The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

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Anne Fadiman

  • Category: Ethics - Medical
  • ISBN: 9780374525644
  • ISBN10: 0374525641
  • Edition Description: Pbk
  • Publisher: Noonday Pr
  • Publish Date: 1998-09-01
  • Pages: 352
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Dimensions: 55.50 L x 36.00 W x 6.00 H
  • Weight: 5.00 lbs

Description:

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.

Selected Reviews:

"[Fadiman] describes with extraordinary skill the colliding worlds of Western medicine and Hmong culture...yet she remains exquisitely attuned to the interconnectedness of things."

--New Yorker

Awards:

Winner: National Book Critics Circle Award, 1997

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