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 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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The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence: Introduced Infectious Diseases and Population Decline Among Northwest Coast Indians, 1774-1874

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Release: 1999-10
Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0295978376
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In the late 1700s, when Euro-Americans began to visit the Northwest Coast, they reported the presence of vigorous, diverse cultures - among them the Tlingit, Haida, Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl), Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka), Coast Salish, and Chinookans - with a population conservatively estimated at over 180,000. A century later only about 35,000 were left. The change was brought about by the introduction of diseases that had originated in the Eastern Hemisphere, such as smallpox, malaria, measles, and influenza."The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence" examines the introduction of infectious diseases among the Indians of the Northwest Coast culture area (present-day Oregon and Washington west of the Cascade Mountains, British Columbia west of the Coast Range, and southeast Alaska) in the first century of contact and the effects of these new diseases on Native American population size, structure, interactions, and viability. The emphasis is on epidemic diseases and specific epidemic episodes. I Download The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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The Globalization of Addiction: A Study in Poverty of the Spirit Pdf Reviews

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Edition: 1
Release: 2010-04-30
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0199588716
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'The Globalization of Addiction' presents a radical rethink about the nature of addiction.
Scientific medicine has failed when it comes to addiction. There are no reliable methods to cure it, prevent it, or take the pain out of it. There is no durable consensus on what addiction is, what causes it, or what should be done about it. Meanwhile, it continues to increase around the world. This book argues that the cause of this failure to control addiction is that the conventional wisdom of the 19th and 20th centuries focused too single-mindedly on the afflicted individual addict. Although addiction obviously manifests itself in individual cases, its prevalence differs dramatically between societies. For example, it can be quite rare in a society for centuries, and then become common when a tribal culture is destroyed or a highly developed civilization collapses. When addiction becomes commonplace in a society, people become addicted not only to alcohol and drugs, but to a thousand othe Download The Globalization of Addiction for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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