Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara

13 reviews

andeulea's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Slavery, Violence, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape and Torture

Minor: War

tey_lynn's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Trafficking, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Pregnancy

anna_wa's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Physical abuse, Racism, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Pandemic/Epidemic

ohlhauc's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racism, Slavery, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Trafficking, Grief, Death of parent, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Chronic illness, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Sexual harassment, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Alcoholism, Kidnapping, and Alcohol

smilagros's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

I am still boycotting SMP but I think people need to read this book now. There is a genocide happening in the Congo and Sudan and this helps bring awareness to what is happening in the Congo. 

I will forever feel guilty for using the technology I use on a daily basis. People should never be forced into these terrible conditions due to the demand. My heart breaks for every single person who has lost their lives trying to make a living. Listening to the children stories made me angry at the world because they should be playing and learning. Not being forced to do this inhumane labor. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Rape, Police brutality, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

meat_muffin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Slavery, Trafficking, Grief, Death of parent, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Genocide, Gun violence, Physical abuse, and Medical trauma

Minor: Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Police brutality, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic

melnao1's review against another edition

challenging dark informative medium-paced

4.25

eye opening and daunting. It's crazy the parallels that this life offers. While we scroll on our endless timelines, there are children and adults working in their graves making less than $2 dollars a day to power those screens. The conditions of cobalt mining go way beyond inhumane/exploitation, it was pretty hard to read about. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Violence, Trafficking, Medical trauma, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

ecn's review

5.0

Mandatory reading!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Infertility, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Trafficking, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

ekmartin's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Physical abuse, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Colonisation, War, and Classism

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Genocide, Racism, Rape, Torture, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

jasisreading's review against another edition

While I think the connection the author makes between the previous exploitation of the Congo and the current exploitation, is a solid base for a novel it does not go far enough. I wish there had been more interrogation about the companies themselves and what they have been doing. Allowing the interrogation to be interwoven with the personal anecdotes would have been a more impactful. As it is, the writing feels more akin for a long form journal essay than full-length novel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Genocide, Xenophobia, Colonisation, and Classism

Moderate: Medical trauma and War

had to DNF when I got the line “While violence is not the answer, I understand why…” when talking about the residents fighting back against the direct harm a mining company was causing them. Like?? That was a takeaway????