Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

Cover Art for 9780374533403, Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
ISBN: 9780374533403
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Published: 1 September, 2012
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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A study in the collision between Western medicine and the beliefs of a traditional culture focuses on a hospitalized child of Laotian immigrants whose belief that illness is a spiritual matter comes into conflict with doctors' methods.

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