num_pages: 352
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures
titlecomplete: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures
genres: Medical, History, Sociology, Biography, Science, Medicine, Health, Memoir, Nonfiction, Anthropology
ratings_count: 80906
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Current Interest, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction
publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux