Very well-written account of a Hmong family with an epileptic daughter, and their collision with western medicine. At turns heartbreaking, frustrating, insightful, and educational, this book is well worth reading.Just a few of the delicious words Fadiman uses (this is only from the last third of th...
I don't know what to call this thing. A cautionary medical folktale? A cross cultural thriller? An unfailingly even handed but riveting throw down between Western and tribal/herbal/shamanistic medicine? No, none of that is right. It's an ethical conundrum. A parable with no winners, no satisfactory ...
I do feel a bit bad giving the book such a low rating, but am afraid that to me it was just 'OK'. I can easily see its appeal if you're interested in medicine or the Hmong culture, or want to read up on the consequences of cultural clashes and possible ways to circumvent that. But as neither of thos...
Amazing. Truly a wonderful book.This should be required reading for anthropology students who are intending to do ethnography. The author walks a perfect balance between telling two sides of a complex and heartbreaking story.The final chapter made me cry real tears. It was very intense and sad, but ...
This was an extremely sad book and it becomes even sadder when you realize that it's based on a real story. I had to read it for a nursing class, but it's defiantly the type of novel that I would read outside of class too.
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