User:Hannahm715/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Traditional medicine

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
This article was chosen due to its relation to where modern healthcare is heading. The WHO and APA have both noted how traditional medicine is making headway as preventative healthcare instead of interventional or treatment which is what western healthcare is based around now. My preliminary impression is that the article is mainly unbiased, offers a lot of history of traditional medicine from multiple backgrounds, but lacks in the section of modern usage. The lack of information in modern usage of traditional medicine is what made me choose this article as learning about different cultures and their practices has shown me that medicines can be used in older cultures as well as uses today which is what I want to elaborate on.

Evaluate the article
The Traditional medicine article is well written. It starts off with a brief history and definition of what traditional medicine is and its uses within other cultures outside of the originating which was in parts of Asia and Africa. The article lists some forms of alternative medicine used, also providing images with detailed captions about the contents of the image. The article breaks down traditional medicine usage from classical use and origins to Medieval times into modern usage. The section I plan on updating is the modern usage subsection of the article. The article also includes how practices have been transmitted through cultures, terminology, folk medicine and home remedies. Towards the end of the article they do list safety concerns with using traditional medicine and how they used traditional medicine extracts from some endangered species.

The main gap in information within the article lies in Colonial America and modern usage subsections. These two sections are not as equally mentioned as the other sections within the article and give a small content gap.

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