Eli Clare argues that cure in American society is not viewed only as the complete elimination of disability, disease, debility, infirmity, and illness but also includes the structures and rhetoric around diagnosis, treatment, management, rehabilitation and prevention since all of these structures seek to define, classify disability in order to assimilate ones experience back into non-disabled dominant society. Clare argues that the ideology of cure emplores people to seek a state of no harm that is deemed as a "superior state."