Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink

5 reviews

mischiefmimi's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful informative sad tense slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical trauma, Racism, Police brutality, Medical content, Death of parent, Grief, Chronic illness, Dementia, Terminal illness, Animal death, Addiction, Cancer, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Injury/Injury detail

heatherilene's review

challenging dark emotional informative slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Animal death, Cancer, Ableism, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Medical trauma, Chronic illness, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Racism, and Terminal illness

kelpreads's review against another edition

challenging dark informative slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fatphobia, Ableism, and Racism

sorayah11's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

3.0

Not a perfect book and could be dry, but gave me lots of information on an event I hadn't heard about before. I'm hoping to start nursing school in March and this book made me think a lot about someone's life, the field of medicine, and the ways the two can mix. I've mostly seen medicine favorably and I appreciated this bringing up arguments on the other side of that.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Medical trauma, Racial slurs, Racism, Death, Animal death, and Medical content

Minor: Cancer, Terminal illness, Gun violence, Chronic illness, and War

beckbrl's review against another edition

informative sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Racism, Medical content, and Medical trauma