Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

El emperador de todos los males: Una biografía del cáncer by Siddhartha Mukherjee

5 reviews

mbrogs2024's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Terminal illness, and Medical content

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Mental illness, Blood, Vomit, Grief, and Medical trauma

Minor: Homophobia, Infertility, Violence, and War

rhubarbpi3's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.75

This was such a good book! So informative, tho I felt it dragged a tad in the final quarter and I wish it had focused a bit more on the historical part because I found that fascinating. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug use, Gore, and Terminal illness

standardissuecat's review against another edition

informative inspiring slow-paced

3.0

Quite slow and it's easy to get caught up in the details. I loved the personal stories, but the biological detail a little less. It would be great for anyone who has a relative with cancer in order to learn about the disease. I also enjoyed the historical lens on this biological topic.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Drug use, Gore, Vomit, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Homophobia, Infertility, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Xenophobia, Excrement, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Colonisation, and Classism

Eugenics mentioned in passing.

melv32's review against another edition

informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, and Medical content