Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

33 reviews

yetilibrary's review

challenging dark emotional funny informative sad slow-paced

2.5

I needed to read a book on a subject I knew nothing about. Cue Mary Roach's book about cadavers! The good: I did learn a lot about cadavers, and about science done with cadavers. The bad: sometimes there was an ick factor, and about half the time, the "ick" factor was an ethical one, rather than a body-horror one. The "more bad": there are a lot more animals in here than I was expecting, and a lot of those animals are ... not cadavers. Honestly, I wish I had picked a different book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Medical trauma, and Gore

Moderate: Death and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Murder

sierrakilocharlie's review

dark funny informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Cannibalism and Car accident

jennay's review against another edition

challenging dark funny informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Medical content, Murder, and Medical trauma

Minor: Excrement, Blood, Cannibalism, and Torture

besidemyshelf's review against another edition

funny informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death, Violence, Medical trauma, and Medical content

emmettdakool's review against another edition

dark funny informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Medical content, Murder, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Cannibalism, and Blood

jonie_rich's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring slow-paced

4.75

I really loved this book, but I had to skip over the parts about the dog surgery (that is putting it sooooooo mildly). I recommend it, and I think it educates a very overlooked part of our lives as humans. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Cannibalism, Child death, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Chronic illness, Child abuse, Suicide, Medical content, Body horror, Blood, Gore, Animal death, Murder, Medical trauma, Torture, Car accident, Animal cruelty, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Excrement

gellyy's review against another edition

challenging dark funny informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Death

haunted_klaus's review against another edition

funny informative reflective medium-paced

2.0

The content was great, but the tone was all wrong. The puns, one liners, and double entendres all felt out of place and jarring in this context. It felt like sitting at funeral next to someone who couldn’t stop whispering jokes and snickering under their breath to lighten the mood. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Excrement, Medical trauma, and Animal death

a_sleepy_berry's review

challenging mysterious slow-paced

2.0

The science is really interesting but super traumatizing at the same time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Gore, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Car accident

bronzemist's review

dark informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Death, and Medical content

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Gore, Child death, Excrement, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, and Vomit