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 »
book will bring you into another culture
I had to read this book for a class I'm taking this semester. This book is actually our university's "book of the semester. This book is very informative and will make you feel like you've stepped into another culture.
This book is about a clash between American doctors and the Hmong...
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It will make you think
This book is remarkable in that it manages to tell a compelling story about one little girl's epilepsy while, at the same time, offering a broad and moving expose about the cultural clash between Eastern and Western medicine.
The author of this book doesn't try to remove herself from the...
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A Typical One-Dimensional View
"The Spirit Catches You…" is a worthwhile read for anyone interested in learning trivia about Hmong-Americans and, in particular, the tragic outcome for an epileptic Hmong-American child caught in the middle of an epic clash between her Hmong parents' orthodoxy, her American doctor's cultural... Read full review »
Smith Summer Reading a 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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