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The Spirit Catches You

The Spirit Catches You. Pages 50-75. Questions. Why are the Hmong willing to kill themselves for their children? How do you make sense of doctors actually wanting to take their children away from them? (52-53). Questions.

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The Spirit Catches You

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  1. The Spirit Catches You Pages 50-75

  2. Questions • Why are the Hmong willing to kill themselves for their children? How do you make sense of doctors actually wanting to take their children away from them? (52-53)

  3. Questions • “Her mother informed him that she didn’t think you should ever have to give a medicine forever”. … “For them, the crisis was the treatment, not the epilepsy” (53). • What do you see as a greater crisis? Why? If you can’t choose, why do you think the two are so at odds with each other?

  4. Questions, cont • What was the Lee’s view of medicine dosings? For example, read the section on page 56 about the phenobarbital… • What do you think about Neil and Peggy? On the one hand, they were the only doctors to accept medical… see pages 56-7

  5. The Lees also never showed their doctors the kind of deference reflexively displayed by even their most uncooperative American patients. It was as if Neil and Peggy’s four years of medical school, their three years of residency, their awards, their publications, their telephone consultations with neurologists, even the hours they spent in the Merced Public Library reading old National Geographic articles about the Hmong, all counted for nothing.

  6. Explain: “Medicine was religion. Religion was society. Society was medicine” (60). • Relate that to the idea on page 61 about how when a Hmong came in with a stomachache, he might be complaining that the universe was out of balance. • Discuss the racist views on the Hmong on page 73. • What did the Hmong do with the birth control pills in the refugee camps? • Discuss some of the Hmong cultural differences listed on pages 64-65 • What are some of the healthcare differences between the Hmong and Americans? (page 70)

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