Product Details
Category - Non Fiction / Medical
Format - Paperback
Condition - Fair
Listed - 2 years ago
Views - 35
Wishes - 1
Ships From - Michigan
Est. Publication Date - Sep 1998
Seller Description
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures is a 1997 book by Anne Fadiman that chronicles the struggles of a Hmong refugee family from Houaysouy, Sainyabuli Province, Laos,[1] the Lees, and their interactions with the health care system in Merced, California. In 2005 Robert Entenmann of St. Olaf College wrote that the book is "certainly the most widely read book on the Hmong experience in America."
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Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
ISBN: 9780374525644
Publisher Description
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 i...
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