Anagha’s Reviews > The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures > Status Update

This book has been on my to-read for a long time and when it was on the recommended reading list for medical school, I finally pulled the trigger. Fadiman, in this book, manages to pull off the nearly impossible-she presents the difficult case of a young Hmong child whose parents and doctors have very different perspectives on the causes and cures of her illness in a way that makes you deeply empathize with both sid