Reviews tagging 'Violence'

How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS by David France

5 reviews

atlantisblauw's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring sad slow-paced

5.0

One of the best books I've read. It's interesting to learn more about history this way, to understand what things actually mean for human lives. It's quite heartbreaking sometimes, these people had to go through so much. They lost so many people, they were so sick, and then got blamed for it and fired and lost their houses. It's unimaginable.

On the one hand, we've come a long way: things have definitely improved when it comes to prevention, treatment, human rights. (Although gay people still can't donate blood.). On the other hand it's kind of depressing that on a larger scale, we still value the lives of straight white rich people, specifically men, more than those of others. You can see that when you look at how we dealt with the Covid pandemic, both in that we managed to find a vaccine in eight months and that we focused on getting our own vaccine first, and even the second dose before the rest of the world got access to them. 

I sometimes wonder what will happen with climate change, when mosquitos bring tropical diseases, or what if we have an Ebola outbreak? Will we then finally create vaccines and cures? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Homophobia, Terminal illness, Grief, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Drug use, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Medical content, Religious bigotry, and Injury/Injury detail

apersonallibrary's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Biphobia, Cancer, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Outing, and Pandemic/Epidemic

maggieparedesauthor's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring tense slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Bullying, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Transphobia, Violence, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Lesbophobia, and Gaslighting

readingatthemuseum's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

junefish's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, Homophobia, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Child death, Racism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Police brutality, Murder, Outing, and Abandonment

Minor: Confinement, Suicide, and Pregnancy