Reviews tagging 'Miscarriage'

The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetuated in the Name of Science by Sam Kean

6 reviews

fiona_gs's review against another edition

dark informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

An interesting stroll down the more medial and natural science bad science. Well presented but felt listening to the audio book narrator was good but given the author does a podcast but didn't read his own book just got to me abit. Though I do love this narrator too and have head him on a number of books. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Gore, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Physical abuse, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, and Pedophilia

boop123's review

dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Rape, Medical trauma, Murder, Animal cruelty, Slavery, Violence, Suicide, Sexual assault, Death, Body horror, Racism, and Gore

Moderate: Pedophilia, Transphobia, War, and Antisemitism

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Adult/minor relationship, and Miscarriage

silver_valkyrie_reads's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Classism, Medical trauma, Child abuse, Animal cruelty, and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Grief, and Torture

Minor: Abortion, Pedophilia, and Miscarriage

kbergsten's review

challenging dark informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Homophobia, Gaslighting, Gore, Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Torture, Transphobia, Ableism, Abortion, Animal death, Antisemitism, Child abuse, Classism, Colonisation, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Self harm, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Violence, Physical abuse, and Rape

_dasbrot's review

dark informative fast-paced

2.0

for the most part, this book was alright. it had some interesting chapters — especially the one about the guy who set Russian biology back 50 years, and the Appendix. 
but...the way its written makes some chapters (e.x. the one about Edison and Tesla) very hard to get through because you can't tell whether it was written with actual bias or if that was just the tone, something i found incredibly frustrating. 
he used outdated and racist terms about indigenous people to "stay true to the time" the stories were in, which i felt was unnecessary. 
also the chapter that talked about sex and gender did not mention nonbinary people and used he/she instead of they, so while it handled it okay overall, it was lacking for a book that came out so recently. 
there was also a use of "schizoid" and "OCD" as adjectives to call something "crazy", etc. which is was incredibly disappointing and ableist. 

overall, i don't think i would reccomend it to anyone, but i didn't have a completely bad time reading it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Racial slurs, Medical content, and Mental illness

Moderate: Torture, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Miscarriage and Mental illness

use of ableist and racist terminology where it was unneeded

akazzy8's review

challenging dark funny informative mysterious medium-paced

4.75

This book was excellent! I was looking for a good spooky season book, and this was really the perfect option for me. It has notes of creepiness and dark themes, but isn't a murder mystery which is a genre I can't stand and really dominates the spooky book aisles. It is extra creepy as it talks about real happenings, and like any history book as a way to educate and make adjustments for a more equitable future.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Xenophobia, War, Violence, Transphobia, Torture, Slavery, Racism, Murder, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Gore, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Death, Colonisation, Antisemitism, Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Alcohol

While there are many content warnings, I would mention they are stated in more of a detached academic fashion. While there are horrible portions, it is not always written like a story, so readers detachment from some of these acts make this book less "graphic". This certainly is not to say that these warnings aren't still there!