Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

7 reviews

random19379's review against another edition

dark funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Death, Gore, Body horror, and Vomit

Moderate: Racism and Classism

bardspeak's review

challenging informative medium-paced

3.5

It got a little gross for me halfway through. Also I find some of the actions of past humans morally awful. But it was a good informative book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Gore

Moderate: Violence, Cannibalism, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Death, and Excrement

Minor: Racism

It's a lot but often in a lighthearted or at least neutral/informative way.

kearydeary's review

informative fast-paced

2.0

I really liked the first 3/4th of the book, but it gets really racist about China in chapter 10. like. bad enough that I now don’t really think I can recommend this to anyone…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Racism, Body horror, Blood, Xenophobia, Medical trauma, Medical content, Gore, Cannibalism, Excrement, and Abortion

applesaucecreachur's review against another edition

dark funny informative slow-paced

3.0

I appreciate this book for what it is: A professional journalist writing a history of corpses, while herself being an amateur on the subject. While much of the contemporary content is now out of date, I still walk away from the book with a few key takeaways.

1. Our corpses are not "us". In life, they were our vessels. Now, they are shells.
2. That said, as a future medical care provider and future surviving loved one, the remains of those departed are worthy of respect and care.
3. There's been a lot of thought and disagreement put into how we ought to treat corpses. Do we bury them? Burn them? Dissolve them? Compost? Scatter? Stick in an anatomy lab? Put on display? Pulverize in controlled car crash scenarios? Eat????
4. While sometimes self-aware, this book was a bit orientalizing and generally racist. (The bit about the Spanish American War and the indigenous soldiers? Come on now.)

This book was moderately informative and mildly entertaining. Now I gotta go figure out what to do with my husk when I'm done with it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Animal death, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Racism, Ableism, and Gun violence

Minor: Abortion

solenodon's review against another edition

dark funny informative medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Gore, Body horror, Death, Animal death, and Medical content

Moderate: Excrement, Cannibalism, Racism, and Murder

Minor: Death of parent

bxtskr's review

dark funny informative

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cannibalism, Pregnancy, Child death, Death, Body horror, Blood, Car accident, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Rape, and Suicide attempt

irl_bookworms's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

3.0

Entertaining, but definitely reads its age. Heavy sprinkles of misogny and racism, be warned.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Racism and Misogyny