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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: Child abuse, Torture, Antisemitism, Slavery, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Medical content, Colonisation, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Forced institutionalization, and Body horror
churrocaitie's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death, Drug use, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Violence
Moderate: Child abuse, War, Genocide, Animal cruelty, Sexual content, Slavery, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Torture, Transphobia, Animal death, Murder, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Gore, and Racism
Minor: Trafficking
boop123's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Medical content, Rape, Medical trauma, Murder, Animal cruelty, Slavery, Violence, Suicide, Sexual assault, Death, Body horror, Racism, and Gore
Moderate: Pedophilia, Transphobia, War, and Antisemitism
Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Adult/minor relationship, and Miscarriage
angela_iseli's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Medical content, Gore, Medical trauma, Murder, and Body horror
alyssatuininga's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Animal death, Slavery, Murder, Torture, Animal cruelty, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical trauma
silver_valkyrie_reads's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Animal death, Classism, Medical trauma, Child abuse, Animal cruelty, and Murder
Moderate: Child death, Grief, and Torture
Minor: Abortion, Pedophilia, and Miscarriage
gk1412's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Colonisation, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Antisemitism, Death, Racism, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, Blood, Body shaming, Child abuse, Deportation, Hate crime, Transphobia, Incest, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Slavery, Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Classism, Forced institutionalization, Homophobia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Violence
mfrisk's review against another edition
3.0
I note this because while I find the overall subject interesting and also important in terms of the fields of science, medicine, and fields which intersect with these areas I don’t feel like these stories were given the appropriate weight and critical lens. As many reviewers mention inappropriate terminology is used for a variety of marginalized populations within this book and I often felt the author was trying to get a laugh out of us (the readers) more than they were working to connect the story to their larger point of morality and ethics. The podcast plugs were annoying but not as egregious as the lack of depth certain stories were given when they covered very sensitive topics. It may not have hurt for their to be additional commentary from other folks especially in stories where marginalized populations were involved and that was only touched on a surface level. I’ve listened to the podcast as well after reading some stories in this book and it has similar issues seen in this book.
Also want to add this book could have used a more central defining element or at least narrowing down to specific field or some other way to make this more focused. It often was confusing that the stories felt so disconnected and the conclusion doesn’t quite pull together the ideas enough.
Graphic: Medical content, Slavery, Self harm, Misogyny, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Forced institutionalization, Colonisation, Torture, Suicide, Sexual harassment, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Murder, Racism, and Sexism
kyliebloch's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Murder, Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Slavery
kc_onmybookshelf's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Animal death, Antisemitism, Blood, Medical trauma, Animal cruelty, and Medical content
Moderate: Murder, Suicide, and Torture