An edition of The spirit catches you and you fall down
(1997)
The spirit catches you and you fall down
a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures
1st pbk. ed.
by Anne Fadiman
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Discusses a sick child of Laotian immigrants whose beliefs conflict with Western medicine.
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Hmong Americans, Epilepsy in children, Transcultural medical care, Medical care, Case studies, Medicine, Hmong American children, Intercultural communication, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Case Reports, Epilepsy, Cross-Cultural Comparison, Child, Emigration and Immigration, Attitude of Health Personnel, Geneeskunde, Kulturkonflikt, Volksgeneeskunde, Ärztliche Behandlung, Hmong (asian people), united statesPlaces
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Table of Contents
Birth
Fish soup
The spirit catches you and you fall down
Do doctors eat brains?
Take as directed
High-velocity transcortical lead therapy
Government property
Foua and Nao Kao
A little medicine and a little neeb
War
The big one
Flight
Code X
The melting pot
Gold and dross
Why did they pick Merced?
The eight questions
The life or the soul
The sacrifice
Edition Notes
Reprint. Originally published: c1997.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-326) and index.
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"If Lia Lee had been born in the highlands of northwest Laos, where her parents and twelve of her brothers and sisters were born, her mother would have squatted on the floor of the house that her father had built from ax-hewn planks thatched with bamboo and grass."
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