Author Reviews: Anne Fadiman

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).

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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).

When this review was published,Yang was an Internal Medicine/Pediatrics resident at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Affiliated Hospitals.