Reviews tagging 'Infertility'

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore

84 reviews

erica_reads_things's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring sad slow-paced

4.75

Incredibly well written non-fiction. It felt like I was listening to a narrative story, which was very engaging. Such care and beauty was taken to tell the stories of these women and what they went through. I loved being able to learn about them personally in addition to the facts of the series of events leading up to and during the court cases against the dial companies. Very very well done and important to know about America's history. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Infertility, and Gaslighting

jamsca21's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

This was both the first audiobook and non-fiction book I had read and in a long time respectively. I loved this book. The content was interesting. Morbid history has been a fascination of mine so I enjoyed this. But also above all the author made sure to focus on the people. The young girls who were youthful and had their whole lives stripped from them due to the greed of corporate companies.  It followed the stories of the girls intimately so much so I think there were times the audiobook reader sounded like they were holding back tears. You followed these girls barely teenagers into employment

then watch in horror as they are lied to by the system saying that they were in a safe healthy environment when their body clearly were saying otherwise. You watch as scientist and doctors are either lying or helpless to help. Then you watch as they fall sicker and sicker so much so people put it together and its obvious but the companies lie and cheat and do terrible things to prevent justce and these poor lower class women go to court.. Anyway it's a lot to go into. and you wanna read this but I will say one thing.  JAWBONES FALLING OUT OF MOUTHS!!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Infertility, Miscarriage, Sexism, Terminal illness, Torture, Medical content, Medical trauma, War, and Classism

aech's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Infertility, Miscarriage, Blood, Grief, and Classism

oh_no's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

absolutely awful content, wonderful book! honestly, if this wasn't non-fiction I'd classify it as a horror! I went through so many emotions while reading : shock, sadness, indignation, anger and sorrow for all those poor girls. my only complaint is that the story is at times hard to follow, sometimes the character have extremely similar, if not identical names. this can't be helped though, as this follows the story of real people. 

would recommend to those who have the stomach for it, regardless of whether they usually read non-fiction (I personally, do not!)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Grief

Moderate: Infertility, Mental illness, and Miscarriage

Minor: Abortion and War

badger_ti_robespierre's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Should be required reading 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Infertility, Miscarriage, Sexism, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

lovetlr's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Really enjoyed the human element of the radium girls

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Sexism, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Child death, Infertility, Miscarriage, and Death of parent

bmpicc's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring sad medium-paced

4.5

Do not read if you have dental anxiety! I remember people talking about radium and the shining women. I don't remember anyone discussing their teeth, jaws, shattering bones, and unnecessarily early deaths. This was an incredible story.

Like Moore's book 'The Woman They Could Not Silence', I appreciate learning at the end the laws added to the books, the why behind her decision to write the book, etc. I'll be following this up with the graphic novel.

"You fight and you fall and you get up and fight some more. But there will always come a day when you cannot fight another minute more.” 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Cancer, Infertility, and Miscarriage

smcaput2's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Miscarriage

Minor: Infertility and Grief

emadisonc's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

You fight and you fall and you get up and fight some more. But there will always come a day when you cannot fight another minute more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Infertility, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, and Pregnancy

Minor: Domestic abuse, Abortion, and War

rachelhilary's review

emotional informative sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Sexism, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Minor: Infertility, Miscarriage, Grief, Death of parent, and Pregnancy