Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology by Deirdre Cooper Owens

5 reviews

princxporkchop's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Infertility, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

cleot's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

My only criticism is that several of the quotes and anecdotes are repeated several times in their entirety, rather than just referencing the prior passage. Otherwise a very informative and important work. Brace yourself for some rough reading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Xenophobia, Abortion, and Classism

Minor: Infertility

Content warnings are in line with the experience of black and immigrant women in slavery and indenture who were used without their consent to serve as subjects in research in gynecology via non-anaesthetized surgeries, to include accounts of the abuse and sexual violence they experienced in advance of seeking medical care. Very graphic.

lyzz's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Infertility, Terminal illness, and Grief

mlovesbooks's review against another edition

challenging informative fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Racism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Infertility

bardic_llama's review against another edition

challenging dark informative medium-paced

3.5

With the title, it seemed as it was going to be encompassing multiple eras of history and groups so it was somewhat disappointing to discover it was only about the era surrounding antebellum south. Cause it seems like that should’ve been a good chunk of the book but not all of it. Like I was expecting the book to go over how being transgender has affected gynecology as well. Even then the book was still more about covering the procedures instead of the individual people & groups.

That said it was still a good read, I just think this is one of those where I’d be more interested in reading the person’s research for the book instead. And I’m still happy (happy’s not the right word) to have read this as I was able to learn a vast majority of medical advances in gynecology were at the expense/torment of slaves. Which while I want to say is surprising, at least to me, it isn’t as America was built on the back of racist institutions/disparities that still haven’t been fixed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Rape, Sexual violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Colonisation