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

bgirl1214's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

phonte's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

incredibly powerful book. If the content of the book wasn't saturated with technical knowledge I would recommend for everyone to read this book. It truthfully goes to show how biases/behaviors that exist within cultures don't populate overnight and simmer through generations. I commend Ms. Washington for compiling all the evidence that probably took tens of years to obtain and collecting accounts from individuals that were effected.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Hate crime, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

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

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

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

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

Minor: Infertility

lizmart88's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

3.75

Whew. This book is heavy. And it contains so much truth that people need to hear. Harriet Washington doesn't shy away from the nuance and complexities around experimentation by medical authorities on Black bodies.

She discusses grave robbing and vaccine experiments. She covers the major scandals that many of us have likely heard about from the Tuskegee syphilis experiments to sterilization and experimentation of Black and women of color. She adds a lot of nuance and history to those episodes, covering the main facts as well as clear analysis about what drive the medical doctors to pursue those experiments and how it is reflective of white supremacy.

I learned a great deal from this book. I'll definitely be taking these lessons forward. There's really good reasons why Black men and women, and other people of color, have serious distrust of the medical system in this country. We can't ignore the true history when it's outlined so clearly and well.

It's not an easy read, but I still encourage people - especially doctors and those in the medical field - to confront our history with your own eyes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma

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

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