Title Information
RA418.5.T73F33 1997
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Book
TITLE:
The spirit catches you and you fall down : a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures / Anne Fadiman.
AUTHOR:
Fadiman, Anne, 1953-
PUBLISHED:
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997.
DESCRIPTION:
ix, 341 p. ; 25 cm.
EDITION:
1st ed.
NOTES:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-326) and index.
NOTES:
Wilson's Public Library
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School Library Journal
NOTES:
Library Journal Starred
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Examines cultural issues in the American health care system through the case of Lia, a Hmong-American girl suffering from epilepsy whose treatment by doctors in California conflicted with the traditional healing beliefs held by her family.
NOTES:
Interest level: Adult
SUBJECT:
Transcultural medical care--California--Case studies.
SUBJECT:
Hmong American children--Medical care--California.
SUBJECT:
Hmong Americans--Medicine.
SUBJECT:
Intercultural communication.
SUBJECT:
Epilepsy in children.
SUBJECT:
Medical care--Case studies.
SUBJECT:
Hmong Americans--Medical care.
SUBJECT:
Cultural relations.
SUBJECT:
Epilepsy.
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