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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
53 reviews
sophcart_'s review against another edition
Graphic: Blood and Medical content
spookily's review
5.0
Graphic: Cancer, Death, Gore, Infertility, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Grief, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Death of parent and Pregnancy
Minor: Child death and Domestic abuse
lindseyrenee's review
4.25
Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail
bontals's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Infertility, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Torture, Blood, Death of parent, and Gaslighting
songofthewolfy's review
Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, and Terminal illness
Moderate: Misogyny, Grief, and Gaslighting
Minor: Miscarriage and Blood
bad_bookworm_h's review
5.0
Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
Moderate: Gore, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting
Minor: Abortion
hellavaral's review
3.5
Graphic: Cancer, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail
corriejn's review against another edition
3.0
This written accounting of that story: ....oh, no.
I can only imagine that the driver of this book's popularity is readers who hadn't before encountered this historical event and were just eager to learn about it, rather than readers actually finding this to be competent, let alone skilled or compelling, writing about said history.
The writing is stilted, like a decent high school report listing off a sequence of poorly-connected chronological details found through research, with just the *very* most awkward incorporation of quotes from historical sources. Very occasionally, this is interspersed by a brief sentence or two of quite flowery and sentimental prose that the author seemed wanting to include. For the most part, though, it's a dry recounting of chronological tidbits, in very dear need of a competent and assertive editor.
There are also a number of issues with how the material is presented, ranging from astonishingly incompetent to downright creepy.
For instance, the author heavily focuses on descriptions of each girl's/woman's physical attractiveness (and not just in context for describing the later effects of their illnesses). E.g., at one point there is mention of how a doctor "examined her elegant body," apropos of nothing other than said creepy fixation on describing the conventional/physical attractiveness of the young women in question.
There are also a number of instances of use of troublingly ableist language (not as a part of historical quotes, but in the author's writings), such as (hidden as spoilers in case you don't wish to view them)
Regarding the astonishing incompetence, the author at one point stresses how very fraudulent it was for Dr. Frederick Flinn to not actually be an M.D.-- which may be a valid thing to point out, if he'd in fact represented himself as a medical doctor/allowed such confusion to continue-- but by stating "his degree was in philosophy. He was... a fraud of frauds." LOL... what? See the first part, it's valid to point out the misrepresentation, but a **PhD** is not a "degree in philosophy" π (It took me all of 10 seconds of googling to ascertain that he had a PhD in industrial hygiene-- he WAS indeed a Dr.! Is the author genuinely unaware that PhDs exist, and that to represent them as "a degree in philosophy!" is at least a wildly fraudulent??)
The author also at one point described a man as having an "Irish temper" πΆπ¬
(Brb, downgrading my initial rating, because after writing all that out, it is truly baffling to me how this book ever ended up published.)
It's really a bummer, since generally when someone writes a book on a historical situation (that is very worth being told) that is popularly and well received, it kind of shuts the door to others attempting to write books on the same topic. This is a topic, however, that deserves greatly more competent handling than Moore has given it here. What a shame.
Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Terminal illness, Blood, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Ableism, Infertility, Miscarriage, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy
Minor: Domestic abuse
litalia's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
Moderate: Cancer, Infertility, and Grief
Minor: Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Abortion, and Pregnancy
If you're one of the people with nightmares about all your teeth randomly falling out...maybe avoid this one.mosscliffs's review
5.0
Graphic: Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical trauma, and Gaslighting