Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

89 reviews

tieflingmom's review against another edition

dark informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Hate crime, Incest, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Medical trauma

pamnc's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Medical content

Moderate: Incest

savannahsshelf's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad medium-paced

4.75

Initial read: June-July 2019 4.5⭐️
Reread January 2024 4.75-5⭐️

If you’re in science or medicine this is required reading. If you do research on people or human cells and haven’t read this… do that right now! 

Every single person reading this review had their life changed by Henrietta Lacks’ cells so you might as well read the book about her and them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

Moderate: Death, Sexual assault, and Murder

challengermilo's review against another edition

dark hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.0

Had to read it for school so it was harder to enjoy, I'm sure I would've liked it more if I read it on my own time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Death of parent

lynxpardinus's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Racism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, and Classism

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Genocide, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicide, Antisemitism, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Deadnaming and War

nataleaf's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Incest, Pedophilia, and Sexual assault

parasolcrafter's review against another edition

emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

5.0

this book....i really dont know what i can say about it. i learned SO MUCH about something i had never even head of before picking it up, and it was both fascinating and heartbreaking to read about all of it. i wish all the best for hentrietta lacks family and hope that her and those of her family who have passed are resting easily <3

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Incest, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Terminal illness, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

bearikatherika's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Violence, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Drug abuse, Incest, and Infidelity

marioncromb's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

Easy to read, very informative. Empathetic and meticulously researched. Tells the story of Lacks' family alternating with the story of her cells. Maybe a little long with unneccessary detail. Quite US centric - would have been nice to know about laws surrounding tissues etc worldwide for comparison.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Medical content, and Death of parent

Moderate: Death, Racism, Grief, Medical trauma, and Classism

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Murder, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment

mallorypen's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

I always worry that nonfiction books will be dry and boring, but I am delighted to be wrong with this - deeply disturbing in parts, heart wrenching in others, but with no lack of joy, this story was told in a delightfully human way. Rebecca Skloot took a TON of heavy and dense information and laid it out in an easy-to-follow way.

It surprised me that there aren’t any laws in the use of human cells yet; the ramifications of the scientific uses (and financial gains) were illustrated so thoroughly here that it feels ludicrous to not have addressed it by 2009. It’s my homework now to see if anything has changed now by 2023.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Mental illness, Racism, Sexual assault, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Sexual harassment