Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

3 reviews

solenodon's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Sexism, Racial slurs, Transphobia, Child abuse, Slavery, Police brutality, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Colonisation, Grief, and Alcohol

Minor: Chronic illness, Antisemitism, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Classism, Colonisation, Sexism, Misogyny, and Transphobia

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Car accident, Antisemitism, Kidnapping, Sexual violence, Police brutality, Death, Murder, Medical content, Medical trauma, Ableism, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Chronic illness, Panic attacks/disorders, War, Child death, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Racial slurs, Cancer, and Suicide

Colorism. Eugenics, mentions of forced sterilization. Climate change. Rape and assault are discussed and frankly but not graphically described; a chapter centered around rape includes a content warning in the preface and is able to be skipped.

sarah984's review against another edition

challenging reflective medium-paced

4.0

The early chapters of this book lay out the author’s interest in physics with a palpable enthusiasm, while the later chapters discuss the ways that the dominant culture manifests in academia and the physics "community" that work to dim that enthusiasm. I hadn't really considered the ways that science as a discipline and idea are socially constructed so there's lots to think about.

(I did dock a star because I found the chapter on gender a bit reductive - I hate the narrative that nonbinary people exist because they are the only ones who object to traditional gender roles and this chapter skirts pretty close to that. Overall though a great read.)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Slavery, Ableism, Antisemitism, Colonisation, Medical content, Racial slurs, Classism, Misogyny, Police brutality, Racism, Rape, and Transphobia

Minor: Chronic illness, Cancer, Child abuse, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts