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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.
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Hmong Americans, Epilepsy in children, Transcultural medical care, Medical care, Case studies, Medicine, Hmong American children, Intercultural communication, Hmong (asian people), united states, Epilepsy, nyt:religion-spirituality-and-faith=2014-09-07, New York Times bestseller, Hmong americans, Hmong american children, Nyt:religion-spirituality-and-faith=2014-09-07, New york times bestsellerPlaces
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The spirit catches you and you fall down: a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures
2012, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English
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0374533407 9780374533403
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"With a new afterword by the author"--Cover.
"Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-340) and index.
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