The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures
by:
Anne Fadiman (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780374975807 (0374975809)
Publish date: September 30th 1998
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Science,
Culture,
Health,
Medical,
Asia,
Anthropology,
Medicine
This is a fantastic work of journalistic nonfiction. It begins with a toddler, Lia Lee, living in California in the 1980s. The daughter of Hmong refugees, Lia begins suffering epileptic seizures as an infant, but her treatment goes wrong as her parents and the American doctors are unable to understa...
This book is in equal parts eye-opening and cringe-worthy. The latter because the reader has the benefit of seeing both views of different cultures: Western medicine and cultural beliefs / superstition -- and their inevitable clash, on account of their inability to meld. Caught in between is the lif...
Medical books seem to get high ratings. Emperor of maladies has an average 4.33 but severe narratology problems in second half. Many patients reading in hospitals probably.Looks to be error. By tartar straux..., Waugh iPad spell correct t. Farrar straux2/5 but readership loves this bookokkay got of...
Wow, I had heard good things about this book, but I didn't expect to be so moved by this alternately fascinating and frustrating story. The author does a fantastic job of telling the story from both points of view: the American doctors' and the Hmong family's. She manages to present both groups symp...
The most important and difficult moment of this book:"That's tyranny," said Sukey. "What if you have a family who rejects surgery because they believe an illness has a spiritual cause? What if they see a definite possibility of eternal damnation for their child if she dies from surgery? Next to that...
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