Sweet, I will definitely pick them up. Have you ever read Twice Dead by Margaret Locke, And the Band Played On by Randly Shilts, or The Spirit Catches you and then you fall down by Anne Fadiman? They are so good. I had to read them for my medical anthropology class.
Locke's book is about organ transplants (it is also a cultural comparison of how societies/cultures look at donation of organs), Shilts book is about AIDS in the late 70s and 80s (there was an HBO movie made on this book as well) and Fadiman's book is about a Hmong child who has a severe form of epliepsy but her parents and people believed it to be something else all together. While the child's condition worsened (because her parents did not give her medications) a cultural rift because on what to do for the child. Since they were in the US western medicine would cure or keep the condition under control but culturally to the Hmong her condition was the spirit who catches you and then you fall down. It was a good book. I highly recommend it. I has been ages since I last read it so my synopsis may be a little vague and inaccurate. Just look at this site if you want more info: http://www.spiritcatchesyou.com/bookdescription.htm
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Date: 2008-08-01 02:28 am (UTC)Locke's book is about organ transplants (it is also a cultural comparison of how societies/cultures look at donation of organs), Shilts book is about AIDS in the late 70s and 80s (there was an HBO movie made on this book as well) and Fadiman's book is about a Hmong child who has a severe form of epliepsy but her parents and people believed it to be something else all together. While the child's condition worsened (because her parents did not give her medications) a cultural rift because on what to do for the child. Since they were in the US western medicine would cure or keep the condition under control but culturally to the Hmong her condition was the spirit who catches you and then you fall down. It was a good book. I highly recommend it. I has been ages since I last read it so my synopsis may be a little vague and inaccurate. Just look at this site if you want more info: http://www.spiritcatchesyou.com/bookdescription.htm
have a good evening!!!!