Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

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

9 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

chickelope's review

challenging dark informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Genocide, Sexual violence, Suicide, Blood, Gaslighting, and Colonisation

corriejn's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

4.75

Some particular details a bit outdated (published in 2007) but the overall message is not. Of course not at all a light read, but a valuable one. 

Note that there is description of some fairly graphic/brutal stuff right at the beginning, but there's nothing especially *worse* than that in the rest of the book (though of course it talks about plenty of terrible stuff, but just FYI that the entire book isn't just that kind of content on every page-- so don't be discouraged from sticking with the rest, if the beginning is a bit hard to stomach).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Colonisation

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic

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

careinthelibrary's review against another edition

dark informative sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infertility, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Pregnancy

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

bellagrace's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Infertility, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, and Violence