Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

Wszystkie podłości nauki. Morderstwa, oszustwa i kradzieże popełniane przez naukowców by Sam Kean

8 reviews

fiona_gs's review against another edition

dark informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

An interesting stroll down the more medial and natural science bad science. Well presented but felt listening to the audio book narrator was good but given the author does a podcast but didn't read his own book just got to me abit. Though I do love this narrator too and have head him on a number of books. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Gore, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Physical abuse, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, and Pedophilia

gk1412's review against another edition

challenging dark informative mysterious reflective fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

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

phoebemurtagh's review against another edition

dark funny sad medium-paced

3.5

3.5 stars

They some things shouldn't be attempted by the faint of heart or squeamish. As a squeamish person myself, I'd like to refine that: you can most certainly attempt, but you might need to skim through the physical descriptions of how to perform an ice pick lobotomy.
This was a good collection of scientists gone bad: some of the stories were disturbing and familiar ones I'd already heard, while some were disturbing and new. My only criticisms would be that while such a book must necessarily take a dark sense of humor, I found the author's attempts at levity in the face of evil just a little irreverent sometimes. More disappointingly, though, the author refers to bunk science as "voodoo" in at least one place; it's a small thing, but perpetuating a stereotype that African disaporic religious traditions that developed as a result of American slavery are somehow 'less valid' and the equivalent of bad science is below the mark for any journalist.
All in all, I preferred The Disappearing Spoon, but this is a good book, too.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Gore, Classism, Animal death, Religious bigotry, Torture, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, Medical trauma, Colonisation, Emotional abuse, Racism, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Death, Animal cruelty, Ableism, Injury/Injury detail, and Body horror

chupacobbruh's review against another edition

dark funny informative medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Mental illness, Slavery, Physical abuse, Body horror, and Medical trauma

kbergsten's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Homophobia, Gaslighting, Gore, Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Torture, Transphobia, Ableism, Abortion, Animal death, Antisemitism, Child abuse, Classism, Colonisation, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Self harm, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Violence, Physical abuse, and Rape

clarabooksit's review against another edition

dark informative reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Dysphoria, Xenophobia, Violence, Torture, Medical content, Animal cruelty, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Classism, Mental illness, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Racism, Misogyny, Medical trauma, Genocide, Colonisation, Child abuse, and Antisemitism

Moderate: Suicide and Suicide attempt

Minor: Addiction and Alcoholism

readundancies's review against another edition

dark informative reflective

4.0

This non-fiction read was my kinda morbid. I loved the scientific context mixed with the true crime documentary tone of the writing. 

Let it be known that this is not for the faint of heart. A lot of the more disillusioning and heavy content is covered in a very clinical way, and it can take a bit of getting used to. There are some really coldhearted individuals out there and this book highlights some of the most infamous of the lot. 

It’s so interesting though. I was living for this content. The number of times I said What the fuck?!? while reading was too many. 

At this point I should probably mention that I read this non-chronologically. It’s written in a way that each chapter is directly connected to and leads into the next. But, I was feeling out of sorts and decided to switch things up and read all over the place with respect to chapters. I didn't find it even mildly disconcerting, so I'd say if you wanted to read chapters out of order, it's very doable. 

My favourite chapters in no particular order include: 

• Piracy: The Buccaneer Biologist
• Slavery: The Corruption of the Flycatcher
• Grave-Robbing: Jekyll & Hyde, Hunter & Knox
• Murder: The Professor and the Janitor
• Ambition: Surgery for the Soul
• Malpractice: Sex, Power, and Money
• Fraud: Superwoman.

If you're looking for a science-based non-fiction read with some true crime flair to the writing, I definitely recommend this.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Death, Dysphoria, Gore, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Slavery, Torture, and Violence

sunshinestark's review against another edition

dark informative fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Antisemitism, Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Racism, Slavery, and Torture