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''The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures'' is a 1997 book by Anne Fadiman that chronicles the struggles of a Hmong refugee family from Houaysouy, Sainyabuli Province, Laos,〔Fadiman. "Foua and Nao Kao." ''The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down''. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1997. (103 ). "()I asked her to describe a typical day in Houaysouy, the village in the northwestern province of Sayaboury where the Lee family had lived."〕 the Lees, and their interactions with the health care system in Merced, California. In 2005 Robert Entenmann, Ph.D., of St. Olaf College wrote that the book is "certainly the most widely read book on the Hmong experience in America."〔Entenmann, Robert. "(The Myth of Sonom, the Hmong King )." ((Archive )) ''Hmong Studies Journal'', Volume 6, 2005. p. 1. Retrieved on July 11, 2014.〕 On the most basic level, the book tells the story of the family's second youngest and favored daughter, Lia Lee, who was diagnosed with severe epilepsy, and the culture conflict that obstructs her treatment. Through miscommunications about medical dosages and parental refusal to give certain medicines due to mistrust, misunderstandings, and behavioral side effects, and the inability of the doctors to develop more empathy with the traditional Hmong lifestyle or try to learn more about the Hmong culture, Lia's condition worsens. The dichotomy between the Hmong's perceived spiritual factors and the Americans' perceived scientific factors comprises the overall theme of the book. The book is written in a unique style, with every other chapter returning to Lia's story and the chapters in-between discussing broader themes of Hmong culture, customs, and history; American involvement in and responsibility for the war in Laos; and the many problems of immigration, especially assimilation and discrimination. While particularly sympathetic to the Hmong, Fadiman presents the situation from the perspectives of both the doctors and the family. An example of medical anthropology, the book has been cited by medical journals and lecturers as an argument for greater cultural competence, and often assigned to medical, pharmaceutic, and anthropological students in the US. In 1997, it won the National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction.〔(National Book Critics Circle - past awards )〕 ==Research== Fadiman's sources for information about the history of the Hmong include ''Hmong: History of a People'' by Keith Quincy. She stated "Were I citing the source of each detail, Quincy's name would attach itself to nearly every sentence in the pages on the Hmong in China."〔Fadiman, ''The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down'' (September 30, 1998 edition/ISBN 1429931116, 9781429931113), p. (295 ).〕 Fadiman's book cited the Quincy theory that the Hmong people originated from Siberia.〔Pfeifer, Mark E. (Hmong Cultural and Resource Center). "(Overview of Recent Scholarship on Premodern Hmong History )" ((Archive )). ''Hmong Studies Journal'' at ''Hmong Studies Internet Resource Center''. Presentation at the "(“Building on Hmong Women’s Assets: Past, Present, and Future” September 16-17, 2005, St. Paul/Minneapolis, MN )" ((Archive )).〕 Entenmann wrote that because of the reliance on Quincy's book, Fadiman's book propagates the idea that Sonom was a Hmong king, a concept that Entenmann says is inaccurate.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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