Healing by Heart: Clinical and Ethical Case Stories of Hmong Families and Western Providers Pdf

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Edition: 1
Release: 2003-10-01
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0826514316
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Healing by Heart pdf
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Healing by Heart is a book of stories--stories of people's search for culturally responsive health care from U.S. providers. It offers resources to providers and institutions committed to delivering culturally responsive health care, paying special attention to building successful relationships with traditional Hmong patients and families. It makes available extensive information about the health-related beliefs, practices, and values of the Hmong people, including photographs of traditional healing methods.

Ranging in age from young infants to older adults, the patients in the stories present a wide range of health problems. The clinicians are from family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, emergency medicine, surgery, obstetrics-gynecology, psychiatry/psychology, and hospice.

Each of the fourteen case stories is accompanied by discussion questions as well as two or three commentaries. The commentaries--written by patients, family members, shaman, Western clinician Download Healing by Heart for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

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Edition: 1
Release: 2012-04-24
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0374533407
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down pdf
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with severe epilepsy. Lia's parents and her doctors both wanted what was best for Lia, but the lack of understanding between them led to tragedy. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest, and the Salon Book Award, Anne Fadiman's compassionate account of this cultural impasse is literary journalism at its finest. The current edition, published for the book's fifteenth anniversary, includes a new afterword by the author that provides updates on the major characters along with reflections on how they have changed Fadiman's life and attitudes.Lia Lee was born in 1981 to a family of recent Hmong immigrants, and soon developed symptoms of epilepsy. By 1988 she was living at home but was brain dead after a tragic cycle of misunderst Download The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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Edition: 9th
Release: 2011-08-16
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 1605477087
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Nursing Research pdf
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Winner of a 2011 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award!
Tthe 9th edition has been completed updated.  The authors continue to maintain up-to-date content and  present state-of-the-art methods for conducting high-quality studies. Each chapter has a plethora of important tools for students Careful reading and critique of actual case studies Template documents that gives students a starting point to adapt – giving students a head start! Examples of NINR Grant application documents Crosswords, Study Questions, Applications, and associated tools Download Nursing Research for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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