The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
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Noonday Press |
Asia
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Anno - Date de Parution |
1997 | ||||||||
Pagine - Pages | 341 | ||||||||
Titolo originale | The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures | ||||||||
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Lingua - language - langue | eng | ||||||||
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this brilliantly reported and beautifully crafted book explores the clash between a medical center in California and a Laotian refugee family over their care of a child--and the lack of understanding that led to tragedy.
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