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Author Fadiman, Anne, 1953-

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

Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.

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 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  306.461 FAD    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  306.4 F c.2  Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  306.4 FAD    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  306.461 FAD    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  306.461 F145SA    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Faxon Branch - Non Fiction  306.461 FADIMAN    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Library Office  306.461 FADIMAN    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  306.461 FADIMAN c.8  Check Shelf
 Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department  306.461 FAD    Check Shelf
Edition First paperback edition.
Description ix, 341 pages ; 21 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-326) and index.
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.
Subject Transcultural medical care -- California -- Case studies.
Hmong American children -- Medical care -- California.
Hmong Americans -- Medicine.
Intercultural communication.
Epilepsy in children.
Epilepsy.
Child.
Cross-Cultural Comparison.
Emigration and Immigration -- Laos.
Attitude of Health Personnel.
ISBN 0374525641
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