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2025-02-24
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall down 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
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
記得當時還年少,收到此書在手,新生的common reading,高考也忘瞭復習,翻開讀。記得的隻是那時的迴憶。
評分好作者,engaging
評分好作者,engaging
評分ridiculously amazing
評分一本關於一個赫濛族女孩的醫療誌,記錄瞭從她齣生到癲癇發作到最後進入植物人狀態的整個過程。以此為主綫,作者描述瞭西方醫學和赫濛族文化和信仰之間的巨大衝突。Empathy is so hard.
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall down 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載