User:FeliceRCLi/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Traditional Chinese medicine

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
TCM is the medicine prevailing in imperial China and some other countries in East Asia. I would like to choose this topic because I want to add my cultural perspective to this class. Also, I believe it is important to take a look at this practice which is very different from Western Medicine and considered alternative medicine. The current article has covered many important components of TCM, but yet to be comprehensive. I have noticed it does not include many conversations on psychology or the biopsychosocial model of TCM, which I will add as part of my project.

Evaluate the article
This article is very long, so I am not going to go through every section. Instead, I will mention what I believe should be added to it.

*** overall, strong work here: looking forward to seeing progress on these specific edits.
 * 1) Leading section: It does not mention the holistic care emphasized by TCM. And, I plan to add that TCM address the harmony of the body and the cosmo.***I don't know what you mean by cosmo...it's not a standard English word as spelled here. Please clarify.
 * 2) TCM's emphasis on the emotional reaction affecting physical health. This article does not mention the seven emotions, which are believed to be harmful to seven organs according to the TCM concept. There should be research papers supporting/ against this opinion and I will include these papers.  joy, anger, sorrow, thought, grief, fear, surprise 喜怒憂思悲恐驚
 * 3) "Gender in Traditional Medicine": Besides the existing subsections, there are more important gendered aspects of TCM. I want to add sections about female patients and female TCM practitioners. There was a biopsychosocial explanation ancient TCM practitioners used to explain why women were distinctly different from men in TCM. Women were considered more emotional, thus causing many diseases. I want to focus on an example, the disease of “dreaming of having intercourse with ghosts.”
 * 4) "Diagnostics": In this section, the article already mentioned the four diagnoses of TCM practice. I want to add the reason why pulse-diagnosis was considered the worst among the four, for it produces results uninterpretable to patients, and address the unique doctor-patient relationship in TCM.
 * 5) Treatment of TCM: The article mentioned several TCM treatments, but ignored that an important part of TCM treatment includes physicians' suggestions on diets, lifestyle, and exercise. This illustrates that the mind and body are believed to affect one another in TCM.