The eugenic mind project / Robert A. Wilson.

Author/creator Wilson, Robert A. author.
Format Book
PublicationCambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2018.
Descriptionxivolumes, 333 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Machine generated contents note: I. Eugenic Activities: Probing Eugenics -- 1. Standpointing Eugenics -- 2. Characterizing Eugenics -- 2.1. The Short History of Eugenics -- 2.2. A Galtonian Start -- 2.3. Eugenics as Applied Science -- 2.4. Between Science and Social Movement -- 2.5. Eugenics, Race, and Ethnocentrism -- 2.6. Galton, Mental Abilities, and the Weak-Minded -- 2.7. Eugenics and the Mentally Deficient -- 2.8. The Long Past of Eugenics -- 3. Specifying Eugenic Traits -- 3.1. What Is a Eugenic Trait? -- 3.2. Research Publications -- 3.3. Popular Culture -- 3.4. Eugenic Laws: Marriage and Immigration -- 3.5. Sexual Sterilization Legislation -- 3.6. Alberta at the Legislative Margins -- 3.7. Institutionalization and the Social Mechanics of Eugenics -- 3.8. Mental Defectives and the Mentally Ill: Beyond Consent -- 3.9. Three Eugenic Traits: Syphilis, Huntington's, and Epilepsy -- 4. Subhumanizing the Targets of Eugenics -- 4.1. What Sorts of People Should There Be? -- 4.2. The Pursuit of Human Perfection and Life-Worthiness -- 4.3. Eliminating Defectives in Medicine's Short History -- 4.4. Tough Medicine in Postwar Alberta -- 4.5. Rational Ethics: Cognitive Disability in the Eugenic Now -- 4.6. Subhumanization and Standpoint's Complexities: Ashley X -- 4.7. Life-Worthiness and Human Variation -- II. Eugenic Variations: The Persistence of Eugenics -- 5. Where Do Ideas of Human Variation Come From? -- 5.1. Standpoint, Prosociality, and Human Variation -- 5.2. The Puzzle of Marked Variation -- 5.3. Four Initial Desiderata -- 5.4. Variation, Subnormalcy, and Categories of Disablement -- 5.5. Biopolitics and the History of Eugenics -- 5.6. Evaluating the Appeal to Biopolitics -- 5.7. Constructivism's Open Question and Further Desiderata -- 5.8. Conclusion -- 6. A Socio-cognitive Framework for Marked Variation -- 6.1. A Hobbesian Prelude: Born to Be Not-So-Wild -- 6.2. Sociality and Prosociality -- 6.3. Human Sociality and Its Cognitive Demands -- 6.4. Shared Intentionality and Collective Social Action -- 6.5. Sketching the Socio-cognitive Framework -- 6.6. Sorts of People, Normativity, and Marked Variation -- 6.7. Clarifying What First-Person Plural Mechanisms Are -- 6.8. Return of the Seven -- 6.9. Standpoint Eugenics in the Socio-cognitive Framework -- 7. Back Doors, Newgenics, and Eugenics Underground -- 7.1. Newgenics -- 7.2. The Prenatal Back Door to Eugenics -- 7.3. Eugenic Subhumanization and a Continuing Preoccupation -- 7.4. Recasting Debate over the Expressivist Objection -- 7.5. Outing Eugenic Logic in Bioethics: Agar and Savulescu -- 7.6. Diversity and Neoliberalism -- 7.7. Eugenics as Private Enterprise -- 7.8. Eugenic Techniques of Silencing -- 7.9. Conserving Disability -- 8. Eugenics as Wrongful Accusation -- 8.1. Persistent Eugenic Pasts -- 8.2. Subhumanizing Tendencies and Procedural Indifference -- 8.3. An Appeal to Wrongfulness -- 8.4. The Case of Ritual Sexual Abuse -- 8.5. Beyond Moral Panic, Groupthink, and Evil's Banality -- 8.6. Herman on Witnessing and Complicity -- 8.7. From Innocent Bystander to Ally and Advocate -- 8.8. The Psycho-social Dynamics of Wrongful Accusation -- 8.9. Persistence Redux -- III. Eugenic Voices: Knowing Agency at the Margins -- 9. Knowing Agency -- 9.1. Marginal Knowing -- 9.2. Who Cares about Who Knows? -- 9.3. Cognitive Disability and Its Challenges -- 9.4. Vignettes and Voices -- 9.5. Epistemology Impoverished and Knowing Agency -- 9.6. The Politics of Epistemic Apartheid -- 10. Eugenics Unbound: Survivorship for the Subhuman -- 10.1. Standpoint Theory and Knowing Agency -- 10.2. Standpoint Agents for Class and Gender -- 10.3. Race, Lived Reality, and Group-Based Agency -- 10.4. Generalizing Standpoint Theory -- 10.5. Joint and Extended Action in Intellectual Disability -- 10.6. Intrinsic Heterogeneity and Sorts of People -- 10.7. Recovering the Voices of Eugenic Survivorship -- 10.8. Narratives, Stories, and Standpoint -- 10.9. Concluding Thoughts.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages [271]-296) and index.
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2017016908
ISBN9780262037204 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0262037203

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