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beau_b_reading's review against another edition
4.0
Now this is very much an introduction, and reading this after a few uni immunology courses, I didn't learn a whole lot of extra details (beside the occasional fun fact). But it did very much put everything in perspective perfectly, it made me grasp familiar concepts with more certainty and in a way that I could now explain it to others too.
As an aspiring science communicator, this is a great experience and inspiration :)
Moderate: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Violence, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Minor: Addiction, Animal death, Drug use, Suicide, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Murder, Pregnancy, and War
heather667's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, and Pandemic/Epidemic
bones_jackson's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, and Pandemic/Epidemic
condor's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Chronic illness
readerette's review against another edition
4.0
I found the grammatical choices distracting at times. It read very conversationally, which was nice given the dense material, but there were plenty of sentences with atypical structures for written material. It felt more stream-of-consciousness to me, but I could have used a little more predictable structure so that the concepts could really be the focus rather than how the words were written.
I also question some of the guidance provided. For instance in the chapter about cancer,
Moderate: Cancer, Chronic illness, Terminal illness, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Violence
your_true_shelf's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Cancer and Chronic illness
skylarkindareads's review against another edition
5.0
Minor: Cancer, Chronic illness, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail