Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick by Maya Dusenbery

3 reviews

beetree's review against another edition

challenging informative sad slow-paced

3.5

This is a really important book but I found it dry and repetitive, despite being passionate about this topic. It’s structure and formatting (very long chapters sometimes) didn’t work for me and because of the repetition, I sometimes lost the point of the chapters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism and Gaslighting

Moderate: Ableism, Cancer, Chronic illness, Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Medical trauma, Colonisation, and Classism

alexisgarcia's review against another edition

informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

this is definitely a hard book, especially for someone like me who has autoimmune conditions. but in that way, it was informative and validating. i would definitely recommend this but it’s good to take into account that this is a depressing read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infertility, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Suicide, Transphobia, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

arayo's review against another edition

informative sad

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Misogyny, Sexism, and Medical content

Moderate: Ableism, Cancer, Fatphobia, Infertility, Racism, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Classism