Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

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

32 reviews

pigeonfrog's review against another edition

challenging dark informative fast-paced

5.0

Incredibly necessary book. It goes so much deeper than the regular societal perception and knowledge of race and discrimination in medicine and highlights the stories of individuals, cases, and movements that are crucial to understanding the justified iatrophobia and climate today. Very well researched and detailed book with many notes and a comprehensive bibliography at the end 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma

Moderate: Racism and Slavery

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

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

madkat37's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative medium-paced

5.0

This an absolute must read… shocking and incredibly informative.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Medical trauma, Abortion, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, and Pandemic/Epidemic

grem_ler's review

challenging informative medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Medical trauma

courtney_scott1025's review against another edition

challenging sad medium-paced

5.0

Wow. I listened to this audiobook, and it flew by. I have read a couple of books regarding race and medical history, but this is the most complete, thought-provoking one. 

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Content Warnings

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

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

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