Reviews tagging 'Forced institutionalization'

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

7 reviews

bgirl1214's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Racism, Medical content, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Genocide, Terminal illness, Slavery, and Hate crime

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

valkyriejmu's review

challenging dark informative sad tense slow-paced

4.0

This book is informative. It is also depressing AF. I added all the content warnings, but it serves a purpose, it's not just a warning of triggers. This is what has been done to African Americans throughout history in the name of science (in most cases) and I think it's important to know. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Body horror, Racism, Sexism, Medical content, Medical trauma, Torture, Death, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, and Kidnapping

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

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

Minor: Infertility

shellig93's review against another edition

dark emotional informative slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

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

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