Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

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

5 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

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

mirandahems's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

good book, well written. anyone working in medical research should read this. would like to read a new edition of the book since the information is now 20 years old and medicine moves fast

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Racial slurs, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Infertility

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