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The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetuated in the Name of Science by Sam Kean
12 reviews
bibrarian_'s review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual violence, Slavery, Transphobia, Xenophobia, and Medical content
chelseacrystal's review against another edition
4.75
It’s incredibly well researched and the tone is appropriate given the subject matter without being overly serious.
Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Slavery, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Antisemitism, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail
chemeducator's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail
churrocaitie's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Violence, Medical content, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Genocide, Gore, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Transphobia, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Trafficking
silver_valkyrie_reads's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Medical trauma, Murder, and Classism
Moderate: Child death, Torture, and Grief
Minor: Miscarriage, Pedophilia, and Abortion
siobhanward's review against another edition
3.5
All that to say, this was an interesting read overall. I appreciated that the chapters were fairly long, which meant an in-depth look at the topics at hand, rather than short, disjointed pieces. I will say, however, that a good deal of this felt like an advertisement for Kean's podcast - so many footnotes just ended with "for more info, check out episode x of my podcast" which got annoying pretty quickly.
Overall, Kean handles a number of sensitive topics with respect - the topics he chose were interesting and seemingly well-researched, and I enjoyed learning more about things I only had a general knowledge of before (including what an ice pick is apparently, because I realized while reading, I always pictured ice axes before...).
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Violence, and Medical content
Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Colonisation, and Dysphoria
Minor: Antisemitism and Abortion
gk1412's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Incest, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Antisemitism, Suicide attempt, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Colonisation, Classism, and Deportation
reggiethebird's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Medical content and Medical trauma
Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, Torture, Transphobia, and Suicide attempt
monstersinspace's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Mental illness, and Alcohol
Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Racism, Slavery, Suicide, Blood, Antisemitism, Gaslighting, and Colonisation
kbergsten's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Antisemitism, Medical content, Medical trauma, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism