Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

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

7 reviews

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

reggiethebird's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny informative sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma and Medical content

Moderate: Torture, Transphobia, Body horror, Child abuse, Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Sexual content

mfrisk's review against another edition

challenging dark informative slow-paced

3.0

I’ve been reading a lot more this year and getting through books quicker especially those I’ve enjoyed. However, this read took me several months to finish. 

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. 

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Content Warnings

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

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

_dasbrot's review against another edition

dark informative fast-paced

2.0

for the most part, this book was alright. it had some interesting chapters — especially the one about the guy who set Russian biology back 50 years, and the Appendix. 
but...the way its written makes some chapters (e.x. the one about Edison and Tesla) very hard to get through because you can't tell whether it was written with actual bias or if that was just the tone, something i found incredibly frustrating. 
he used outdated and racist terms about indigenous people to "stay true to the time" the stories were in, which i felt was unnecessary. 
also the chapter that talked about sex and gender did not mention nonbinary people and used he/she instead of they, so while it handled it okay overall, it was lacking for a book that came out so recently. 
there was also a use of "schizoid" and "OCD" as adjectives to call something "crazy", etc. which is was incredibly disappointing and ableist. 

overall, i don't think i would reccomend it to anyone, but i didn't have a completely bad time reading it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Racial slurs, Medical content, and Mental illness

Moderate: Torture, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Miscarriage and Mental illness

use of ableist and racist terminology where it was unneeded

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

reviewsandreadathons's review against another edition

dark funny informative sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Medical content, Ableism, Death, Deadnaming, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, and Transphobia