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050 00 $aRA418.5.T73$bF33 2012
082 00 $a362.109794$223
100 1 $aFadiman, Anne,$d1953-
245 14 $aThe spirit catches you and you fall down :$ba Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures /$cAnne Fadiman.
250 $aPaperback edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2012.
300 $aix, 355 pages ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 327-340) and index.
505 0 $aBirth -- 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.
520 $aThe 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.
650 0 $aTranscultural medical care$zCalifornia$xCase studies.
650 0 $aHmong American children$xMedical care$zCalifornia.
650 0 $aHmong Americans$xMedicine.
650 0 $aIntercultural communication.
650 0 $aEpilepsy in children.
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