The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

On page 290 Fadiman explains how she was affected by Lia’s story not only as a person, who has never experience the difficulties of a language barrier, but also as a writer. As Fadiman wrote the memoir The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down where a Hmong girl named Lia suffered the consequences of the cultural barrier between doctors and people while it was meant for doctors and people from other cultures, the story had affected her and as she said “her life as a writer”…

up of many different cultures and it would not be how it is today without these different cultures. Some cultures believe they are superior to others and this results in cultural differences and barriers. In Anne Fadiman’s book, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, she explains cultural barriers that can develop through cultural differences, when one culture enters into another culture’s area. Fadiman writes about the Hmong culture entering the United States and evaluates their cultural…

American doctors. It becomes very hard to communicate not only because of a distinct language barrier, but also a cultural barrier. Many cultures approach situations in different ways, especially in regard to medical care. The book, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, by Anne Fadiman, is a story about a Hmong family who seeks treatment in the United States for their daughter Lia. The Lees family adapts to the Americanized way of transportation and dress, but they find it very difficult to…

“The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down,” a book written by Anne Fadiman. It is important when treating a patient to understand the cultural differences that you have and still be able to find a way to effectively treat the patient, while still respecting their cultural beliefs. An example of this in Fadiman’s book is when Foua, on of the main characters , has one of her babies in the hospital for the first time. Many Hmong believe that having cold food after giving birth is not good for you…

decisions. Two of the biggest influences that can determine a person’s health literacy are culture and education. In “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down” by Anne Fadiman and “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot, there are many displays of how the roles of culture and education impact the lives of these two ethnic families. In “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down” the effects of culture and education has an adverse effect on Lia Lee’s, the central character, life. …

proceed with medical treatment is vital, but when these cultural differences interfere with the preservation of life and the public health, a balance must be struck between a respect for other cultures and societal well-being. In The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Lia Lee, who suffered from a serious form of epilepsy, faced obstacles in her treatment not only because of the doctors’ lack of complete understanding as to her condition, but her parents’ resistance to the actions of the…

Social Justice And Health Reading Tracy Kidder’s, Mountains beyond Mountains, and Anne Fadiman’s, The Spirit Catches you and you Fall Down, gives a special meaning to health justice, it is a right for all humans to have access to good health care, as it is intrinsic to a high quality of life. The disparity of health care within countries of lower socio-economic status is decreasing, but access to formidable care is unfortunately not improving. Suitable access to good health is a basic human…

In the book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down it goes over the beginning of the life of Lia Lee. She is a young Hmong child who has unfortunately been born with epilepsy. The family had come to America to escape the tyranny going on back home where they had been forced out of their homes. When arriving they already had kids and they kept having more and more. Lia was one of the last born, or at least for a while. Later they had a child. Even though according to the doctors that it was a…

Anne Fadiman’s The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down recounts the hardships of the Lees, a Hmong refugee family from Laos, with the Western/American healthcare system in Merced, California in treating their daughter, Lia, who has epilepsy. Nao Kao and Foua, the parents, believe Lia has a condition called “quag dab peg”, which translates to “the spirit catches you and you fall down.” This is a condition that is well esteemed and honored in Hmong culture because it suggests that the person…

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down By Anne Fadiman Mid-Term Paper The spirit catches you and you fall down, by Anne Fadiman story talks about the cultural differences between Hmong and American cultures regarding medical professional problems for Hmong child 's name Lia with epilepsy. Hmong people have their own ways to treat by tvix neeb. They believe that people get sick due to ‘deb’, which means bad soul and the soul was flee. Starting with Lia’s birth, she was different than her other…