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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women

Kate Moore

Start date: September 1, 2018

Finish date: September 30, 2018

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May 31, 2018 Martha rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: non-fiction, big-books-18, read-2018, read-women-18

The Radium Girls is the true story of the courageous women who fought for justice when their employers failed to protect them from the radium poisoning that ultimately cost many of them their lives.

I found this book absolutely riveting. History + Science is not my idea of a riveting book, but this was absolutely fascinating and full of drama. I had no idea that for many years, radium was considered to be some kind of 'wonder chemical' that would cure all kinds of ailments and the women were told ...more

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Nov 10, 2023 Lisa rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: popsugar-reading-challenge-2018, nonfiction-horror

Well, this book was just unbelievably horrible. I mean when it got to the point where the company sent in doctors and got positive results that their products were making the workers sick AND THEN FIRED ONE FOR BEING SICK years after they knew what was going on was beyond unscrupulous. It’s so hard to believe people existed that would do that.

Before (and after) there was hard evidence, the women’s suffering was ignored, minimized, and blamed on being hysterical. One woman walked into a doctor’s ...more

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