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...
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New York :
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux,
c1997
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
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Table of Contents:
- Birth
- Fish soup
- The spirit catches you and you fall down
- Do doctors eat brains?
- Take as directed
- High-velocity transcortical lead therapy
- Government property
- Foua and Nao Kao
- A little medicine and a little neeb
- War
- The big one
- Flight
- Code X
- The melting pot
- Gold and dross
- Why did they pick Merced?
- The eight questions
- The life or the soul
- The sacrifice