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slicciardi's review
5.0
Essential reading. Highly recommend for anyone interested in learning about the stark racial inequities in healthcare
msabin's review
assignment for class, ran out of time to read it before class discussion
amandalala's review
challenging
reflective
medium-paced
3.75
I got a lot out of this book and it helped me examine the health care industry and issues face black Americans differently than I had before.
torturedreadersdept's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
sad
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Infertility, Pandemic/Epidemic, Sexism, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Murder, Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Violence, Classism, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Bullying, Cultural appropriation, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Alcoholism, Body horror, Cancer, and Racism
Minor: Racial slurs, Slavery, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Grief, Forced institutionalization, and Xenophobia
danicapage's review against another edition
informative
4.0
Very informative and intriguing. I enjoyed the writing style and the depth of the issues the author covered. I've read a few books on medical racism, and I found this to be one of the more approachable and digestible. It covers a lot of topics succinctly, so more a mile wide and a few inches deep coverage here. The author definitely has a perspective she is trying to put forth, but I thought it was well supported. I love books that use stories and data to drive home their points, and I thought this one did both. I cannot speak more broadly to how experts have viewed this and can only speak to how a layperson perceived it.