Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee

5 reviews

lauren625's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Medical content

Moderate: Death and Cancer

Minor: Racism, Genocide, and Ableism

onlyonebookshelf's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Genocide, Homophobia, and Death

tinnuben's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Chronic illness, Ableism, Antisemitism, Death, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Cancer, Medical content, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Genocide, and Terminal illness

rayvelladriano's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Death and Medical content

katherineclimber's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.5

I've also read <i>The Emperor of All Maladies</i> by Siddartha Mukherjee, and I think I enjoyed this one more and just got more out of it in general (although they are both 3 stars, this one is a higher 3 stars) and I think that's because I had some background going into this book having already take biology. The beginning of this book really had me hooked and it brought up so many ideas that I had never even thought about before. However, when I got about 2/3 of the way through I started to loose steam and I was craving a fiction novel, but I pushed through and I'm glad I did because I learned so much from this book. It was really insightful, especially with the personal experiences and anecdotes that Mukherjee added in, I think those really made the book more impactful and meaningful. Overall, this book just really made me think about how har we've come in understanding genetics, but also how much we have yet to learn.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Chronic illness, Medical content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Cancer and Death

Minor: Blood, Child death, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Homophobia, and Transphobia