Chinese System Medicine Discussion

In this discussion, please frame your comments around your thoughts as I introduce you to other ways of thinking about health. On your “trip” to China, what interested you? What surprised you? Discuss the healthcare implications of the surgery we witnessed.

Also, discuss what you saw in the second video. With the focus more on what you would see in the United States. How surprised are you there are systems of medicine, health and healing totally different from the United States?

Each post should be a thoughtful post, 300-500 words in length

The discussion in this unit is linked with the video presentation from Jean Kilbourne called “Killing us Softly.” In it, she demonstrates advertising in the United States, and how American women (specifically young women in their teens or younger) are targeted. Based on the presentation, please discuss the following (300-500 words):

Was there something in the presentation that particularly shocked you? What are some of the potential effects (physical, emotional, mental) on girls and women of trying to live up to our culture’s manufactured ideal image of beauty? What is the relationship between cultural ideals of thinness and the cultural obsession with dieting? With eating disorders?

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.