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000354198 1001_ $$aFadiman, Anne,$$d1953-
000354198 24514 $$aThe spirit catches you and you fall down :$$ba Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures /$$cAnne Fadiman.
000354198 250__ $$a1st ed.
000354198 260__ $$aNew York :$$bFarrar, Straus, and Giroux,$$cc1997.
000354198 300__ $$axi, 339 p. ;$$c25 cm.
000354198 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000354198 5050_ $$aBirth -- Fish soup -- The spirit catches you and you fall down -- Do doctors eat brains? -- Take as directed -- High-velocity transcortical lead therapy -- Government property -- Foua and Nao Kao -- A little medicine and a little neeb -- War -- The big one -- Flight -- Code X -- The melting pot -- Gold and dross -- Why did they pick Merced? -- The eight questions -- The life or the soul -- The sacrifice.
000354198 520__ $$aWhen three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would ever recover. Lia's parents, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced, refugees from the CIA-run "Quiet War" in Laos. The Hmong, traditionally a close-knit and fiercely people, have been less amenable to assimilation than most immigrants, adhering steadfastly to the rituals and beliefs of their ancestors. Lia's pediatricians, Neil Ernst and his wife, Peggy Philip, cleaved just as strongly to another tradition: that of Western medicine. When Lia Lee entered the American medical system, diagnosed as an epileptic, her story became a tragic case history of cultural miscommunication. Parents and doctors both wanted the best for Lia, but their ideas about the causes of her illness and its treatment could hardly have been more different. The Hmong see illness and healing as spiritual matters linked to virtually everything in the universe, while medical community marks a division between body and soul, and concerns itself almost exclusively with the former. Lia's doctors ascribed her seizures to the misfiring of her cerebral neurons; her parents called her illness, qaug dab peg--the spirit catches you and you fall down--and ascribed it to the wandering of her soul. The doctors prescribed anticonvulsants; her parents preferred animal sacrifices.
000354198 650_0 $$aTranscultural medical care$$zCalifornia$$vCase studies.
000354198 650_0 $$aHmong American children$$xMedical care$$zCalifornia.
000354198 650_0 $$aHmong Americans$$xMedicine.
000354198 650_0 $$aIntercultural communication.
000354198 650_0 $$aEpilepsy in children.
000354198 85200 $$bgen$$hRA418.5.T73$$iF33$$i1997
000354198 85642 $$3Contributor biographical information$$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol056/97005175.html
000354198 85642 $$3Publisher description$$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol055/97005175.html
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