The spirit catches you and you fall down
Subtitle: a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures
By: Anne Fadiman
Edition: Paperback edition.
Series: FSG Classics; FSG classics
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9780374533403
Subjects: Hmong Americans; Epilepsy in children; Transcultural medical care; Medical care; Case studies; Medicine; Hmong American children; Intercultural communication
Description: 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.
Notes: "With a new afterword by the author"--Cover.

"Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-340) and index.
Table of contents: title: Birth; title: Fish soup; title: The spirit catches you and you fall down; title: Do doctors eat brains?; title: Take as directed; title: High-velocity transcortical lead therapy; title: Government property; title: Foua and Nao Kao; title: A little medicine and a little neeb; title: War; title: The big one; title: Flight; title: Code X; title: The melting pot; title: Gold and dross; title: Why did they pick Merced?; title: The eight questions; title: The life or the soul; title: The sacrifice.