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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
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Anne Fadiman
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Farrar Straus & Giroux
Publication date
September 1, 1997
Pages
339
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780374267810
ISBN-10
0374267812
Dimensions
1.25 by 6.50 by 10 in.
Weight
1.40 lbs.
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Original list price
$25.00
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§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
A study in the collision between Western medicine and the beliefs of a traditional culture focuses on a hospitalized child of Laotian immigrants, members of the Hmong tribe, whose belief that illness is a spiritual matter came into conflict with doctors' methods.
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Hardcover
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from Farrar Straus & Giroux (September 1, 1997); titled "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures"
9780374267810 | details & prices | 339 pages | 6.50 × 10.00 × 1.25 in. | 1.40 lbs | List price $25.00
About: Discusses a sick child of Laotian immigrants whose beliefs conflict with Western medicine
About: Discusses a sick child of Laotian immigrants whose beliefs conflict with Western medicine
Paperback
from Farrar Straus & Giroux (April 24, 2012); titled "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures"
9780374533403 | details & prices | 355 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.68 lbs | List price $15.00
from Farrar Straus & Giroux (September 30, 1998)
9780374975807 | details & prices | List price $13.00
from Farrar Straus & Giroux (September 1, 1998); titled "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures"
9780374525644 | details & prices | 352 pages | 6.00 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.68 lbs | List price $15.00
About: Discusses a sick child of Laotian immigrants whose beliefs conflict with Western medicine.
About: Discusses a sick child of Laotian immigrants whose beliefs conflict with Western medicine.
from Farrar Straus & Giroux (September 1, 1998); titled "The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, And The Collision Of Two Cultures"
9789990059649 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.75 lbs | List price $0.02
Miscellaneous
from Farrar Straus & Giroux (September 30, 1997); titled "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures"
9781429931113 | details & prices | 339 pages | List price $9.99
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