User:Ciarrai32/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

 * Article title
 * Self-care


 * Article Evaluation
 * According to the banner, this article is written in the form of a "personal reflection, personal essay, or argumentative essay." This means that the article most likely has issues with neutrality and citing balanced sources. There may also be situations where original research or connections were made. The definition of self-care is also quite exclusionary, focusing only on adopting self-care when illness occurs, rather than making it an integral part of daily life. The importance of practicing self-care in daily life could be an additional subsection that we could add to this article. There is also very little mention of the impact of using community care as a form of self-care in this article. That is another possible topic that could do with additional detail. In the article there is also little mention of the commercialization of self-care and how this capitalism's hold upon it reduces the ability of those in minority communities to perform adequate self-care practices. We could edit this article to include more information regarding self-care commercialization and provide alternatives sources that identify means of self care that are disassociated from capitalism and the Medical Industrial Complex.
 * Sources
 * https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/caring-for-your-mental-health
 * https://isfglobal.org/what-is-self-care/
 * https://isfglobal.org/what-is-self-care/

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Self-Diagnosis


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is more of a stub and definitely has many potential places and section that can be added and worked on. There are no subheadings besides a "See Also" section which merely provides links to other related wikipedia topics. The portion of the article that has been written seems to have a variety of sources, so it may be helpful to explore some of those sources even more in order to expand on the article. This article could also use a section on mis-diagnosis and how this disproportionately affects communities of color. Also this article could have a section on self-diagnosis and its relation to mental health. The article quickly touches upon this in its last paragraph ("Complex conditions for which medications are heavily advertised, including conditions like ADHD in adults, present a more challenging situation. Direct-to-consumer marketing of medications is widely criticized for promoting inappropriate self-diagnosis"). This could be another place that we could build on with the appropriate sources.
 * Sources
 * https://ovidsp.dc2.ovid.com/ovid-b/ovidweb.cgi?&S=FPDGFPDNHHEBPKGGJPMJPEIHFGJFAA00&Complete+Reference=S.sh.53%7c6%7c1&Counter5=SS_view_found_complete%7c2015-18233-018%7cpsyh%7cpsycdb%7cpsyc12&Counter5Data=2015-18233-018%7cpsyh%7cpsycdb%7cpsyc12
 * https://ct.counseling.org/2022/03/self-diagnosis-in-a-digital-world/
 * https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/testing/self-testing.html#:~:text=Self%2Dtests%20for%20COVID%2D19,counter%20(OTC)%20tests.%E2%80%9D
 * https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/testing/self-testing.html#:~:text=Self%2Dtests%20for%20COVID%2D19,counter%20(OTC)%20tests.%E2%80%9D

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Bodymind


 * Article Evaluation
 * Although this article has a lot of information surrounding the importance of body-mind in alternative medicine, the article itself does not carry a neutral tone. The term bodymind does not seem to be adequately connected to Medical Industrial Complex and how it has been nearly systematically ignored by Western Medicine as being a complete unit. There could be more mention of the fact that the body and the mind have been historically treated as two separate entities by medical culture (a heavier focus on the physical versus the abstract). The article also does not really discuss the many physical effects of mental illness and how it can impact the lives of people living with it. We could work on adding more detail to the disability studies section of the article in order to highlight this fact. There is also a multitude of citation issues stemming from misquotations of the subjects in the sources, so this is also an area that we could fix / rewrite.
 * Sources
 * https://www.dukeupress.edu/bodyminds-reimagined
 * https://www.dukeupress.edu/bodyminds-reimagined

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