Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
When 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, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced, refugees from the CIA-run "Quiet War" in Laos. 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, Neil Ernst and his wife, Peggy Philip, 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 aand 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.
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以前我是个理科生，读的书真心少。来到费城之后，我变成了文科生，除了每周300-400面的论文要读之外，竟然还读了好几本闲书。今天上午，我刚刚读完这本The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down。通常说来，我的评价要么是4-5星，要么是1星，但这本书我给的是3星。因为Anna Fa...
评分以前我是个理科生，读的书真心少。来到费城之后，我变成了文科生，除了每周300-400面的论文要读之外，竟然还读了好几本闲书。今天上午，我刚刚读完这本The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down。通常说来，我的评价要么是4-5星，要么是1星，但这本书我给的是3星。因为Anna Fa...
评分以前我是个理科生，读的书真心少。来到费城之后，我变成了文科生，除了每周300-400面的论文要读之外，竟然还读了好几本闲书。今天上午，我刚刚读完这本The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down。通常说来，我的评价要么是4-5星，要么是1星，但这本书我给的是3星。因为Anna Fa...
评分以前我是个理科生，读的书真心少。来到费城之后，我变成了文科生，除了每周300-400面的论文要读之外，竟然还读了好几本闲书。今天上午，我刚刚读完这本The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down。通常说来，我的评价要么是4-5星，要么是1星，但这本书我给的是3星。因为Anna Fa...
评分以前我是个理科生，读的书真心少。来到费城之后，我变成了文科生，除了每周300-400面的论文要读之外，竟然还读了好几本闲书。今天上午，我刚刚读完这本The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down。通常说来，我的评价要么是4-5星，要么是1星，但这本书我给的是3星。因为Anna Fa...
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一本关于一个赫蒙族女孩的医疗志，记录了从她出生到癫痫发作到最后进入植物人状态的整个过程。以此为主线，作者描述了西方医学和赫蒙族文化和信仰之间的巨大冲突。Empathy is so hard.
评分即使是我们认知体系中绝对理性客观的东西，人也很难避免陷入“信则灵”和“不灵则不信”的两极式、宗教式思维窠臼，以及为什么我总是说傻逼的民意也是民意需要被尊重。
评分好作者，engaging
评分misunderstanding torn apart & the down side of western medicine. 对美国民族的自省。
评分一本关于一个赫蒙族女孩的医疗志，记录了从她出生到癫痫发作到最后进入植物人状态的整个过程。以此为主线，作者描述了西方医学和赫蒙族文化和信仰之间的巨大冲突。Empathy is so hard.
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