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A memoir of intoxication like no other, On Drugs explores Chris Fleming's experience of drug addiction, which begins while he is a student before escalating into a life-threatening compulsion. A philosopher by training, Fleming combines meticulous observation of his life with a keen sense of the absurdity of his actions. He describes the intricacies of drug use and acquisition, their impact on the intellect and emotions, and the chaos that emerges as his tightly managed existence unravels into arrests, hospitalisations and family breakdown. His account is accompanied by searching reflections on his childhood, during which he developed acute obsessive compulsive disorder and became fixated on martial arts, music-making and bodybuilding. In confronting the pathos and comedy of drug use, On Drugs also opens out into meditations on the self and its deceptions, on popular culture, religion and mental illness, and the tortuous path to recovery

This article examines the work of the Australian performance artist, Stelarc, in terms of philosophies of mind and body. It argues that Stelarc's work can profitably be seen as a kind of performative `research' into the body; Stelarc's actions take the form of a hypothetical or speculative ontology which does not operate in order to represent possibility but to enact possibilities in real time and space. His work is compared with and shown to have some resonances with recent cybernetic and systems theories of cognition, in which cognition is figured as a form of `enaction'. This being so, Stelarc's performances suggest an exemplary mode in which `hypotheses' about alternative corporeal existences may be creatively entertained.

The complexity of measuring indigenous welbeing / Matthew Manning and Christopher Fleming -- Understanding wellbeing / Matthew Manning and Christopher Fleming -- Health and physical wellbeing of the Sámi people / Per Axelsson and Christina Storm Mienna -- Chronic disease among Native North Americans / Leslie Redmond and Joel Gittelsohn -- Changing concepts of wellness among the Swahili of Lamu Town, Kenya / Rebecca Gearhart Mafazy and Munib Said Mafazy -- Physical wellbeing of native Hawaiians, the indigenous people of Hawai'i / Joseph Keawe¿aimoku Kaholokula, Andrea H. Hermosura and Mapuana C.K. Antonio -- Traditional healing and indigenous wellbeing in Aotearoa, New Zealand / Annabel Ahuriri-Driscoll and Amohia Boulton -- Physical wellbeing of Maori / Denise Wilson, Amohia Boulton and Isaac Warbrick -- Wellbeing in Swedish indigenous Sami children and young-people : looking back and looking forward / Susanne Garvis and Lotta Omma -- Well-being considerations among selected North American Indian populations : relationships, spirits, and connections / Lyle J. Noisy Hawk and Joseph Trimble -- Socio-economic wellbeing of the Basarwa people of Botswana : a forgotten generation / Keitseope Nthomang and Pelotshweu Moepeng -- The comparative wellbeing of the New Zealand Maori and indigenous Australian populations since 2000 / Matthew Gray and Boyd Hunter -- Economic wellbeing of Canada's indigenous people / Belayet Hossain and Laura Lamb -- El "buen vivir" : notions of wellbeing among indigenous peoples of South America / Ana Maria Peredo -- The economic wellbeing of the San of the western, central, and eastern Kalahari regions of Botswana / Robert Hitchcock and Maria Sapignoli -- Economic wellbeing of the indigenous people in the Asia Pacific region : the role of entrepreneurship in sustainable development / Rick Colbourne and Robert B Anderson -- The social and economic situation of scheduled tribes in India / Daniel Neff, Cornelis W. Haasnoot, Sebastian Renner and Kunal Sen -- Maori identity and economic wellbeing / Carla Houkamau -- "We have our own way" : exploring pathways for wellbeing among Inuit in Nunatsiavut, Labrador, Canada / Alexandra Sawatzky, Ashlee Cunsolo, Sherilee L. Harper, Inez Shiwak and Michele Wood -- Indigenous culture-as-treatment in the era of evidence-based mental health practice / Andrew Pomerville and Joseph P. Gone -- The relationship between child labour, participation in cultural activities, and the schooling outcomes of children : an analysis by indigenous status / Lilia Arcos Holzinger and Nicholas Biddle -- Mabu liyan : the Yawuru way / Mandy Yap and Eunice Yu -- Subjective wellbeing of Aboriginal peoples of Canada / Shashi Kant, Ilan Vertinsky and Bin Zheng -- Subjective wellbeing of indigenous Latin Americans : regional trends and the case of Mexico's indigenous people / Lilia Arcos Holzinger and Nicholas Biddle -- Subjective wellbeing of the Purhépecha people : between tradition and modernity / Mariano Rojas and Paz Chávez -- Subjective wellbeing of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people of Australia / Christopher L. Ambrey, Christopher Fleming and Matthew Manning -- Indigenous wellbeing and future challenges / Matthew Manning and Christopher Fleming.