作者:
Anne Fadiman 出版社: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 副标题: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures 出版年: 1998-9-28 页数: 341 定价: USD 15.00 装帧: Paperback ISBN: 9780374525644
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-ru...
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.
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以前我是个理科生，读的书真心少。来到费城之后，我变成了文科生，除了每周300-400面的论文要读之外，竟然还读了好几本闲书。今天上午，我刚刚读完这本The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down。通常说来，我的评价要么是4-5星，要么是1星，但这本书我给的是3星。因为Anna Fa...
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1 有用 Lucy 2011-03-21 03:49:47
记得当时还年少，收到此书在手，新生的common reading，高考也忘了复习，翻开读。记得的只是那时的回忆。
0 有用 [已注销] 2018-04-13 09:46:43
一本关于一个赫蒙族女孩的医疗志，记录了从她出生到癫痫发作到最后进入植物人状态的整个过程。以此为主线，作者描述了西方医学和赫蒙族文化和信仰之间的巨大冲突。Empathy is so hard.
1 有用 贺戟 2024-04-16 13:25:44 美国
人类学课上文献，但并不是标准的民族志，或者说是一本“前民族志”，因为作者并没有给出更深入的分析。但这样的“田野工作”——一段真正拥抱在美苗族、倾听他们的悲剧并矢志不渝地揭示个中权力关系的开放式访谈——与叙述已经胜过太多人类学者。Lia的悲剧背后不简单是跨文化医疗的冲突和误解，更是无国家的族群被迫服从现代国家文明的剧痛。在医疗科学的面纱背后，美国对苗族难民施加的权力并不比老挝、越南更温和，国家机器只... 人类学课上文献，但并不是标准的民族志，或者说是一本“前民族志”，因为作者并没有给出更深入的分析。但这样的“田野工作”——一段真正拥抱在美苗族、倾听他们的悲剧并矢志不渝地揭示个中权力关系的开放式访谈——与叙述已经胜过太多人类学者。Lia的悲剧背后不简单是跨文化医疗的冲突和误解，更是无国家的族群被迫服从现代国家文明的剧痛。在医疗科学的面纱背后，美国对苗族难民施加的权力并不比老挝、越南更温和，国家机器只是在用更“现代”且更具迷惑性的方式摧毁一个文化的灵魂。然而当一个个生活的悲剧降临，我们很难找到制高点指责任意主体。MCMC医生的治疗造成了Lia败血症的扩散，但就像作者不断自问的，如果在最初有一场平等的交流，能让李家接受抗惊厥药物，事情会不会走向另一面？在上述剧痛得到根除之前，这个问题不会有答案。 (展开)
0 有用 曼 2013-02-11 21:42:38
"Maybe doctor just want to study me, not help my problems." 苗家人在美国看病~
2 有用 fay 2011-06-29 05:51:48
ridiculously amazing