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...
用户评价
misunderstanding torn apart & the down side of western medicine. 对美国民族的自省。
评分"Anna Fadiman是失败的。她很想要把Hmong人真实的一面展现给读者，很希望人们通过“了解”从而达到“理解”。但我看到的是一群总是对外界人感到非常愤怒的Hmong。作者提到，Hmong人的反应是很正常的，因为他们不想被美国文化给“同化”（Assimilation）。但是，中国人说“入乡随俗”，美国人说“Do as the Romans do”，是Hmong人来到了美国，而不是美国人去到了老挝。况且，更重要的一点是：作者，以及很多人，都认为美国是一个文化“大熔炉”，在这个“大熔炉”里，犹太人、西班牙人、墨西哥人、亚洲人等等，都带来了自己的文化，所以说，美国的文化并不是单一的，在这个“大熔炉”里，每个人都在适应、接受、容忍别人的文化"
评分记得当时还年少，收到此书在手，新生的common reading，高考也忘了复习，翻开读。记得的只是那时的回忆。
评分"Maybe doctor just want to study me, not help my problems." 苗家人在美国看病~
评分Collision. 文化的碰撞让我发现许多差异，这些观察是我内心反应的反应物，而产物是由这些外在的差异催生出的自己的价值观。所有外在的事物，最终会回到内心。外在的冲击让我意识到什么对我而言是重要的。
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