The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures
Anne Fadiman
352 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0374975809
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Language: English
Publish: January 1, 1998
AnthropologyBiographyHealthHistoryMedicalMedicineMemoirNonfictionSchoolScience
A study in the collision between Western medicine and the beliefs of a traditional culture focuses on a hospitalized child of Laotian immigrants, members of the Hmong tribe, whose belief that illness is a spiritual matter came into conflict with doctors’ methods.