Nonfiction Book Group discusses "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down”

May 26, 2019

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The Nonfiction Book Group will discuss "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures" by Anne Fadiman on June 20 at 6:30 p.m. A study in the collision between Western medicine and the beliefs of a traditional culture focuses on a hospitalized child of Laotian immigrants, members of the Hmong tribe, whose belief that illness is a spiritual matter came into conflict with doctors' methods. 

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Event Date: 

Thursday, June 20, 2019 - 6:30pm

Event Location: 

Joseph H Plumb Memorial Library

Contact Phone: 

(508) 763-8600