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Part science and part social movement, eugenics emerged in the late nineteenth century as a tool for human improvement. In response to perceived threats of criminality, moral degeneration, feeble-mindedness, and "the rising tide of color," eugenic laws and social policies aimed to better the human race by regulating reproductive choice through science and technology. In this book, Rob Wilson examines eugenic thought and practice--from forced sterilization to prenatal screening--drawing on his experience working with eugenics survivors.? Using the social sciences' standpoint theory as a framework to understand the intersection of eugenics, disability, social inclusiveness, and human variation, Wilson focuses on those who have lived through a eugenic past and those confronted by the legacy of eugenic thinking today.? By doing so, he brings eugenics from the distant past to the ongoing present.?Wilson discusses such topics as the conceptualization of eugenic traits; the formulation of laws regulating immigration and marriage and requiring sexual sterilization; the depiction of the targets of eugenics as "subhuman";?the systematic construction of a concept of normality; the eugenic logic in prenatal screening and contemporary bioethics; and the incorporation of eugenics and disability into standpoint theory.?Individual purchasers of this book will receive free access to the documentary?Surviving Eugenics, available at EugenicsArchive.ca/film.

AbstractThe conceptualisation of kinship and its study remain contested within anthropology. This paper draws on recent cognitive science, developmental cognitive psychology, and the philosophy of science to offer a novel argument for a view of kinship as progeneratively or reproductively constrained. I shall argue that kinship involves a form ofextended cognitionthat incorporates progenerative facts, going on to show how the resulting articulation of kinship's progenerative nature can be readily expressed by an influential conception of kinds, the homeostatic property cluster view. Identifying the distinctive role that our extended cognitive access to progenerative facts plays in kinship delivers an integrative, progenerativist view that avoids standard performativist criticisms of progenerativism as being ethnocentric, epistemically naïve, and reductive.

It is the purpose of this paper to address what issues will be faced in rural and remote Australia upon the implementation of a National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and what strategies will best mitigate risks. The current disability service sector in Australia is very destitute with many issues having been raised such as poor service delivery and inconsistency in services across States and Territories. An NDIS is the proposed solution to achieve long term benefits in the disability sector and to make the service sector more competitive to enhance choice for persons with disability by giving them funds directly. It is an unprecedented reform, designed to cover all Australians in the case of disability and nationalise the disability sector which is presently administrated at the State level. Thus this report seeks to analyse the implementation of the reform in a rural and remote setting, providing some recommendations to best achieve the goals of an NDIS. Methods of analysis included a literature review of rural health and disability research and, further, interviews and consultation were taken with disability policy experts, government, NGOs and academics. The findings concluded four main challenges of service viability risks, issues of funding provision and lack of consumer choice, the importance of information transfer and infrastructure in rural communities, and poor staff retention rates in the disability services sector. In order to address these challenges the report suggests taking not a single but multiple strategies based on mitigating against market failure. They cover implementation strategies of self-directed funding, mitigating against market failure, promoting online services and fiexibility at a local level to build on infrastructure and addressing staff retention. Limitations in this report include difficulties in compiling resources from a lack of research material available and many studies have been focused on particular regions which may not have broader applications. Also, this report has not covered the more complex policy case of rural and remote indigenous communities which have strong cultural backgrounds. Brief summary of recommendations Recommendation 1: That self-directed funding is utilised in rural and remote areas and that the planning and evaluation process for an individual is done by the NDIA with national standards and procedures in place. Recommendation 2: That local market rates are considered when deciding a budget allocation for an individual. Recommendation 3: That community support workers are allowed to be directly employed with careful regulations. Recommendation 4: That paid family care only be considered in extreme circumstances where it is a last resort and a framework is designed to ensure severe cases of disability receive formal care. Recommendation 5: That transitional funds are provided, and providers assessments, are conducted by the NDIA. Recommendation 6:That an NDIA decision making .framework is constructed to identify market failure. In cases of intervention, as identified by the framework, implement a competitive tendered model that adheres to not only a lowest cost basis, but to strict quality assurances for staff conditions and service delivery. In any extreme cases, block funding will be needed to ensure the service is provided. Recommendation 7: That the infrastructure of each region is assessed by the NDIA and that the current infrastructure in place is utilised to enhance communication and community collaboration. Recommendation 8: That the NDIA advocate service providers to use various incentives, not only financial, in their staff benefits. Further, that the NDIA promote the use of online services and the NBN.

The constitution view of persons, according to which a person is
constituted by a body, has both interesting extensions as well as
limitations. Here I shall leave discussion of the limitations for another
time and concentrate on several extensions. The chief extensions of the
constitution view that I shall explore here concern the implications of
combining it with ontological pluralism, and applications of it (or
something like it) to thinking about various forms of social agency.