Reviews tagging 'Transphobia'

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

3 reviews

mscalls's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Chronic illness, Medical content, Cancer, Body shaming, Misogyny, Medical trauma, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Transphobia

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

rayne_1906's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

2.25

4 hours 12 minutes - This book focuses on a very relevant and important issue, but unfortunately is very boring to read. The author has certainly done her research on the topic, but it is presented in a way which is repetitive and dull most of the time. Dusenbery does cover a lot of ground on sexism in medicine, and how this might intersect with other things such as race, class, transphobia, etc., but many parts of this book could have been cut without any impact on the message the book is trying to convey. Definitely makes me want to read more into the subject though.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Dementia, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infertility, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Racism, Sexism, Terminal illness, Vomit, and Transphobia