The spirit catches you and you fall down : a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures /
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, refug...
Saved in:
Main Author: | Fadiman, Anne, 1953- |
---|---|
Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
New York :
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux,
c1997
|
Edition: | 1st ed |
Subjects: | |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Similar Items
-
Indochinese refugees : hearing before the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, second, April 26, 1994
Published: (1994) -
Health care crisis : problems of cost and access for children of color : hearing before the Task Force on Human Resources of the Committee on the Budget, House of Representatives, One hundred first Congress, second session, November 19, 1990
Published: (1991) -
Advisory Commission on Epilepsy and its Consequences : hearing before the Subcommittee on Public Health and Environment of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-third Congress, second session, on H.R. 13405 (and all identical bills) ... August 12, 1974
Published: (1974) -
Unequal racial access to kidney transplantation /
by: Ayres, Ian
Published: (1991) -
Advisory Commission on Epilepsy and its Consequences : hearing before the Subcommittee on Public Health and Environment of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-third Congress, second session on H.R. 13405 (and all identical bills), bills to provide for the establishment of a national advisory commission to develop a national plan for the control of epilepsy and its consequences, August 12, 1974.
Published: (1974)