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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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Anne Fadiman
- Category: Health - Family & Relationships
- 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
