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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
by Anne Fadiman
from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
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School Mandated 
I read this book as a requirement of nursing school, but I thoroughly enjoyed it... It will captivate anyone with a heart/soul. I might even read it again later in my career- I really enjoyed the exposure to cultural competence.
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Health care must account for personal cultural beliefs 
I am a PhD student in Sociology and just read this book as a requirement for my assistantship work in a hospital. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down is a very interesting case study of the intersection of the US health care system (including its workers and clinicians) and people of different spiritual and national backgrounds. The US health care system is rigid and believes in a singular biomedical model of medical healing, and this book shows that this view does not allow room to include the... more info
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Must read!
I love this book! It was about a vietnamese immigrants whose daughter had epilepsy. It was a clash of cultures and looks into one major flaw of our healthcare system. The main theme language and cultural barriers that can create roadblocks to getting proper medical care. One feels for these parents and I don't think I could ever be as patient a parent as they were under these difficult circumstances. Highly recommend!!
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Catch the Spirit
Reading this extraordinary book has helped me retrieve a significant part of my soul. A deep gratitude to the author for the tremendous sensitivity, involvement and work required to write such a thorough anatomy of the limits of communication for which the Hmong culture versus the American, and epilepsy versus "normalcy" are such strong metaphors.
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