Saturday, July 19, 2008

3 - The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

(21) Hmong with epilepsy often made healers: "The fact that they have been ill themselves gives them an intuitive sympathy for the suffering of others and lends them emotional credibility as healers."

(21-2) Fadiman has found many accounts of people - missionaries, ethnographers, anthropologists - studying the Hmong, a hidden-away people. On pgs 18-9 she even quotes what sounds like a hard-to-find text

(22) only one person at the hospital - a social worker - asked the Lees what they thought - they said the spirit caused it

(26) after recapping the hospital story and interpreter problems - we begin with Lia's first emergency room visit - a misdiagnosis

(26 Dr.'s "interest still exceeds his knowledge."

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