Reviews tagging 'Ableism'

Doing Harm: The Truth about How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick by Maya Dusenbery

3 reviews

beetree's review

challenging informative sad slow-paced

3.5

This is a really important book but I found it dry and repetitive, despite being passionate about this topic. It’s structure and formatting (very long chapters sometimes) didn’t work for me and because of the repetition, I sometimes lost the point of the chapters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism and Gaslighting

Moderate: Classism, Chronic illness, Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Cancer, Medical content, Ableism, Colonisation, and Medical trauma

alexisgarcia's review

informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

this is definitely a hard book, especially for someone like me who has autoimmune conditions. but in that way, it was informative and validating. i would definitely recommend this but it’s good to take into account that this is a depressing read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Transphobia, Mental illness, Racism, Sexism, Suicide, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Medical content, Ableism, Death, Infertility, Gaslighting, Vomit, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Eating disorder, and Grief

arayo's review

informative sad

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Sexism, Misogyny, and Medical content

Moderate: Racism, Cancer, Infertility, Ableism, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Fatphobia, and Classism