Reddit mentions: The best forensic medicine books

A book that might interest you and him is Herbert Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man. Marcuse was a Marxist thinker, and he wrote that book as a criticism of what the individual has become in advanced industrial society. He is a clear and entertaining writer, and he has a lot of examples to support his ideas.

A much harder book from a non-Marxist perspective is Stanley Cavell's The Claim of Reason. Cavell is a tricky writer--he's hard to read quickly, and he doesn't have totally organized arguments. Nonetheless, he talks a lot about what it means to be human and what it means to deny one's own or another's humanity. I'd only recommend this book if your partner knows something about philosophy already.

Then there is a thinker like Emmanuel Levinas, who writes about how it is to experience other people. He's also a bit tough to read, but he has a fascinating and highly influential idea of our ethical responsibility to other people. His classic work is Totality and Infinity.

Existentialism talks a great deal about what it is to be human. The thinker Jean-Paul Sartre wrote that there is no human nature, only a human condition. His big book is Being and Nothingness.

The German thinker Hannah Arendt might just be the closest fit to your partner's interest. She wrote a book called The Human Condition that is all about what it means to act.

One last suggestion: it's not quite philosophy per se, but if your partner is interested in technology and media and the effects it has on people, then Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man might be a good gift. McLuhan is not a hard writer, and he has short chapters. He's a bit of a funny writer though, not only because he makes jokes but because he sometimes makes claims without even an attempt to back them up. However, the book is a blast for someone who is interested in how, say, the electric lightbulb changed human life. Of the books I've mentioned here, it's probably the easiest read.

Hope those suggestions help. By the way, if you could give a sense of your partner's education level it would help. As I said, the Cavell book is probably best for someone who has studied philosophy in depth already. On the other hand, I think a beginner could get into McLuhan and work through Marcuse.

They teach it at American universities right now. They were scientific terms first, and they won't stop being used because people have coopted them into slurs.

I work with people who have disabilities, and there are still national organizations with "mental retardation" in their names. A scientific term is a scientific term.

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Feel free to see chapter 7 of Introduction to Forensic Anthropology (2010), which is entirely about attribution of ancestry. Figure 7.1 shows "Skulls of the three main ancestral groups: (a) White; (b) Asian; (c) Black." Table 7.2 lists the 16 "Anthroposcopic Characteristics of the Skull of the Three Main Ancestral Groups in the United States." On the postcranial skeletion, it explains that "Generally, Blacks are characterized by straight femoral shafts. However, with the exception of some Native Americans from South America, all Asians and Whites are characterized by femora that exhibit anterior curvature. (Stewart, 1962)"

There is plenty more information there for you. It is an entire chapters of the book, after all. Would you like to argue about chapter 8, "Attribution of Sex," as well?

Due to aggressive immunization campaigns, children began to receive the diptheria shot in Austria. Within a year, a new mental disorder unknown to even the most knowledgeable child psychologists in the country began to appear.

The book is second in a proposed thematic trilogy of infection and disease that started with The Moth in the Iron Lung.

There is an active petition to remove the book from Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Moth-Iron-Lung-Biography-Polio/dp/1717583679

This is the book I use. It is very digestible, quite a fun read and touches on topics like human decomposition in different environments, how Forensic Anthros actually do their job, the effects of trauma on bones in injuries at time of death, and skeletal differences in age, height, ancestry and sex. Amazon

From the same Forensic Pathology of Trauma textbook:

>Falling on a deformable surface (e.g., water, snow) lessens the degree of injury by
increasing the impact duration; however, for any given surface, a spectrum of injuries
occurs. Survivors of bridge jumps from about 75 m (250 ft) into water have been seen. High-altitude falls (up to 7000 m or 23,000 ft) into snow with survival have been recorded.

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Is it maybe the Color Atlas of Sexual Assault? https://www.amazon.com/Color-Atlas-Sexual-Assault-1e/dp/0815138423