Reviews tagging 'Pandemic/Epidemic'

The Pain Gap: How Sexism and Racism in Healthcare Kill Women by Anushay Hossain

3 reviews

bea_reads_books's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative

3.75

This book has a lot of important information, and a lot of things I did not know. I do wish that trans and indigenous people hadn’t felt so much like a footnote though, and I don’t think disability was mentioned even once that I remember.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Medical content, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, and Pandemic/Epidemic

tender_onion's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

3.5

With the exception of quoting others, the language chosen by the author is cisheteronormative, and almost exclusively describes experiences of cisgender women. 

This was a bit of a let down for a book that was otherwise intersectional, as it failed to share/reflect on how many of the topics discussed also impact trans people, and not just people who were assigned female at birth (including trans men, trans women, nonbinary folks, two-spirit people, agender people, gender nonconforming folks, and everyone else whose gender resides outside of the gender binary). 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Colonisation, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

sisakat's review against another edition

informative sad medium-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Blood, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Car accident, Abortion, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

The subject matter of the entire book is quite heavy reading. The book mostly doesn't go too graphic description on most of these, but it does cover a lot of stories involving women facing sexism and/or racism in a medical context (especially maternal/child birth situations), and the outcomes related to that. There is significant discussions of hospitals, pain, injuries, illness, and death, with both broad statistics and individuals' personal stories. There's at least a few instances it describes sexual assault, but it's written in a more informational tone, and not extended detail. There's some discussion of historical (long ago to near -present) medical experimentation. It also discusses the events of the pandemic and George Floyd protests in relating them to women's health.