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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
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. 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 the 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. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down moves from hospital corridors to healing ceremonies, and from the hill country of Laos to the living rooms of Merced, uncovering in its path the complex sources and implications of two dramatically clashing worldviews.


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Title of ebook: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
ISBN: 9780374700232
parent-ISBN: 9780374267810
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 288
Published: 09-1997
Released online for download: 09-01-2000
Author of eBook: Fadiman, Anne

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Preface.............................................................ix 1 / Birth............................................................3 2 / Fish Soup.......................................................12 3 / The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down........................20 4 / Do Doctors Eat Brains?..........................................32 5 / Take as Directed................................................38 6 / High-Velocity Transcortical Lead Therapy........................60 7 / Government Property.............................................78 8 / Foua and Nao Kao................................................93 9 / A Little Medicine and a Little Neeb............................106 10 / War...........................................................119 11 / The Big One...................................................140 12 / Flight........................................................154 13 / Code X........................................................171 14 / The Melting Pot...............................................181 15 / Gold and Dross................................................ ... read full excerpt from: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down ebook



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