibalism, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, and Classism