American culture typically assumes that preventing illness and disease is an inherently good act. However, historically illness prevention has worked hand in hand with movements like the American eugenics movement and medical racism in ways that have subjected disabled people, people of color, and poor people to isolation, incarceration, medical experimentation, and nonconsensual and nontherapeutic medical treatment. Also, many of the reasons American culture views prevention as an inherent good is because of larger glorifications of the idea of curing illness and disease.