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100 1  Fadiman, Anne,|d1953- 
245 14 The spirit catches you and you fall down :|ba Hmong child,
       her American doctors, and the collison of two cultures /
       |cAnne Fadiman. 
250    Paperback edition. 
264  1 New York :|bFarrar, Straus & Giroux,|c2012. 
264  4 |c©1997 
300    ix, 355 pages ;|c21 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    Reprint. Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus, 
       and Giroux, 1997. 
500    Includes new afterword by the author. 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [327]-340) and 
       index. 
505 0  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. 
520    When 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 proud 
       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. 
650  0 Transcultural medical care|zCalifornia|vCase studies. 
650  0 Hmong American children|xMedical care|zCalifornia. 
650  0 Hmong Americans|xMedicine. 
650  0 Intercultural communication. 
650  0 Epilepsy in children. 
650 12 Child|zLaos|vCase Reports. 
650 12 Epilepsy|zLaos|vCase Reports. 
650 22 Attitude of Health Personnel|zLaos|vCase Reports. 
650 22 Cross-Cultural Comparison|zLaos|vCase Reports. 
650 22 Emigration and Immigration|zLaos|vCase Reports. 
650 22 Infant|zLaos. 
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