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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (FSG Classics) by Anne Fadiman (2012-04-24) by Fadiman, Anne, 1953- is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (FSG Classics) by Anne Fadiman (2012-04-24) about?
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. 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 and healing as spiritual matters linked to virtually everything in the universe, while the 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 <i>qaug dab peg</i> -- the spirit catches you and you fall down -- and ascribed it to the wandering of her soul. The doctors prescribed anti-convulsants; her parents preferred animal sacrifices. <i>The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down</i> moves from hospital corridors to healing ceremonies, and from the hill country of Laos to the living rooms of Merced, uncovering
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Fadiman, Anne, 1953-
- Publisher
- New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781429931113
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Social Science, Medical, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.6 / 5 (5,614 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (FSG Classics) by Anne Fadiman (2012-04-24) (1998)
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (FSG Classics) (1998)
- The The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures (1997)
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (FSG Classics) (2012)
- The spirit catches you and you fall down : a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures (1998)