339 pages
English language
Published Feb. 4, 1997 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
The The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
A Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures
by Anne Fadiman
Subjects
- Lee, Lia
- Hmong.
- Merced Community Medical Center (CA).
- Child
- Epilepsy
- Asian Americans
- Attitude
- Communication
- Complementary Therapies
- Cultural Diversity
- Disease
- Home Care Services
- Medicine, Traditional
- Parent-Child Relations
- Patient Care
- Patient Compliance
- Persistent Vegetative State
- Physicians
- Professional-Family Relations
- Professional-Patient Relations
- Religion
- Social Values
- Attitude of Health Personnel
- Cross-Cultural Comparison
- Emigration and Immigration
- Infant
- Family Relations
- Hospitals
- Labor, Obstetric
- Nurses
- Social Work
- Treatment Refusal
- Vietnam Conflict
- Laos
- California
- United States