The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: Reviews
Bigby, JudyAnn. "Book Review: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures."
The New England Journal of Medicine 339, no. 5 (July 30, 1998).
http://www.nejm.org/content/1998/0339/0005/0354a.asp
Bigby is an MD at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA.
Boffman, June L. Harney. "Reply from Merced County: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down." Pediatric Nursing 24, no. 2 (March-April 1998): 171.
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Eisdorfer, Erica. "Erica's NPR Picks." The Bull's Head Bookshop website. Autumn 1998.
http://www.store.unc.edu/bullshead/eaut98.html
Eisdorfer is Manager of the UNC-Chapel Hill Bull's Head Bookshop.
Konner, Melvin. "Take Only as Directed." The New York Times Book Review, 19 October 1997.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/10/19/reviews/971019.19konnert.htmls
Konner teaches anthropology at Emory University and is the author of Becoming a Doctor and The Tangled Wing.
Lee, Mai Na M. "Book Review: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down." WWW Hmong Homepage.
http://www.hmongnet.org/publications/spirit_review.html
Mark, David H. "Culture and Medicine: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of wo Cultures." Journal of the American Medical Association 279, nol 6 (February 11, 1998): 477.
http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v279n6/ffull/jbk0211-1.html
David Mark, MD and MPH, is a Contributing Editor at JAMA.
Newman, Robert D. "Book Reviews and Other Media: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down." Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine 154, no. 12 (December 2000): 1277.
http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/issues/v154n12/ffull/pbk1200-1.html
Newman is a Senior Fellow-Trainee and Acting Instructor in Pediatrics at the University of Washington.
Piker, Linda. "Book Description: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down." University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center. Kentucky Public Health Leadership Institute. Leadership Bookclub. 1999.
http://www.mc.uky.edu/kphli/Scholar%20Reviews/Scholar%20Review%20The%20Spirit%20Catches%20you%20then%20you%20fall%20down/Piker%20on%20The%20Spirit%20Catches%20you%20then%20you%20Fall%20Down.htm
Piker is a Kentucky Public Health Leadership Institute Scholar.
Sobsey, Dick. "A Review of Anne Fadiman's: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down." Developmental Disabilities Bulletin 26, no. 2 (1998).
http://www.quasar.ualberta.ca/ddc/ddb/fadimanBR.html
Sobsey is a professor in the Educational Psychology Department at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Yang, Yeng M. "Practicing Modern Medicine: 'A little
medicine, a little neeb'." Hmong Studies Journal 2, no. 2 (Spring 1998).
http://members.aol.com/hmongstudiesjrnl/HSJ-v2n2_Yang_Frames.html
When this review was published,Yang was an Internal Medicine/Pediatrics resident at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Affiliated Hospitals.
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