Medical, Racist, and Colonial Constructions of Power: Creating the Asian American Patient and the Cultural Citizen in Anne Fadiman’s The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
This essay looks at the values attributed or denied to "culture" (medical culture, history, Southeast Asian refugees, Asian American cultural citizenship) in the care surrounding a Hmong child diagnosedwith spirit loss, according to Hmong interpretation, or epilepsy, as defined by Western...
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Hmong Studies Journal
2005-01-01
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| Series: | Hmong Studies Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://hmongstudies.com/MonicaChiuHSJ5.pdf |