Reviews tagging 'Child death'

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee

7 reviews

rhubarbpi3's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.75

This was such a good book! So informative, tho I felt it dragged a tad in the final quarter and I wish it had focused a bit more on the historical part because I found that fascinating. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Child death, Gore, Death, Drug use, and Terminal illness

angievansprang's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

I’m not usually too into nonfiction, but apparently as a science/medicine nerd, this worked perfect for me. Mukherjee has a way of weaving a vivid timeline of cancer through many smaller, narrative stories that leave you caring for each “character”, though most of them were assuredly real people. I loved how this book explored the political & legal movements that were sidelining the scientific battle against cancer. A lot of these occurrences were not things I was previously aware of or taught in school. A very interesting read, especially if you are a science and/or medicine nerd like me!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Terminal illness, Cancer, and Death

Moderate: Blood

vmjanek's review

challenging informative slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Child death, and Cancer

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Cancer, Terminal illness, Death, Medical content, Child death, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Drug use, Vomit, Animal cruelty, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, and Addiction

Minor: Sexism, Pregnancy, Colonisation, Xenophobia, Misogyny, Homophobia, Death of parent, Excrement, Racism, Suicide attempt, Infertility, Abortion, and Classism

Eugenics mentioned in passing.

melv32's review against another edition

informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Medical content, Cancer, and Terminal illness

peckd's review

emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Vomit

nikkiacat's review

emotional hopeful informative sad slow-paced

4.25

This book manages to make me sad and give me hope for the future at the same time. It really shows me why people study cancer and get so committed to the science of it; cancer is both a devastating, horrifying disease but also an incredibly fascinating subject on the cellular level. I love that the author is a doctor himself and not only shows us the science and men and women in the laboratory but humanizes the topic as well and shows us the people hit hardest by cancer: the victims and their families. It started off a little slow but once you get used to the scientific discussions it gets very interesting. A lot of names of scientists and doctors to try to remember, but worth it. An excellent read.

(The trigger warnings about animals are due to the many descriptions of animal testing.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Medical content, Terminal illness, Cancer, Animal death, and Animal cruelty