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By Anne Fadiman. 339 pp. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997. $24. ISBN 0-374-26781-2.

In The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman tells the story of a Hmong family's experience with the American health care system and highlights many of the weaknesses of what some describe as the best health care system in the world. Fadiman writes beautifully and weaves the story of the Lees, their doctors, and the social and political history of the Hmong people and their unwilling immigration to the United States into a book that is difficult to put down once started. The Spirit Catches You will appeal to anyone interested in the culture of medicine and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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