Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Andrew Wakefield's war on vaccines by Brian Deer

5 reviews

akizato's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

4.75

A super informative read on the MMR scandal and the origins of the modern anti-vax movement. Brian Deer does an incredible job at breaking down his lengthy investigation of the main players and keeps the tension up throughout. My only problem (causing me to dock a half star) is the way he sometimes described the villains of the piece, which often relied on fatphobia and the whole "ugly=evil" trope, and sometimes veered into outright sexist tropes (the way he describes some of the antivax ladies as the attractive, almost "temptress", stereotype really rubbed me the wrong way in a few places, compared to how he describes women on the side of truth). But overall a really good read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Medical content and Medical trauma

smallredboy's review against another edition

challenging dark funny informative medium-paced

5.0

Holy shit this book is really good. Deer's prose grips you and pulls you right in with no stops or breaks; sometimes it's downright distressing, sometimes it's hilarious. He speaks from a place of knowledge and I loved reading this very detailed breakdown of the facts and how we got here, to the anti-vaccine crisis of today. Very good book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Child death

render's review

emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

3.5

What I wanted was Bad Blood, what I got was extremely British journo against the world. It's informative but very opinionated. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Ableism

sarq_the_mighty's review

challenging dark informative slow-paced

4.0

Brian Deer provides a hearty summary of nearly 20 years' work uncovering the fraud at the heart of the 'vaccines cause autism' controversy. While not fast paced and not always an easy read, this work is necessary and highly informative. This book is so well structured that even though he peels back layers to reveal yet more layers, Deer never lets you get lost.

Deer also never loses focus in reminding us that this work has had very real impacts on people, and he time and again comes back to the families who've borne the brunt of Wakefield's deception. </spoilers>

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: Medical trauma and Violence

abithereader's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Medical content, and Medical trauma