The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down | Anne Fadiman

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down | Anne Fadiman | comparative cultures gone awry

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The Spirit Catches...

	The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down Anne Fadiman Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 218 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

book review

Very interesting and intriging. A testament to the US health system and the problems that can and will occur

comparative cultures gone awry

my AAUW book group met this morning and it was revealed that this book is being used as a text by very many colleges in their classes to try to help students understand the sometimes impossible task of really communicating with other cultures. it's an indeapth study of the Hmong people from China/Laos and how the medical care of a sick child went awry due to communication and missunderstanding difficulties on both the part of the American doctors and the parents of the child.

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Cultural insight

Wonderful book, really shows the diversity in cultures and interputation of medical practices and errors of judgement.

Great Non-Fiction and Perspective on Hmong Culture

This book is a gripping perspective on Hmong Culture, Medicine and different cultures, and life. My Anthropology Professor used this as a supplement in our course on Ethnicity, Gender, and Class. The author made great strides in presenting the perspectives of all participants in her studies. There are lot of people in the world that believe their culture is superior to another, we really need to break down this communication barrier. I think this book delves into how we understand reality and the processes we take to live within it. Read this, I truly think you will experience a paradigm shift in your outlook on the world and its diversity.

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