The spirit catches you and you fall down : a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures / Anne Fadiman.

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.

Medical care.

California.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

ix, 355 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

Paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.

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:

1 Birth 3

2 Fish Soup 12

3 The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down 20

4 Do Doctors Eat Brains? 32

5 Take as Directed 38

6 High-Velocity Transcortical head Therapy 60

7 Government Property 78

8 Foua and Nao Kao 93

9 A Little Medicine and a Little Neeb 106

10 War 119

11 The Big One 140

12 Flight 154

13 Code X 171

14 The Melting Pot 181

15 Gold and Dross 210

16 Why Did They Pick Merced? 225

17 The Eight Questions 250

18 The Life or the Soul 262

19 The Sacrifice 278.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-340) and index.

ISBN:

0374533407

9780374533403

OCLC:

843124455

Publisher Number:

99957768696