Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Pain Gap: How Sexism and Racism in Healthcare Kill Women by Anushay Hossain

2 reviews

sisakat's review

informative sad medium-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage, Pandemic/Epidemic, Child death, Sexism, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Blood, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Sexual violence, Slavery, Racism, Medical content, Abortion, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Islamophobia, Misogyny, Police brutality, Pregnancy, and Rape

The subject matter of the entire book is quite heavy reading. The book mostly doesn't go too graphic description on most of these, but it does cover a lot of stories involving women facing sexism and/or racism in a medical context (especially maternal/child birth situations), and the outcomes related to that. There is significant discussions of hospitals, pain, injuries, illness, and death, with both broad statistics and individuals' personal stories. There's at least a few instances it describes sexual assault, but it's written in a more informational tone, and not extended detail. There's some discussion of historical (long ago to near -present) medical experimentation. It also discusses the events of the pandemic and George Floyd protests in relating them to women's health.

misssleepless's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Rape, Blood, Child death, Racism, Gun violence, Medical content, Abortion, Death, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual violence, and Xenophobia