The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures
by Anne Fadiman
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Hmong Americans, Epilepsy in children, Transcultural medical care, Medical care, Case studies, Medicine, Hmong American children, Intercultural communication, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Case Reports, Epilepsy, Cross-Cultural Comparison, Child, Emigration and Immigration, Attitude of Health Personnel, Geneeskunde, Kulturkonflikt, Volksgeneeskunde, Ärztliche Behandlung, Hmong (asian people), united statesPlaces
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"If Lia Lee had been born in the highlands of northwest Laos, where her parents and twelve of her brothers and sisters were born, her mother would have squatted on the floor of the house that her father had built from ax-hewn planks thatched with bamboo and grass."
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"If Lia Lee had been born in the highlands of northwest Laos, where her parents and twelve of her brothers and sisters were born, her mother would have squatted on the floor of the house that her father had built from ax-hewn planks thatched with bamboo and grass."
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