Sraghuvir

Hello! My name is Sanchu and I am a Neuroscience major at Rice University on the pre-med track, enrolled in the Intro to Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities course (PJHC 371). My interests lie in exploring healthcare disparities for underprivileged communities, working towards empowering women, and increasing discussion about race, privilege, and dis/ability. Through wikipedia, I hope to be able to engage in interesting and important discourse on these topics, and I look forward to contributing effectively and informatively to this intellectual community. I am currently thinking about creating new articles on ableism in the US health care system, or ableism in India. Below, I have listed the sources that I am planning on using for these articles. The first ten are for ableism in the US health care system, and the next 10 are for ableism in India.

1. Ableism in US health care
   1. As an aspiring physician, health care is a topic of great interest to me, and there are several healthcare disparities that need to be addressed regarding socioeconomic status and physician biases, and so on. Last year, I also took a course in feminist speculative fiction, in which I explored ableism and prosthetics in a feminist context. Writing on ableism in US healthcare settings would allow me to learn more about the US healthcare system and the many flaws within it, while also developing my previous experience writing about ableism. I would have to write a new article, and the parent articles for it would be Ableism, Disability in the US, and Healthcare in the US.
      1. Clark, Beth, and Nina Preto. “Exploring the Concept of Vulnerability in Health Care.” Canadian Medical Association Journal 190, no. 11 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.180242.
      2. Brown, Lydia XZ. "Legal Ableism, Interrupted: Developing Tort Law & Policy Alternatives to Wrongful Birth & Wrongful Life Claims." Disability Studies Quarterly 38, no. 2 (2018).  http://dx.doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v38i2.6207
      3. Eisenberg, Nina W., Sarah-Rae Andreski, and Linda R. Mona. “Sexuality and Physical Disability: A Disability-Affirmative Approach to Assessment and Intervention Within Health Care.” Current Sexual Health Reports 7, no. 1 (2015): 19–29. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11930-014-0037-3.
      4. Barclay, Linda. “In Sickness and in Dignity: A Philosophical Account of the Meaning of Dignity in Health Care.” International Journal of Nursing Studies, vol. 61 (2016): 136–141., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2016.06.010.
      5. Maestas, Nicole, Kathleen J. Mullen, and Alexander Strand. "Disability Insurance and Health Insurance Reform: Evidence from Massachusetts." The American Economic Review 104, no. 5 (2014): 329-35. http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.rice.edu/stable/42920958.
      6. Johnson, K, and E Johns. “The Effect Of Caring For An Ill Or Disabled Child On A Parent’S Retirement Nest Egg.” Innovation in Aging 2, no. suppl_1 (January 2018): 322–22. https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igy023.1178.
      7. Phillipson, L, Johnson, K, Cridland, E, Hall, D, Neville, C, Fielding, E, and Hasan, H. “Knowledge, Help-Seeking and Efficacy to Find Respite Services: An Exploratory Study in Help-Seeking Carers of People with Dementia in the Context of Aged Care Reforms.” BMC Geriatrics 19, no. 1 (January 7, 2019): 1–9. http://search.proquest.com/docview/2168576062/.
      8. Nicolaidis, Christina, Dora M Raymaker, Elesia Ashkenazy, Katherine E Mcdonald, Sebastian Dern, Amelia Ev Baggs, Steven K Kapp, Michael Weiner, and W Cody Boisclair. “‘Respect the Way I Need to Communicate with You’: Healthcare Experiences of Adults on the Autism Spectrum.” Autism 19, no. 7 (2015): 824–31. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361315576221.
      9. Shapira, Shahar, and Leeat Granek. “Negotiating Psychiatric Cisgenderism-Ableism in the Transgender- Autism Nexus.” Feminism & Psychology, October 2019, 095935351985084. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353519850843.
      10. Viscardis, Katharine, Carla Rice, Victoria Pileggi, Angela Underhill, Eliza Chandler, Nadine Changfoot, Phyllis Montgomery, and Roxanne Mykitiuk. “Difference Within and Without: Health Care Providers’ Engagement With Disability Arts.” Qualitative Health Research 29, no. 9 (2018): 1287–98. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732318808252

1. Ableism in India
   1. My second topic also relates to ableism, but in a different country. As an Indian-American, my parents are both immigrants from India, and I have several childhood memories of visiting India, and seeing extreme poverty and disability firsthand in the streets. Although casteism and sexism in India are heavily explored topics, there is yet to be a wikipedia page on ableism in India, and I think that is a major gap in knowledge that I want to fill. I would need to create an entirely new entry, and the parent articles would be Ableism, Disability in India, and India. The Ableism article is substantially fleshed out, but only focuses on the English-speaking world, and the parent article on India is quite extensive. The Disability in India article only has four sections and is not super thorough, so I could also consider elaborating on that same page rather than making my own.
      1. Chakraborty, Achin, and Subrata Mukherjee. “Living Arrangement and Capability Deprivation of the Disabled in India.” Dynamics of Asian Development Interrogating Disability in India, 2016, 77–96. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-3595-8_5.
      2. Chaudhry, Vandana. “Neoliberal Disorientations: Changing Landscapes of Disability and Governance in India.” Disability & Society 30, no. 8 (2015): 1158–73. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2015.1081093.
      3. Chaudhry, Vandana. “Living at the Edge.” Affilia 31, no. 2 (January 7, 2016): 177–91. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886109915622525.
      4. Ghosh, Nandini. “Disabled People’s Organizations in India: Assertions and Angsts.” Dynamics of Asian Development Interrogating Disability in India, 2016, 183–98. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-3595-8_11.
      5. Malhotra, Nikhil. “Disability Rights Movements in India: Politics and Practice.” Economic and Political Weekly 46, no. 6 (February 11, 2011): 65–72. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27918121?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents.
      6. Wolf, Anna-Lena. 2015. "Rethinking Disability in India." Internationales Asien Forum.International Quarterly for Asian Studies 46 (3): 386-388. http://ezproxy.rice.edu/login?url=https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.rice.edu/docview/1799000613?accountid=7064.
      7. Chavan, B., & Rozatkar, A. (2014). Intellectual disability in India: Charity to right based. Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 56(2), 113–116. https://doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.130477
      8. Michele Friedner, Nandini Ghosh, and Deepa Palaniappan. “‘Cross-Disability’ in India?: On the Limits of Disability as a Category and the Work of Negotiating Impairments.” South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal (April 1, 2018). https://journals.openedition.org/samaj/4516
      9. Naraharisetti, Ramya, and Castro, Marcia C.de. “Factors Associated with Persons with Disability Employment in India: a Cross-Sectional Study” 16, no. 1 (2016): 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3713-6
      10. Sharma, Seema, and Sivakami, Muthusamy. “Sexual and Reproductive Health Concerns of Persons with Disability in India: an Issue of Deep-Rooted Silence.” Journal of biosocial science 51, no. 2 (March 2019): 225–243. https://doi-org.ezproxy.rice.edu/10.1017/S0021932018000081.