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The spirit catches you and you fall down : a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures  Cover Image Book Book

The spirit catches you and you fall down : a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures / Anne Fadiman.

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  • ISBN: 9780374533403
  • ISBN: 0374525641
  • ISBN: 9780374525644
  • Physical Description: ix, 341, [7] p. ; 21 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Noonday Press, 1998.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Reader's Guide": p. [343]-[348].
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-326) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Birth -- Fish soup -- The spirit catches you and you fall down -- Do doctors eat brains? -- Take as directed -- High-velocity transcortical lead therapy -- Government property -- Foua and Nao Kao -- A little medicine and a little Neeb -- War -- The big one -- Flight -- Code X -- The melting pot -- Gold and dross -- Why did they pick Merced? -- The eight questions -- The life or the soul -- The sacrifice.
Subject: Transcultural medical care > California > Case studies.
Hmong American children > Medical care > California.
Hmong Americans > Medicine.
Intercultural communication.
Epilepsy in children.
Attitude of Health Personnel.
Attitude to Health > ethnology.
Cross-Cultural Comparison.
Delivery of health care.
Emigration and Immigration > Laos.
Epilepsy.
Ethnic Groups.
Infant.
Child.

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Howe Library 306.461 FAD 31254003478951 Lower level Checked out 05/15/2024


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