Anne Fadiman - The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
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The Conflict Nobody Wanted
The subject of this book is Lia Lee, a Hmong child born in the States to parents who came to California as refuges from the war in Vietnam in 1980, a time when very little was known about Hmong culture among the American culture at large, much less American medical establishment. As an infant, Lia... Read full review »
Hmong Means Free Man
This book is required reading for medical students according to the Hmong Interpreter where I work. It was the winner of the national book critic's circle award. Was praised by editors from the Washington Post to the New York times and many others. After you read it you will see why.
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Smith's summer chore
As an entering student at Smith College, I found myself immersed in the new life I would be coming into: excited about everything, planning my class loads, wondering what my roommate would be like, fretting about dorms, the right place on campus, and homework. When I found out we had summer reading... Read full review »
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Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down - Anne Fadiman - 9780374525644 - 0374525641
ISBN13: 9780374525644. ISBN10: 0374525641. by Anne Fadiman. Published by MacMillan Higher Education. Edition: 97
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| Authors | Anne Fadiman | |
| Nonfiction Category | Literary Criticism • Medical • Social Science | |
| Awards | 1998 Boston Book Review Award | |
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| New Yorker: "[Fadiman] describes with extraordinary skill the colliding worlds of Western medicine and Hmong culture...yet she remains exquisitely attuned to the interconnectedness of things." | ||
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