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

By: Fadiman, Anne [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012Description: ix, 355 pages.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780374533403.Subject(s): Transcultural medical care -- California -- Case studies | Hmong American children -- Medical care -- California | Intercultural communication
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
Awards: National Book Critics Circle Award
Note(s):
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-340) and index.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-340) and index.

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

National Book Critics Circle Award

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