MARC Record from marc_openlibraries_phillipsacademy

LEADER: 03340cam a2200421Ia 4500
001 2247452
003 NOBLE
005 20150930180609.0
008 010716r19981997nyu b 001 0 eng d
020 $a0374525641 (pbk.) :$c$14.00
035 $a(OCoLC)47352453
040 $aCUI$cCUI$dPGM$dSDD
043 $an-us-ca$aa-ls---
049 $aNSBL
050 4 $aRA418.5.T73$bF33 1998
082 04 $a306.4/61$221
092 $a306.461$bF14s
096 $aWL 385 F145s 1998
100 1 $aFadiman, Anne,$d1953-
245 14 $aThe spirit catches you and you fall down :$ba Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures /$cAnne Fadiman.
246 30 $aHmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures
250 $a1st paperback ed.
260 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c1998, c1997.
300 $aix, 341 p. ;$c21 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [313]-326) and index.
505 0 $aBirth -- Fish soup -- The spirit catches you and you fall down -- Do doctors eat brains? -- Take as directed -- High-velocity transcortical lead therapy -- Government property -- Foua and Nao Kao -- A little medicine and a little neeb -- War -- The big one -- Flight -- Code X -- The melting pot -- Gold and dross -- Why did they pick Merced? -- The eight questions -- The life or the soul -- The sacrifice.
520 $aWhen three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would ever recover. Lia's parents were part of a large Hmong community in Merced. The Hmong, traditionally a close-knit and fiercely people, have been less amenable to assimilation than most immigrants, adhering steadfastly to the rituals and beliefs of their ancestors. Lia's pediatricians cleaved just as strongly to another tradition: that of Western medicine. When Lia Lee entered the American medical system, diagnosed as an epileptic, her story became a tragic case history of cultural miscommunication. Parents and doctors both wanted the best for Lia, but their ideas about the causes of her illness and its treatment could hardly have been more different. The Hmong see illness and healing as spiritual matters linked to virtually everything in the universe, while medical community marks a division between body and soul, and concerns itself almost exclusively with the former. Lia's doctors ascribed her seizures to the misfiring of her cerebral neurons; her parents called her illness, qaug dab peg--the spirit catches you and you fall down--and ascribed it to the wandering of her soul. The doctors prescribed anticonvulsants; her parents preferred animal sacrifices.
650 0 $aTranscultural medical care$zCalifornia$vCase studies.
650 0 $aHmong American children$xMedical care$zCalifornia.
650 0 $aHmong Americans$xMedicine.
650 0 $aIntercultural communication.$0(NOBLE)8845
650 0 $aEpilepsy in children.$0(NOBLE)6137
902 $a120515
919 4 $a31867005097782
998 $b1$c040408$dy$e1$f-$g4
994 $aX0$bNSB
901 $a2247452$bIII$c2247452$tbiblio
852 4 $agaaagpl$bPANO$bPANO$cStacks 4$j306.4 F12SP$gbook$p31867005097782$y22.00$t1$xnonreference$xholdable$xcirculating$xvisible$zAvailable