“The main problem here is one of social behavior”: Intersectional Identities at the Ontario Hospital, Woodstock, 1918-1968
Why this work is in the frame
A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Using the resident case files from the Ontario Hospital, Woodstock, this article looks at the experiences of white and racialized women who were incarcerated between 1918 and 1968. The Ontario Hospital, Woodstock, was one of 20 institutions operated by the province that incarcerated people deemed “feebleminded”. Woodstock’s initial purpose was to house people with epilepsy, and later, tuberculosis. This article aims to respond to the call for more intersectional approaches to disability history. Through the testimonies of doctors and nurses, I interrogate how gender, whiteness, Indigeneity, and age were perceived, constructed, and perpetuated within the walls of institutional life as seen in archival sources. The words of professionals are the only remaining sources, as patient notes and writings have not been archived. The morality and personal views of the professional staff became the basis of treatment and maintained incarceration. Keywords: Disability history, institutionalization, intersectionality, archival research, Ontario
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it