The Spirit Catches You and You Fall down

书名：The Spirit Catches You and You Fall downAHmongChild,HerAmericanDoctors,andtheCollisionofTwoCultures
作者：AnneFadiman
译者：
ISBN：9780374525644
出版社：Farrar,StrausandGiroux
出版时间：1998-9-28
格式：epub/mobi/azw3/pdf
页数：341
豆瓣评分： 8.2

书籍简介：

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.

作者简介：

安妮·法迪曼（Anne Fadiman）

出身于美国纽约文学世家，1975年毕业于哈佛大学后在怀俄明州担任野外探险向导，后重回纽约写作。目前于耶鲁大学担任驻校作家，所开设的写作课以内涵丰富闻名，深受学生欢迎。2012年获耶鲁大学理查德·布洛德黑德奖之年度卓越教学奖。

法 迪曼除了曾为《生活》杂志撰稿，也担任《文明》和《美国学人》杂志的主编。本书是她的第一本著作，第一次出手便赢得“美国国家书评人协会奖”等众多出版界重要殊荣。此外还出版有《书趣》（Ex Libris）、《闲话大小事》（At Large and At Small）等作品。

书友短评：

@ fay "Ask not what disease the person has, but rather what person the disease has." The prosperity of a country may sometimes has nothing to do with the well-being of an ethnic group. The culture collision is a brutal and prolonged war, generations and generations of stepping stones are the ultimate sacrifice for surviving, adapting and succeeding. @ 📄 https://theworld.org/stories/2012-12-21/lia-lee-disabled-life-changed-face-western-medicine?dt_dapp=1

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