{"product_id":"the-spirit-catches-you-and-you-fall-down-a-hmong-child-her-american-doctors-and-the-collision-of-two-cultures","title":"The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures","description":"\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBrief Description\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOriginally published: New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1997.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMarc Notes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOriginally published: New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1997.;Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-340) and index.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPreface -- 1. Birth -- 2. Fish Soup -- 3. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down -- 4. Do Doctors Eat Brains? -- 5. Take as Directed -- 6. High-Velocity Transcortical head Therapy -- 7. Government Property -- 8. Foua and Nao Kao -- 9. A Little Medicine and a Little Neeb -- 10. War -- 11. The Big One -- 12. Flight -- 13. Code X -- 14. The Melting Pot -- 15. Gold and Dross -- 16. Why Did They Pick Merced? -- 17. The Eight Questions -- 18. The Life or the Soul -- 19. The Sacrifice -- Afterword to the Fifteenth Anniversary Edition -- Note on Hmong Orthography, Pronunciation, and Quotations -- Notes on Sources -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Superb, informal cultural anthropology--eye-opening, readable, utterly engaging.\" --\u003ci\u003eCarole Horn, The Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This is a book that should be deeply disturbing to anyone who has given so much as a moment's thought to the state of American medicine. But it is much more . . . People are presented as [Fadiman] saw them, in their humility and their frailty--and their nobility.\" -- \n\u003ci\u003eSherwin B. Nuland, The New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\" \n\u003ci\u003eThe Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down \u003c\/i\u003echanged how doctors see themselves and how they see their patients. Anne Fadiman celebrates the complexity and the individuality of the human interactions that make up the practice of medicine while simultaneously pointing out directions for change and breaking readers' hearts with the tragedies of cultural displacement, medical limitations, and futile good intentions.\" -- \n\u003ci\u003ePerri Klass, M.D., author of A Not Entirely Benign Procedure\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAnne Fadiman was born in New York City and was raised in Connecticut and Los Angeles. After graduating from Harvard, she worked as a wilderness instructor in Wyoming before returning to New York to write. She has been a staff writer at \n\u003ci\u003eLife\u003c\/i\u003e, editor-at-large of \n\u003ci\u003eCivilization\u003c\/i\u003e, and editor of \n\u003ci\u003eThe American Scholar\u003c\/i\u003e. Fadiman is also the author of \n\u003ci\u003eEx Libris \u003c\/i\u003eand \n\u003ci\u003eAt Large and At Small\u003c\/i\u003e, and the editor of \n\u003ci\u003eRereadings\u003c\/i\u003e. She now lives with her family in western Massachusetts and serves as the Francis Writer-in-Residence at Yale.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWhen 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, 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 independent 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Now with a new Afterword from the author \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with severe epilepsy. \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLia's parents and her doctors both wanted what was best for Lia, but the lack of understanding between them led to tragedy. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest, and the Salon Book Award, Anne Fadiman's compassionate account of this cultural impasse is literary journalism at its finest. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e______ \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLia Lee 1982-2012\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLia Lee died on August 31, 2012. She was thirty years old and had been in a vegetative state since the age of four. Until the day of her death, her family cared for her lovingly at home. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eChristian Century\u003c\/span\u003e 10\/14\/2015 pg. 39 (EAN 9780374533403, Paperback)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eWilson Nonfiction Catalog\u003c\/span\u003e 04\/11\/2019 (EAN 9780374533403, Paperback)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eWilson Senior High Catalog\u003c\/span\u003e 04\/11\/2019 (EAN 9780374533403, Paperback)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e 08\/11\/1997 pg. 393 (EAN 9780374267810, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e 08\/01\/1997 pg. 1177 (EAN 9780374267810, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e 09\/15\/1997 pg. 184 (EAN 9780374267810, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/span\u003e 09\/01\/1997 pg. 209 (EAN 9780374267810, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e 10\/19\/1997 pg. 28 (EAN 9780374267810, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eNY Times Notable Bks of Year\u003c\/span\u003e 01\/01\/1997 pg. 76 (EAN 9780374267810, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eLJ Best Books of Year\u003c\/span\u003e 01\/01\/1998 pg. 53 (EAN 9780374267810, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eNY Times Notable Bks of Year\u003c\/span\u003e 01\/01\/1998 pg. 76 (EAN 9780374267810, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/span\u003e 03\/01\/1998 pg. 246 (EAN 9780374267810, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eWilson Nonfiction Catalog\u003c\/span\u003e 04\/11\/2019 (EAN 9780374267810, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eWilson Senior High Catalog\u003c\/span\u003e 04\/11\/2019 (EAN 9780374267810, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eFadiman, Anne\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAnne Fadiman\u003c\/b\u003e is the author, most recently, of the essay collection \n\u003ci\u003eFrog \u003c\/i\u003e(2026) \n\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e Her first book, \n\u003ci\u003e The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down\u003c\/i\u003e (1997), won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Salon Book Award. In 2017, she published \n\u003ci\u003eThe Wine Lover's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e, a memoir about her father. Fadiman has also written two essay collections, \n\u003ci\u003eEx Libris\u003c\/i\u003e and \n\u003ci\u003e At Large and At Small\u003c\/i\u003e, and edited \n\u003ci\u003eRereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love\u003c\/i\u003e. 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