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The spirit catches you and you fall down : a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures / Anne Fadiman.
Van Pelt Library RA418.5.T73 F33 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fadiman, Anne, 1953-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Transcultural medical care--California--Case studies.
- Transcultural medical care.
- Hmong American children--Medical care--California.
- Hmong American children.
- Hmong Americans--Medicine.
- Hmong Americans.
- Intercultural communication.
- Epilepsy in children.
- Epilepsy.
- Cross-Cultural Comparison.
- Emigration and Immigration.
- Medical care.
- Laos.
- Attitude of Health Personnel.
- Child.
- California.
- Medical Subjects:
- Epilepsy.
- Cross-Cultural Comparison.
- Emigration and Immigration.
- Laos.
- Attitude of Health Personnel.
- Child.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- ix, 341 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.
- Summary:
- Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this brilliantly reported and beautifully crafted book explores the clash between a medical center in California and a Laotian refugee family over their care of a child--and the lack of understanding that led to tragedy.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-326) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0374525641
- 9780374525644
- OCLC:
- 47352453
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