Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Konsten att skära i kroppar : Joseph Lister & den moderna kirurgins födelse by Lindsey Fitzharris

23 reviews

yourfriendgil's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

4.5

Surgery during the 1800s is explained in a way that is detailed and thorough, leaving little to the imagination. I got about 30 pages in before I thought ‘am I going to be able to keep reading this?’ 

My interest in the topic won over my uneasy digestive system. The writing is both comprehensive yet lacking the dullness of a history textbook. 

I found myself not wanting the book to be over. Which is odd for a book like this.

It is wild to me how things we don’t think twice about today were once unknown … 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

carlafiorenzo's review against another edition

dark informative fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Terminal illness, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

thecozyrogue's review against another edition

informative inspiring medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death of parent and War

sirianoe's review against another edition

dark informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Blood, and Medical content

Moderate: Animal death

calathearosy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

roadki77's review against another edition

dark funny informative medium-paced

5.0

An amazingly informative book, though not for the squeamish. So entertaining that I almost forgot it was non-fiction!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Body shaming, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Abortion, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Classism

Minor: Slavery, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Trafficking, and Pregnancy

morbidanatomy's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Blood, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

lizzyrai's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

bronbaewr's review against another edition

adventurous funny informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Blood, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Child death, Gore, Sexual violence, and Excrement

Minor: Ableism

hanarama's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

4.0

A well written narrative of Dr. Joseph Lister, the man that successfully introduced hand washing and anti-septic practices to Western medicine. 

Fitzharris provides a lot of historical insight into Victorian medical practices, highlighting how gruesome and ineffectual they often were before germ theory was fully accepted and understood. She presents the narrative in an interesting and easy to follow manner, giving the reader enough background to understand Lister's impact without bogging down the biographical aspects. 

I wonder if there was some information left out of the narrative though. It's well known now that racial minorities and women were often treated with experimental procedures against their will. The book doesn't make it clear if Lister also did this, though he was known to have better bedside manner and empathy towards his patients for the time. I would have liked for this topic to have been explored more so that we could see how Lister fit into this terrible aspect of medical history. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Animal death, Cancer, and Blood