The spirit catches you and you fall down : a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures
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- The spirit catches you and you fall down : a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures
- Title remainder
- a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures
- Statement of responsibility
- Anne Fadiman
- Subject
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- California
- California
- California
- Case Reports
- Case Reports
- Case studies
- Case studies
- Case studies
- Case studies
- Child
- Child
- Communication
- Cross-Cultural Comparison
- Cross-Cultural Comparison
- Culture
- Emigration and Immigration
- Emigration and Immigration
- Epilepsy
- Epilepsy
- Epilepsy
- Epilepsy in children
- Epilepsy in children
- Epilepsy in children
- Hmong American children -- Medical care -- California
- Hmong Americans -- Medical care
- Hmong Americans -- Medicine
- Hmong Americans -- Medicine
- Hmong Americans -- Medicine
- Infant
- Infant
- Intercultural communication
- Intercultural communication
- Intercultural communication
- Attitude of Health Personnel
- Laos
- Medical care -- California -- Case studies
- Transcultural medical care
- Transcultural medical care
- Transcultural medical care -- California -- Case studies
- Laos
- Attitude of Health Personnel
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 understanding between them led to tragedy. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest, and the Salon Book Award, Anne Fadiman's compassionate account of this cultural impasse is literary journalism at its finest. -- Provided by Publisher on back cover
- Awards note
- National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, 1997, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest, and the Salon Book Award.
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 362.109794
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- RA418.5.T73
- LC item number
- F33 2012
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- NLM call number
- WA 30
- NLM item number
- F145s 2012
- Series statement
- FSG Classics
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