Andrew J. Hogan

A historical look at how activists influenced the adoption of more positive, inclusive, and sociopolitical views of disability. Disability activism has fundamentally changed American society for the better—and along with it, the views and practices of many clinical professionals. After 1945, disability self-advocates and family advocates pushed for the inclusion of more positive, inclusive, and sociopolitical perspectives on disability in clinical research, training, and practice. In Disability Dialogues, Andrew J. Hogan highlights the contributions of disabled people—along with their family members and other allies—in changing clinical understandings and approaches to disability. Hogan examines the evolving medical, social, and political engagement of three postwar professions—clinical psychology, pediatrics, and genetic counseling—with disability and disability-related advocacy. Professionals in these fields historically resisted adopting a more inclusive and accepting perspective on people with disabilities primarily due to concerns about professional role, identity, and prestige. In response to the work of disability activists, however, these attitudes gradually began to change. Disability Dialogues provides an important contribution to historical, sociological, and bioethical accounts of disability and clinical professionalization. Moving beyond advocacy alone, Hogan makes the case for why present-day clinical professional fields need to better recruit and support disabled practitioners. Disabled clinicians are uniquely positioned to combine biomedical expertise with their lived experiences of disability and encourage greater tolerance for disabilities among their colleagues, students, and institutions.

Medical geneticists began mapping the chromosomal infrastructure piece by piece in the 1970s by focusing on what was known about individual genetic disorders. Five decades later, their infrastructure had become an edifice for prevention, allowing today's expecting parents to choose to test prenatally for hundreds of disease-specific mutations using powerful genetic testing platforms. In Life Histories of Genetic Disease, Andrew J. Hogan explores how various diseases were "made genetic" after 1960, with the long-term aim of treating and curing them using gene therapy. In the process, he explains, these disorders were located in the human genome and became targets for prenatal prevention, while the ongoing promise of gene therapy remained on the distant horizon. In narrating the history of research that contributed to diagnostic genetic medicine, Hogan describes the expanding scope of prenatal diagnosis and prevention. He draws on case studies of Prader-Willi, fragile X, DiGeorge, and velo-cardio-facial syndromes to illustrate that almost all testing in medical genetics is inseparable from the larger-and increasingly "big data"-oriented-aims of biomedical research. Hogan also reveals how contemporary genetic testing infrastructure reflects an intense collaboration among cytogeneticists, molecular biologists, and doctors specializing in human malformation. Hogan critiques the modern ideology of genetic prevention, which suggests that all pregnancies are at risk for genetic disease and should be subject to extensive genomic screening. He examines the dilemmas and ethics of the use of prenatal diagnostic information in an era when medical geneticists and biotechnology companies have begun offering whole genome prenatal screening-essentially searching for any disease-causing mutation. Hogan's focus and analysis is animated by ongoing scientific and scholarly debates about the extent to which the preventive focus in contemporary medical genetics resembles the aims of earlier eugenicists. Written for historians, sociologists, and anthropologists of science and medicine, as well as bioethics scholars, physicians, geneticists, and families affected by genetic conditions, Life Histories of Genetic Disease is a profound exploration of the scientific culture surrounding malformation and mutation.

"from Smoke" is a 2015 poetry and prose collection book from Scars Publications (http: //scars.tv) of the July through December 2015 issues of cc&d magazine (http: //scars.tv/ccd). Writers and artists included in this book are Janet Kuypers, Aaron Wilder (with art), Andrew J. Hogan, Andy Roberts, Bill Yarrow, Bob Rashkow, Bob Strother, Brian Forrest (with art), Brian Looney, Bruce Costello, CEE, Charles Hayes, Chen Okafor, Cheryl Townsend (with art), Chris Roe, Christopher Davis, David Hernandez, David J. Thompson (with art), David Michael Jackson (with art), David Russell (with art), Dean Jones, Dennis Delrow, DG Mago, Donald Gaither, Doug Draime, Dr. (Ms.) Michael S. Whitt, Dr. Shmooz (with art), Drew Marshall, Edward Michael O'Durr Supranowicz (story and art), Edward Michael O'Durr Supranowicz (with art), Elizabeth Harper, Eric Allen Yankee, Eric Bonholtzer (with art), Eric Burbridge, Frank C. Praeger, Fritz Hamilton, G. A. Scheinoha, I. B. Rad, Jackie Wolk, Jay Frankston, Jenene Ravesloot, Jesse Williams, John Amendall, John Grey, Keith Kelly, Kyle Hemmings (with art), L. Payne, Liam Spencer, Linda Griffin, Linda M. Crate, Lisa Gray, Luis Cuauht moc Berriozabal, Luis Martinez, Margaret Karmazin & Janet Amalia Weinberg, Maria Carroll, Maura Gage Cavell, MCD, Micah White, Michael Ceraolo, Michael Lee Johnson, Mike Ducak, Natasha Cabot, Nora McDonald, Oz Hardwick, Patrick Fealey, Peter LaBerge (with art), Phil Temples, Preston R. P., R. N. Taber, Richard King Perkins II, Ronald Charles Epstein, Sarah Szabo, Sheryl L. Nelms, Spencer Pearman, Steve Slavin, the HA Man of South Africa (with art), Traci Lavois Thiebaud, Uzeyir Lokman CAYCI (with art), William Jablonsky, and Xanadu.