The spirit catches you and you fall down : a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures / Anne Fadiman.
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012Edition: Paperback editionDescription: ix, 355 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780374533403 (pbk.)
- Transcultural medical care -- California -- Case studies
- Hmong American children -- Medical care -- California
- Hmong Americans -- Medicine
- Intercultural communication
- Epilepsy in children
- Child -- Laos -- Case Reports
- Epilepsy -- Laos -- Case Reports
- Attitude of Health Personnel -- Laos -- Case Reports
- Cross-Cultural Comparison -- Laos -- Case Reports
- Emigration and Immigration -- Laos -- Case Reports
- Infant -- Laos
- RA418.5.T73 F33 2012
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-340) and index.
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.
A study in the collision between Western medicine and the beliefs of a traditional culture focuses on a hospitalized child of Laotian immigrants whose belief that illness is a spiritual matter comes into conflict with doctors' methods.