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: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9780374525644
Subjects: Hmong Americans; Epilepsy in children; Transcultural medical care; Medical care; Case studies; Medicine; Hmong American children; Intercultural communication
Description: Discusses a sick child of Laotian immigrants whose beliefs conflict with Western medicine.
Notes: Reprint. Originally published: c1997.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-326) 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