The Spirit Catches You and You Fall down (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for The Spirit Catches You and You Fall down Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this brilliantly reported and beautifully crafted book explores the clash between a medical center in California and a Laotian refugee family over their care of a child--and the lack of understanding that led to tragedy.
Full description- Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
- Published: 30 September 1998
- Format: Paperback 272 pages
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- Categories: Literary Studies: General | Social Groups | Social & Cultural Anthropology | Medical Ethics & Professional Conduct | Popular Medicine & Health | Family & Relationships
- ISBN 13: 9780374525644 ISBN 10: 0374525641
- Sales rank: 15,316
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Full description for The Spirit Catches You and You Fall down
When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced, refugees from the CIA-run "Quiet War" in Laos. The Hmong, traditionally a close-knit and fiercely independent people, have been less amenable to assimilation than most immigrants, adhering steadfastly to the rituals and beliefs of their ancestors. Lia's pediatricians, Neil Ernst and his wife, Peggy Philip, cleaved just as strongly to another tradition: that of Western medicine. When Lia Lee entered the American medical system, diagnosed as an epileptic, her story became a tragic case history of cultural miscommunication.
