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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
1997 book by Anne Fadiman
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
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 the Lees, a Hmong refugee family from Houaysouy, Sainyabuli province, Laos, and their interactions with the health care system in Merced, California. In 2005, Robert Entenmann of St. Olaf College wrote that the book is "certainly the most widely read book on the Hmong experience in America." 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 a severe form of epilepsy named Lennox–Gastaut syndrome, and the cultural conflict that obstructed her treatment. Miscommunications about medication dosages and parental refusal to administer certain medicines due to mistrust, misunderstandings, and behavioral side effects of epilepsy treatment, along with the failure of healthcare professionals to develop greater empathy for the traditional...
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