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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
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Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
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 nor her doctors would ever recover. Lia's 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 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.
Parents and doctors both wanted the best for Lia, but their ideas about the causes of her illness and its treatment could hardly have been more different. The Hmong see illness aand healing as spiritual matters linked to virtually everything in the universe, while medical community marks a division between body and soul, and concerns itself almost exclusively with the former. Lia's doctors ascribed her seizures to the misfiring of her cerebral neurons; her parents called her illness, qaug dab peg--the spirit catches you and you fall down--and ascribed it to the wandering of her soul. The doctors prescribed anticonvulsants; her parents preferred animal sacrifices.
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What Customers Say About The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures:
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Not only is this an overall wonderful, if heart wrenching, story, it gives great insight into the Hmong community and culture, which makes us reconsider the way we look at and treat all cultures within our society. We forget or never realize the extent to which we assume our (Western) way is the right way with medicine, and tend to discredit other cultures ideas of healing/medicinal methods. Definitely changed the way I think about western medicine and immigrants.
Never a problem with this bookseller. Quality is as advertized or better--arrival is timely.
Book was for class and not entertainment - with that said - the item arrived as described.
Riveting story of the impact of culture on patients in the healthcare system. I feel that this should be required for all students in any healthcare related field, as well as all involved with children and parents of different cultures.
You will not want to put it down once you get going. One of my favorite books of all time. I believe that it's a great read for all for it really opens your eyes up to another families culture and their intimate life. My Cultural Anthropology teacher had us read this book and I don't regret one minute of it. It's a very touching and compelling book. The knowledge you will acquire from this book is worth the time spent reading it. So buy it.
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