Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore

157 reviews

tklear's review against another edition

informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

4.75

Great compilation of all the research executed in a tale that unfolds our sketchy capitalistic past. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Medical content, Death, Death of parent, Miscarriage, Suicide, Murder, Infertility, Medical trauma, Cancer, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Physical abuse

arayo's review

emotional informative inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, and Body horror

milesss's review

dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Multiple times while reading I was moved to tears. An incredible account I could hardly put down. Engaging and emotional with attention to detail and honesty.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Terminal illness, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, and Cancer

Moderate: Grief, Medical content, Eating disorder, Infertility, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Miscarriage

Minor: Abortion, War, and Suicidal thoughts

camiclarkbooks's review against another edition

dark informative slow-paced

4.0

This was probably not the book to read while dealing with unexplained, debilitating knee pain because it did have me wondering if I’d been exposed to copious amounts of radium (I was not). 

“The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women” by Kate Moore was the thoroughly well researched story of the women who worked as watch dial painters during the late-1910s and 1920s. It was a glamorous, well-paying job. But little did the women know there was a terrible price to pay for working with paint made from luminous radium…

Moore’s book focuses on the women, giving them a voice for the first time in years. She shares with the reader the complete stories of the women across the United States who worked as dial painters, from the charmed lives they led while employed by the watch manufacturing companies to the horrible turn their health took just years later. Moore doesn’t shy away from the bleakest parts of their stories, or from the horrors of how their bodies literally began to fall apart. 

The book was a fascinating look into a part of women’s labour history that I didn’t know much anything about. It was told in a way that blended firsthand accounts and interviews with information gleaned from newspapers and internal reports. The combination resulted in a knowledgeable story that humanized the women rather than just regulating them to be a forgotten part of history. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Body horror, Chronic illness, Blood, Medical trauma, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death and Gaslighting

danavos's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Miscarriage

archcon's review against another edition

adventurous challenging informative slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Chronic illness, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Miscarriage, Death, Cancer, and Infertility

viccoll's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Medical content, Medical trauma, Terminal illness, Death, Gaslighting, Chronic illness, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Abortion, Infertility, Grief, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Miscarriage, and Domestic abuse

mondovertigo's review against another edition

dark informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Gaslighting, Death, Blood, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, Medical trauma, Medical content, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Infertility, Grief, Gore, and Cancer

Moderate: War

Minor: Abortion

miaaa_lenaaa's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

This is important
I didnt like a lot of the writing but i think a lot more people need to know about this and i respect her for writing it
Its often infuriating and hard to read and so fucking sad but this narrative needs to be told. The way that women and workers are constantly and consistently ignored for company gain does make you start to lose all hope in humanity thought.
That the worst possible scenario was barely listened to (and arguably not listened to) leaves little room for hope

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Death, Medical content, Miscarriage, Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Murder, Terminal illness, Gaslighting, Medical trauma, and Grief

mightymegan25's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Miscarriage, and Terminal illness