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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (Author: Anne Fadiman)FISH SOUP audiobook Anne Fadimans The Spirit Catches You And.

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The lowest-priced brand-new, unused, unopened, undamaged item in its original packaging where packaging is applicable. Packaging should be the same as what is found in a retail store, unless the item is handmade or was packaged by the manufacturer in non-retail packaging, such as an unprinted box or plastic bag. See details for additional description. Not many books show and tell in such excellent detail a story about crosscultural interactions, especially within the realm of medicine. In reading the bok it helps bring out any ethnocentric opinions one might have when dealing with other cultures.

It is quickly discovered how different two people can view the world as the author takes the reader into the world of the Hmong, a displaced, abused, proud people. She shows clearly the conflict of them as displaced people in a foreign land with a worldview, which is degrees opposite theirs, as well as showing the frustration and difficulty experieced by the medical professionals in handling the Hmong.

There are always "must reads" out there. I acquired the book for a required reading for first year medical school, and I have to readily sa y that it is a must read for all, because in medicine in this day and age we must all work with cultures quite unlike article source own.

This book opens the eyes to the reality and validity of the views and beliefs of those around us, though worlds apart.

The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down

Upon reading the book you will not be able to view any other culture, including your own, in the same light again. It has been truly humbling to me, someone that has worked on several different continents, among vastly different cultures. Read full review. I bought this book as required reading for a class. As it was winter break, I had time and decided to read it before the class. It was so engaging that I hardly put it down, and I kept wanting to read more even after I had finished it.

It follows the story of a young Hmong girl with epilepsy, Lia Lee, from both the point of view of her doctors and of her family. Her parents were refugees from Laos who immigrated to Merced, California in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. They speak no English and understand very little of US culture, as the Hmong have always lived in the mountains as farmers. They face tremendous difficulty in trying to communicate with the doctors; each side is trying to do what their culture says is best for Lia, but the two are often not compatible, not to mention that neither side can seem to make itself understood.

Anne Fadiman really did her research, seeming to have talked to anyone who had contact with Lia during these troubled years. She explains Hmong culture in a straight-forward, matter-of-fact manner, as she learned it from the Hmong people she came to know as friends.

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She also describes the troubles and even personal health issues of the American doctors who were trying so hard to help Lia. I think Fadiman does justice to both sides, not Fadimanns blame on either, but showing how the vast differences in ways of thinking can lead to such large problems.

She also tells how problems such as these have lead to the American medical industry becoming more open to other cultures' forms of medicine, and learning how to have a happy medium between the two.]