Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

45 reviews

aubreystrawberry's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Cancer, Medical trauma, Alcoholism, Death, Death of parent, Incest, Sexual violence, Slavery, Terminal illness, Racism, Sexual harassment, Chronic illness, Sexual assault, Child death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Rape

Moderate: Suicide, Pregnancy, Pedophilia, Abandonment, Racial slurs, and Addiction

lydia_smith's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

Fascinating read about how medical science is deeply personal. Henrietta Lacks' cells made mind-bogglingly massive contributions to science, and there was a very real, very human, family behind all of it. This made me think, and I even learned some molecular biology along the way.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing and Medical trauma

Moderate: Death, Sexual assault, and Physical abuse

jodean's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Death, Ableism, Racism, Terminal illness, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Incest, Gore, Grief, Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cancer, and Blood

Moderate: Physical abuse, Infertility, Cursing, Sexual assault, Slavery, and Infidelity

Minor: Kidnapping, Gun violence, and Suicide

emilymhb's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

Wow, wow, wow. I am not normally a nonfiction gal but this book blew me away. I am so thankful that I get to live in a world where HeLa cells were discovered, despite the personal cost her family incurred. This book was beautiful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Child abuse, Child death, Medical content, Physical abuse, Cancer, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Alcoholism, and Murder

kk_gotit_goinon's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative sad medium-paced

5.0

This book is a must read for anyone who wants to go into science or medicine. The wrongs can't be undone but by bringing it to light we can create better scientists, doctors, and people in general. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Classism, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Racism

eegrasse's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Terminal illness, Classism, Domestic abuse, Incest, Racism, Racial slurs, Child abuse, Child death, Death of parent, Medical content, Physical abuse, Cancer, Forced institutionalization, Infidelity, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Suicide

moniipeters's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Medical content, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, Sexual harassment, Domestic abuse, Incest, Racism, Violence, Abandonment, Ableism, Alcoholism, Blood, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Infidelity, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexual violence, Cursing, Drug abuse, Alcohol, Child abuse, and Child death

jbro12's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Physical abuse, Death, Racism, Medical trauma, Medical content, Forced institutionalization, and Child abuse

kirstenpod_'s review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Racism, Death, Cancer, Forced institutionalization, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Terminal illness, and Child abuse

Minor: Incest, Physical abuse, Slavery, Drug abuse, Mental illness, and Murder

martha_is_reading's review against another edition

I was enjoying the book and found the history of the HeLa cells fascinating; while the treatment of Henrietta Lacks and her family was sad to listen to. I would have carried on but about a quarter of the way through there were a lot of graphic descriptions of the physical and sexual violence that Henrietta’s children were subjected to after her death and I just found it too much 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Death, Medical content, Cancer, Medical trauma, Sexual harassment, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, and Terminal illness