The spirit catches you and you fall down : a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures

The spirit catches you and you fall down : a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures /

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Main Author: Fadiman, Anne, 1953-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998
Edition:1st paperback ed.
Subjects:
Transcultural medical care > California > Case studies.
Hmong American children > Medical care > California.
Hmong Americans > Medicine.
Intercultural communication.
Epilepsy in children.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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