Reviews tagging 'Racism'

海拉細胞的不死傳奇 by Rebecca Skloot

125 reviews

acaparro's review against another edition

hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Violence and Sexual assault

ejthephoenix's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I LOVE THIS BOOK SO MUCH!!! I’m so happy that Henrietta and her family have finally gotten some recognition after all this time and get to tell their story. I’m also really glad that this book is being included in my class at our school. I would definitely recommend reading this book no matter what you like to read! :) Non-fiction, fiction, science, theories, biographies, realistic fiction, and even non realistic fiction lovers will love this book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Child abuse, Death of parent, and Mental illness

Moderate: Drug use, Incest, Murder, Pregnancy, Slavery, Racism, Rape, Cursing, and Sexual assault

Minor: Suicide, Vomit, Outing, and Blood

alliejuve's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Racism, Incest, Medical content, and Misogyny

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Death, and Sexual violence

Minor: Slavery

hanlov's review against another edition

emotional informative medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Classism, Cancer, Death, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Racism

cecesweetie's review against another edition

challenging informative sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Racism, Ableism, Racial slurs, Child abuse, and Sexual assault

emblazedwords's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This book was so emotional and so well done. It was more than just a book on these immortal cells and how they were wrongly taken: it was also a history of the Lacks family themselves. Skloot gave us an intimate history on Henrietta as well as family, how her children were impacted by her death, and how they came to understand her legacy. 

I didn't realize until reading this book how new the concept of medical consent is. I also got more background history on Black people and their relationship with medicine, how it's hurt them and made them distrustful.

Definitely worth the hype!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma and Medical content

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Forced institutionalization

angela_iseli's review against another edition

emotional informative sad slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Medical content, Death, Medical trauma, Racism, and Death of parent

danileah07's review against another edition

informative slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Grief and Racism

Minor: Incest and Medical content

cj13's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racial slurs, Racism, Medical content, Grief, Child abuse, Sexual harassment, Physical abuse, Child death, Cancer, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, Forced institutionalization, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Alcohol and Alcoholism

Minor: Suicide

swe3tpeach's review against another edition

emotional informative medium-paced

If it's not already, this book should be required reading for all medical ethics classes in universities. Exposing new generations of doctors to the racial injustices within their field's history is essential to preventing the same mistakes from continuing in the future. The whole book was easy to read - perks of having a reporter for an author - reading like a novel sometimes when learning about the Lacks family history. Going in, I had no idea HeLa cells existed, let alone the impact they had on scientific discovery over the past century. The story was so compelling I became more interested as I continued to read. (That's when you know a nonfiction book did it right.) I probably won't go looking for more medical nonfiction books, but this one will stick with me for a long time. An amazing read! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism