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008			970310s1997 nyu b 001 0 eng
010			_a 97005175
020			_a0374267812 (cloth : alk. paper)
035			_a(OCoLC)36597664
035			_a(OCoLC)ocm36597664
035			_a(NNC)2046435
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050	0	0	_aRA418.5.T73 _bF33 1997
082	0	0	_a306.4/61 _221
100	1		_aFadiman, Anne, _d1953-
245	1	4	_aThe spirit catches you and you fall down : _ba Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures / _cAnne Fadiman.
260			_aNew York : _bFarrar, Straus, and Giroux, _c1997.
300			_axi, 341 p. : _c23 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_aContents: 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 of the soul -- The Sacrifice.
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.
520	8		_aParents 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 the medical community marks a division between body and soul, and concerns itself almost exclusively with the former.
520	8		_aLia'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.
520	8		_aThe Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down moves from hospital corridors to healing ceremonies, and from the hill country of Laos to the living rooms of Merced, uncovering in its path the complex sources and implications of two dramatically clashing worldviews.
650		0	_aTranscultural medical care _zCalifornia _vCase studies.
650		0	_aHmong American children _xMedical care _zCalifornia.
650		0	_aHmong Americans _xMedicine.
650		0	_aIntercultural communication.
650		0	_aEpilepsy in children.
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