Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, And The Collision Of Two Cultures
by Fadiman, Anne
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- VG In Wraps. Pages Clean & Tight. Pages: 355.
- ISBN 10
- 0374533407
- ISBN 13
- 9780374533403
- Seller
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Vancouver, Washington, United States
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Synopsis
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures is a 1997 book by Anne Fadiman that chronicles the struggles of a Hmong refugee family and their interactions with the health care system in Merced, California. On the most basic level, the book tells the story of the girl Lia Lee, who is diagnosed with severe epilepsy, and the culture conflict that obstructs her treatment.
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- Vintage-Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- MASTER347309I
- Title
- Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, And The Collision Of Two Cultures
- Author
- Fadiman, Anne
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback.
- Book Condition
- Used - VG In Wraps. Pages Clean & Tight. Pages: 355.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0374533407
- ISBN 13
- 9780374533403
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus And Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2012
- Keywords
- Biography, Laotian Immigrants, Epileptic Children, Epilepsy, Medical Memoirs
- Bookseller catalogs
- ASIA;
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- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Trade Paperback
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.