Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
by: Anne Fadiman
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Product Details
Category - Non Fiction / Medical
Format - Paperback
Condition - Good
Listed - 12 days ago
Ships From - Pennsylvania
Est. Publication Date - Apr 2012
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Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
ISBN: 9780374533403
Publisher Description
A study in the collision between Western medicine and the beliefs of a traditional culture focuses on a hospitalized child of Laotian immigrants whose belief that illness is a spiritual matter comes i...
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Mary
52 book reviews
Jul 21, 2023
I often talk of breadth and depth when I review nonfiction and I thought this was really well balanced between the two. We were given information about Hmong culture and the history of the secret war in Laos, but we also got a really in depth examination of the circumstances surrounding Lia's health...
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Amber
249 book reviews
Jul 27, 2023
I’m so glad that my friend recommended this amazing nonfiction book to me. I was not familiar with the Hmong culture before reading this account of a family’s struggle with America’s medical system. It was a fascinating yet frustrating deep dive into how the clashing of cultures resulted in so many ...
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Didi
12 book reviews
Jul 24, 2023
I really enjoyed the messages in this book. It opens your eyes to cultural differences and the struggles a family faces when being in a country far from home and attempting to navigate a foreign medical system. 4 stars because it is often a slow, dense read.
