BookAnne Fadiman.
Summary: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with severe epilepsy. Lia's parents and her doctors both wanted what was best for Lia, but the lack of understanding between them led to tragedy. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest, and the Salon Book Award, Anne Fadiman's compassionate account of this cultural impasse is literary journalism at its finest. -- Provided by Publisher on back cover.
Contents:
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.
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