Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum

2 reviews

evgeorge's review against another edition

This wasn’t what I expected or hoped. It is a good overview of how one forensic scientist went up against the New York City boss system and developed the methodologies to identify the effects of chemicals on the human body. I had hoped for a narrower story about poisoners in the Jazz Age. Stories of chronic wasting disease, horrifying industrial injury and crumbling bones are not for me. Others with medical interest, less squeamish and visual may enjoy this. It is well written. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, and Alcohol

junefish's review against another edition

dark funny informative mysterious fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, and Suicide

Minor: Cancer, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Forced institutionalization, and Vomit