Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

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

121 reviews

leweylibrary's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

5.0

This was a reread because IDK this book has just been on my mind a lot lately? Idk why not it was just as good as I remember. I still can't believe--but also very much can believe--the absolute HELL  that these women went through all in the name of capitalism and all while the people who made them suffer so much did their damnedest to obfuscate and deny everything about it. And how the law was just absolutely against them for so much of the way just because this was a novel type of poisoning and it happened to women. The research on this book is so thorough, but the author also does a great job of letting you get to know these women, the lives they led, and their personalities. It makes it all that much more real and gutting to read their stories. Fuck capitalism. That's all.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Miscarriage and Pregnancy

sehenry20's review

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Misogyny, and Miscarriage

kking6's review

dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

It does get a bit difficult to keep track of all of the people mentioned in the book. I think reading the book a second time would help me to solidify each person’s individual story. 

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Content Warnings

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

0tter_a's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Infertility

csondra's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

4.75

Great read. Very emotional because of the severe suffering and injustice these women faced. But super important for their story to be told and remembered. Highly recommend 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma

Moderate: Chronic illness

aestass's review

dark informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

This is a comprehensive, historical tale that follows the radium girls of New Jersey and Ohio with detail. However, due to the length of the narrative and difficulty differentiating between the different painters, as well as the various court cases, it's hard to really connect with the victims.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Blood, Chronic illness, Death, Medical trauma, Cancer, Medical content, and Terminal illness

punk_flower_child's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Grief, Cancer, Medical trauma, and Terminal illness

Moderate: War, Pregnancy, and Miscarriage

Minor: Suicide, Domestic abuse, Abortion, and Suicidal thoughts

megnut's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Cancer, Sexism, Infertility, and Miscarriage

will_meringue's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring

5.0

For all the dial-painters
And those who loved them

Before reading, I knew only the most basic things about the dial-painters: they glowed; they died. This book did what narrative non-fiction does best, opening up a topic I'd not really considered and making it speak across the past, present and future. It's a harrowing read - the descriptions of their deaths are brutally visceral, and I cried multiple times - but always clear-eyed, informative, emotional and empathetic. The cruelty shown by URSC, Radium Dial and other forces in the industry would be unthinkable if it wasn't all too common under capitalism.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, Death, Body horror, Miscarriage, Blood, Cancer, Murder, and Medical trauma

nrogers_1030's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring sad tense slow-paced

5.0

It's appalling what happened to these poor women. I felt the book could have been shorter & the narration a bit less monotone, but I still enjoyed the book. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Ableism, Infertility, Pregnancy, and Miscarriage

Minor: Abortion and Domestic abuse

Some of the pictures in the book are a bit gruesome.