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

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with severe epilepsy. Lia's parents and her doctors both wanted what was best for Lia, but the lack of under...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Fadiman, Anne, 1953-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
Edition:	Paperback edition.
Subjects:	Epilepsie. Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer > Bitterfeld. Laikos Orthodoxos Synagermos. Transcultural medical care > California > Case studies. Hmong American children > Medical care > California. Hmong Americans > Medicine. Intercultural communication. Epilepsy in children. Journalismus. Interessenkonflikt. Fallstudie. Biomedizin. Interkulturelles Verstehen. Laotischer Flüchtling. Volksreligion. Geisterglaube. Seelenglaube. Verlust. Seele. Miao. Barn. Epilepsi. Hälsovård. Kulturmöten. Fallstudier. Child. Epilepsy. Attitude of Health Personnel. Cross-Cultural Comparison. Emigration and Immigration. Infant. Laos.

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.