Reviews tagging 'Torture'

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

9 reviews

careinthelibrary's review against another edition

dark informative sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Pregnancy

courtofcatsandcoffee's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad slow-paced

5.0

▫️genre: historical non-fic
▫️trope: n/a
▫️format: audio 

↠ NINETEEN HOURS LATER 😥 
↠ Dense novel documenting the horrific medical experiments performed on Blacks and African-Americans from slavery to present
↠ Extremely graphic, harrowing, read
↠ I’m mad it took me 30 years to learn about this. 
↠ The amount of complicit medical schools in the underground trade of black bodies is astounding and all should be held accountable
↠ This book left me feeling angry. Knowing most  medical breakthroughs came out of treating black people like lab rats… just sickening

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Violence, Physical abuse, Racism, Torture, Medical trauma, and Emotional abuse

keatynbergsten's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Torture, Medical trauma, and Racism

nappyreadjojoba's review against another edition

challenging dark informative slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Genocide, Hate crime, Injury/injury detail, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Racism, Slavery, Torture, Terminal illness, Trafficking, and Violence

marieprem08's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

5.0

I hard read but a necessary one! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Hate crime, Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, and Torture

sucrose's review against another edition

dark informative slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Hate crime, Medical content, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Racism, Slavery, and Torture

snd1101's review

challenging dark informative slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

gracestella's review against another edition

dark informative sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, and Torture

bellagrace's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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