User:Annamirly/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Medical-industrial complex:
 * This article lacks a history section in its entirety, and could be a good starting point for a project. The page is prefaced with a warning about the neutrality of the article, and correcting that may also be an area for improvement. :
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Option 2

 * Violence against people with disabilities:
 * This article is very short, and definitely does not encompass the history and evolution of violent discrimination we've talked about in class. The section about institutionalized vs. noninstitutionalized violence could very much be expanded. Similarly, there is not much of a history section which could likely be created, nor is there section dedicated to medical violence which may be warranted here. :
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Option 3

 * Medicalization:
 * While this page has a lovely history section, there is room to add the concepts of "black medicalization" and medicalization of disability that we've talked about in class. :
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Option 4

 * Cure:
 * This article is very short, and only covers the word cure as a statistical model and examples of cures throughout history. However, there is no mention of the ideology of a cure that we've talked about extensively nor is there a "see also" reference page that would lead a reader to learn about this view of cure. I think it would be worth talking about the somewhat ableist view of "cure" and the rhetoric surrounding what it means to be cured.:
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Option 5

 * Disability and women's health:
 * Same problem as with other possibilities-- there is not a history section. I would like to elaborate upon the historical instances of experimentation on disabled women (including Buck v. Bell), but potentially more important would be a section regarding the ethics and autonomy of experimentation (for example-- the Ashley Treatment). There is a section on sexual health, but it is possible that further elaboration is needed. :
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