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Anne Fadiman - The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this brilliantly reported and beautifully crafted book explores the clash between a medical center in California and a Laotian refugee family over their care of a child--and the lack of understanding that led to tragedy.
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| Key Information | |
| Authors | Anne Fadiman |
| Nonfiction Category | Literary Criticism • Medical • Social Science |
| Nonfiction Subcategory | Anthropology / Cultural • Asian / General • Ethnology • Health Policy • Hmong Americans • Epilepsy In Children |
| Awards | 1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, 1997 National Book Critics Circle Award, 1998 Boston Book Review Award |
| Professional Reviews | |
| Professional Reviews | Kirkus: "A brilliant study in cross-cultural medicine.", New Yorker: "[Fadiman] describes with extraordinary skill the colliding worlds of Western medicine and Hmong culture...yet she remains exquisitely attuned to the interconnectedness of things.", Washington Post Book World: "Fadiman's book is superb, informal cultural anthropology - eye-opening, readable, utterly engaging.", Bernstein, Richard, New York Times: "Ms. Fadiman tells her story with a novelist's grace, playing the role of cultural broker, comprehending those who do not comprehend each other and perceiving what might have been done or said to make the outcome different. She has read widely in the anthropological literature on the Hmong....[T]he value of Ms. Fadiman's book is its clarity about just how vast is the difference between Hmong animism and Western science. Her story is a gripping and poignant one at the center of which is an exceedingly likable and honorable family, the Lees, whose love for their afflicted daughter is wondrously unconditional but whose superstitious world view maintains an iron grip on their minds." |
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