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    <body><![CDATA[This is the heartbreaking story of Lia, a Hmong girl with epilepsy in Merced. It is intended to be an ethnography, describing two different cultural approaches to Lia's sickness: her Hmong parents' and her American doctors'.<br/><br/>I have wavered between four and five stars for this one. The boo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4039808">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow.<br/><br/>I loved this book.<br/><br/>I learned a lot, and the story is compelling and well-told. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down" title=" The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down"> The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down</a> is the story of Lia Lee, a Hmong girl living in Merced, California, who began to have epileptic seizures as an infant.  Her parents, recent immigrants, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14581559">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down may read like a documentary (thanks to Fadimanâ€™s journalistic background), but it is really an introspection on the western system of medicine and science.  We cannot ourselves metaphorically stand back and try to look at the system from the outside. Howeve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15712368">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i read this book for a class i am taking called &quot;human behavior and the social environment.&quot; it tells the story of a Hmong family in california with a little girl who has epilepsy. their experience as refugees who are illiterate and unable to speak english, traversing the american medical ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16371758">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fadiman wrote a fascinating and sympathetic story about a culture that couldn't be much farther removed from ours in the West.  It was especially interesting reading it right after Hitchen's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=God Is Not Great" title="God Is Not Great">God Is Not Great</a>, because, theoretically, had there been no religion involved there wouldn't have been a real...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9564031">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I never would have chosen this book to read on my own. So I must thank Eliza for lending it to me. (I now feel like lending/recommending a book proves friendship...)<br/><br/>I didn't know anything about Hmong culture and now I do. This book also taught me about the American medical system - it lo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7046560">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting story that highlights the many cultural differences between Americans and our immigrants (in this case the Hmong culture).  Lia Lee is a Hmong child with severe epilepsy and the American doctors trying to treat her clash over her entire life with her parents, who are also trying to tr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5536751">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is sooo good! I especially like the story of Lina and her family and their struggles. I think the book could have been shorter if they didn't go into so much depth about the interworkings of the social service and medical systems. Yes it's messed up and cultural competency is lacking. I li...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4663950">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazing book. In my work with people with developmental disabilities and epilepsy, I've seen a lot of examples of the disconnect between doctor and patient -- and that's even when both speak a common language and have a common cultural understanding of their roles. This book tells the story of an ex...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43806867">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a fabulous book.  I read it several years ago when we were beginning to learn about the Hmong people coming to California and to our schools.  I reread it last week after reading Fieldwork (and finding out the the tribe of people he writes about is made up) in order to get a better sense of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41221445">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[	Born in 1981, Lia Lee was the daughter of Hmong immigrants new to the United States, who knew little English and little understanding of American culture.  Soon after she was born, Lia starts having seizures that are soon diagnosed as epilepsy. <br/>	The book is the story of Liaâ€™s life, and the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9589997">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Extraordinarily well-researched nonfiction book whose author earnestly sought to understand how a medical tragedy involving a young Hmong girl came to take place.  The chapter about the involvement of the Hmong people in the Vietnam War should be required reading for all Americans, if only because w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5995342">more...</a>]]></body>
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