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.
發表於2025-01-13
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以前我是個理科生,讀的書真心少。來到費城之後,我變成瞭文科生,除瞭每周300-400麵的論文要讀之外,竟然還讀瞭好幾本閑書。今天上午,我剛剛讀完這本The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down。通常說來,我的評價要麼是4-5星,要麼是1星,但這本書我給的是3星。因為Anna Fa...
評分以前我是個理科生,讀的書真心少。來到費城之後,我變成瞭文科生,除瞭每周300-400麵的論文要讀之外,竟然還讀瞭好幾本閑書。今天上午,我剛剛讀完這本The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down。通常說來,我的評價要麼是4-5星,要麼是1星,但這本書我給的是3星。因為Anna Fa...
評分以前我是個理科生,讀的書真心少。來到費城之後,我變成瞭文科生,除瞭每周300-400麵的論文要讀之外,竟然還讀瞭好幾本閑書。今天上午,我剛剛讀完這本The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down。通常說來,我的評價要麼是4-5星,要麼是1星,但這本書我給的是3星。因為Anna Fa...
評分以前我是個理科生,讀的書真心少。來到費城之後,我變成瞭文科生,除瞭每周300-400麵的論文要讀之外,竟然還讀瞭好幾本閑書。今天上午,我剛剛讀完這本The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down。通常說來,我的評價要麼是4-5星,要麼是1星,但這本書我給的是3星。因為Anna Fa...
評分以前我是個理科生,讀的書真心少。來到費城之後,我變成瞭文科生,除瞭每周300-400麵的論文要讀之外,竟然還讀瞭好幾本閑書。今天上午,我剛剛讀完這本The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down。通常說來,我的評價要麼是4-5星,要麼是1星,但這本書我給的是3星。因為Anna Fa...
圖書標籤: 人類學 Hmong 文化 醫學 美國 culture 社會 misunderstanding
寫作是需要錘煉的:“我該怎樣雕刻一尊大衛的塑像?”“這很簡單,”雕塑大師迴答道:“拿一塊大理石,然後鑿掉其中不像大衛的部分。”http://cn.nytimes.com/education/20130518/cc18gaoyuxin/
評分"Maybe doctor just want to study me, not help my problems." 苗傢人在美國看病~
評分"Anna Fadiman是失敗的。她很想要把Hmong人真實的一麵展現給讀者,很希望人們通過“瞭解”從而達到“理解”。但我看到的是一群總是對外界人感到非常憤怒的Hmong。作者提到,Hmong人的反應是很正常的,因為他們不想被美國文化給“同化”(Assimilation)。但是,中國人說“入鄉隨俗”,美國人說“Do as the Romans do”,是Hmong人來到瞭美國,而不是美國人去到瞭老撾。況且,更重要的一點是:作者,以及很多人,都認為美國是一個文化“大熔爐”,在這個“大熔爐”裏,猶太人、西班牙人、墨西哥人、亞洲人等等,都帶來瞭自己的文化,所以說,美國的文化並不是單一的,在這個“大熔爐”裏,每個人都在適應、接受、容忍彆人的文化"
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評分a vivid intro to medical anthropology. the edge where two cultures meet is truly charming
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall down 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載