Reviews tagging 'Rape'

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

8 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

loriley's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Abortion, and Colonisation

Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicide, Xenophobia, Car accident, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

meredithgweiss's review against another edition

informative sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Hate crime, Racism, Rape, Slavery, and Violence

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

isopodcalyptic's review against another edition

challenging dark informative slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, and Medical trauma

yalibrarianjen's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

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

snd1101's review against another edition

challenging dark informative slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Slavery, Torture, Medical content, and Medical trauma